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: Bag Of Tricks
After more than a decade as the San Francisco Symphony's music director, Michael Tilson Thomas just keeps pulling new surprises and wonders out of his musical bag of tricks. He did it again in Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night with the first ... This was no mean feat, considering that Apple's CEO and pitchman extraordinaire had to follow last year's spectacular iPhone launch with a much less impressive bag of tricks. But he managed to prove that Apple has turned the corner from also-ran ... However, as I've outlined in past reports, while adding applications processing to its bag of tricks opens new opportunities, it also exposes SiRF to new risks--not literally placing it in an “all or none” category, but clearly much closer to ... At press time, Paisley had already reached into his bag of tricks and turned "Mr. Policeman" into some of the funky, twisted guitar he's known to mix in during his live shows. He dedicated "Mud on the Tires" to "all you Montana rednecks that can't ... Walker poured in 19 of his game-high 33 in the second half, dipping into his bag of tricks by slicing into the lane and hitting from outside — a different tune for the University of Florida signee, at least for this season. Walker came into Friday's ... It is built with hidden compartments, sliding shelves, boxes and other special devices that help with the tricks. Red Baron's ... I own an embossed picture of a little boy wearing a big hat and is holding a bag of golf clubs. The picture is 8 by 10 ... The counselor's only bag of tricks was to repeatedly tell Debbie that if she ate everything as prescribed she wouldn't get fat, and might regain some energy. She tried to be supportive of Debbie's reported efforts and results. Their weekly ... As she does her thing, the other three swap anecdotes that reveal the CIA's bag of dirty tricks, mind control attempts among them, and the spiritual carnage wreaked on its agents. That carnage, it turns out, includes a tragic loss in the female agent ... DORSEY SAYS THE BAG OF TRICKS HAS WORKED BEFORE TO RELOCATE A TERN COLONY ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA RIVER. DORSEY: "It's a tested technique. It's not anything radically new." THE BIOLOGIST DESCRIBES A VERITABLE "SUSHI BAR" AT FERN RIDGE LAKE. HE HOPES ... More gimmicks. From better seats to 3-D glasses to the next generation of computer animation, studios and theaters are emptying their bag of tricks: About 80 percent of the nation's theaters have gone to stadium seating. U2 has a 3-D movie due Jan. 25 ...
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