The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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Album: Avant Garde
Headed by Brazilian chef Felipe Bronze, the avant-garde dining room conjures up imaginative presentations of ingenious homemade pastas and even Peking Duck. For those in search of the best, Latin America's only outpost of Cipriani can be found back ... Otte died on Tuesday after a long illness, Radio Bremen, whose music department he led from 1959 to 1984, said in a brief statement on its Web site. It did not specify the cause of death. Otte, born Dec. 3, 1926 in the eastern German town of Plauen ... Enjoy the beauty of the Wylliams/Henry Danse Theatre of Kansas City, Mo., followed by a laser light show. The show will spotlight a collection of repertory works ranging from contemporary classics to the avant-garde. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Sunday and 9 ... Madonna's directorial debut has been selected for the lineup at the Berlin International Film Festival. Filth and Wisdom , starring Richard E Grant, will be premiered at the festival in February 2008 in the avant-garde Panorama section. Euguen Hutz ... The program, led by music director Christoph Eschenbach, will feature selections from Joel's pop repertoire, as well as classical and avant garde selections. Joel and Eschenbach will be joined by Blue Man Group, whose work can best be described as ... ... the lowest-denominator pandering of Hollywood. Jonathan Rosenbaum, to cite a critic with nearly an opposite orientation, has spent a lifetime championing the most ambitious strains of auteur cinema, where mainstream film brushes against avant-garde ... Aiming to portray the pristine and virginal wedding dress in a new light is a group of avant-garde professional wedding photographers and makeup artists led by Ems Chua of Van Goth Photography. Last September they held a photography session that ... Britain’s No. 3 political party has turned to avant-garde musician Brian Eno to make their policies sound as good as the albums he produced for U2, David Bowie and Talking Heads. But he caused a stir Thursday in his first interview since being ... Like most teenagers he soon fled, moving to New York in 1970 to study at the Rhode Island School of Design (David Byrne of Talking Heads was a fellow student), where he encountered the film work of such avant-garde pioneers as Stan Brakhage and Jonas ... Longtime collaborator Mark Bell and producer Timbaland keep her electro sound appropriately avant-garde. 4. Queens of the Stone Age's "Era Vulgaris." Frontman Josh Homme's methodology is hard to beat. He puts melodic sheen on his weighty sound and ...
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