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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Bad Company

There's nothing worse than getting your hopes up about a New Year's Eve celebration, only to have them dashed by bad company, poor taste or cheap champagne. Sure, you could prop yourself in front of the tele in your daggy pyjamas and watch the ... ... lending company, said it sold $1 billion of convertible securities and $2 billion of common stock, raising more money than it had expected to pay off bad derivatives bets. Sallie Mae sold common stock at $19.65 a share, equal to the company's closing ... Freddie Mac also said it might slice in half its quarterly dividend of 50 cents per share, its first dividend cut since becoming a public company in 1989. That double dose of bad news sent Freddie Mac's shares skidding 28.7 percent to $26.74, the ... Company Bond Sales Fall in Europe for the First Year Since 2002 By Steve Rothwell Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Corporate bond sales ... I've been in this business for 20 years and never seen anything as bad as this,'' said Eirik Winter, co-head of fixed ... It's something the company has struggled to build from within. A series of bad bets in the investment banking unit triggered a 32 percent drop in companywide profits in the third quarter, leading Lewis to ax 3,000 jobs and launch a strategic review ... Bad news takes toll on markets ... The Russell 2,000 index of smaller-company stocks tumbled 23.52 points, or 3%, to 773.51. Declining issues outnumbered advancers ... Tonight at Riverside Cafe (ªe©¤¯d¨¥), the veteran studio musicians of RAY Band (¹p¼Ö¶¤) play their own power rock originals and cover rock 'n' roll greats like Deep Purple, Bad Company, Jeff Beck, The Beatles and Stevie Wonder. Tomorrow ... Without giving specifics, the company said the bad loans were mostly in real estate, "primarily driven by exposures in the Maryland and Northern Virginia areas." In his discussion with financial analysts yesterday, Wachovia's Thompson said fourth ... At Sanyo Electric, it’s gone from bad to worse. The Japanese electronics and appliance company’s stock dropped to an 11-month low after yesterday’s announcement that the company had restated six years’ worth of earnings. Sanyo had previously ... The company filed its suit in late November. "The county acted in bad faith," adopting what the lawsuit contends were last-minute changes in county regulations "specifically designed for the purpose of defeating the plaintiff's proposed project ...
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