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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Badfinger
The well-traveled, gritty-sweet Howes recalls Robin Zander of Cheap Trick, Matthew Sweet and Badfinger all at once - poignant, rocking and catchy. Originally from Mulberry, he has acquired a cult following among power-pop fans. Come hear why. St ... If ever there were a band that represented the popular heights and resounding depths of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, it's Badfinger. Coming together in the early '70s, the band benefited from its association with the Beatles (Paul McCartney wrote ... He was in the booth for Meat Loaf's seminal "Bat Out of Hell" album, XTC's "Skylarking, and produced a good portion of Badfinger's great set "Straight Up." Now that I mention 'em, neither XTC nor Badfinger are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They ... He'd been into Badfinger, particularly "Day After Day." That its guitarist-author Pete Ham committed suicide a few years after that song hit wasn't lost on Doug. No, that song had more truth because of it. He wanted a song that profound, a longing that ... The 60-second spot uses Badfinger's hit "Day After Day," and the lyrics work surprisingly well: "I remember finding out about you," "I give my love to you," and "Bring it home, baby, make it soon." . . . Among those spotted at yesterday's C's game ... Also appearing Joey Molland's Badfinger. Proceeds benefit ARC. The Marshall Tucker Band, Dec. 29. Tickets are $20. Doors open 7 p.m., show at 8. 24th season Birdcage Theatre The Sugar Bean Sisters, a comedy by Nathan Sanders. Play dates: November 9 ... Badfinger started snapping while watching Flamenco dancers on television when he was 4. "I didn't know they were playing castanets," Badfinger said in a press release. "I thought they were snapping their fingers, so I started trying to sound like them Harry Nilsson covered Badfinger's 'Without You' in 1971, then in 1993 Mariah Carey brings this love song back to life, An incredible live performance. The year was 1945, the movie 'The Naughty Nineties.' This movie has the best performance of 'Who's ... Among the psychedelic and experimental bands taking part are Midstates as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Plane as Blondie, The Bon Mots as Badfinger, Star as Guided by Voices, Theory Anesthetic as Neutral Milk Hotel, Darling as The Misfits and LMNOP as ... Since moving to the Twin Cities in 1998, Dee has been an in-demand session musician, producer and writer, doing sessions for top local and national artists such as Soul Asylum, Jonny Lang, The Proclaimers, Joey Molland (Badfinger), Robby Vee and ...
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