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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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Baaba Maal
What can we learn from the artist and activist, Baaba Maal, whose prophetic song, Olel, not only preaches unity but also inspired the likes of the Lions of Teranga to lift the Africa Cup of Nations for the people of Senegal? “Political leaders shake ... Live Earth South Africa will feature the following acts live on stage: ANGELIQUE KIDJO, BAABA MAAL, DANNY K, JOSS STONE, THE PARLOTONES, THE SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR, UB40, VUSI MAHLASELA, ZOLA More News for UB40 Preview and Purchase UB40 music UB40 Tour ... Jul. 30 - Senegalese singer Baaba Maal says technology is helping African artists gain new audiences. Maal spoke to Reuters Technology Correspondent Matt Cowan at the UK World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) festival prior to taking to the stage for ... Africa's Baaba Maal and Tinariwen, Hungary's Muszikas, Asia's Huun Huur Tu. With the shuttering of HotHouse, Old Town's role in bringing world-class performers to Chicago can't be overestimated. But the event I'll remember most about Old Town is the ... Born in Germany and long based in New York, jazz guitarist Leni Stern has become a major force in West African music. A regular presence in Senegal and Mali in recent years, she has collaborated with international stars such as Baaba Maal, Youssou N ... Write this down: “Senegal,” by the great African singer Baaba Maal. Talk about the gift of music. This package has a DVD documentary, a booklet, a National Geographic chart that would qualify you to teach a social studies class on West Africa ... For this effort, the band worked with producer Justin Adams and sound engineer Ben Findlay, the latter of whom has worked with Peter Gabriel and Baaba Maal. Alhousseyni notes that the band’s production team helped to create a large sound ... Where else, after all, are you likely to find the world premiere of a major symphonic work (Ronald Stevenson's Ben Dorain), an ex-Rolling Stone (Bill Wyman), a world music megastar (Baaba Maal), hot young Americana dudes (Chris Thile's Punch Brothers ... Under the Africa Express banner, Damon Albarn had helped to assemble a revolving door “super-jam” in which musicians such as Amadou & Mariam, Baaba Maal, Tinariwen, Hard-Fi, the Specials and Rachid Taha played their songs, each other’s songs ... Back in June, a tent full of mostly middle-aged bookish types became a temporary party site, with everyone up to the most unlikely starch-collared men and tweed-skirted women dancing in the aisles to the sound of Baaba Maal's irresistible stage show ...
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