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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Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer
... manager, and I came up with having a reveal of two white gloves placed on the butt of my black unitard, a la Barbra Streisand ... While we were dancing our curtain call to Donna Summer's "Last Dance" Kevin Chamberlin turned around and there were tears ... I met Block 30 years ago at a diva puppet show in a Greenwich Village apartment featuring marionettes of Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer. One of the acclaimed porn boys of the era appeared at intermission to deliver to the puppeteer Bob McKinley a ... The New York native wrote songs for projects as varied as a David Bowie album ("Fascination") and the Broadway musical "The Wiz," sang backup for Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand and became a leading commercial jingle singer. He battled weight ... Or will the mood of the day be “No More Tears/Enough Is Enough,” to quote the Donna Summer/Barbra Streisand song, when it comes to Alex remaining in pinstripes? All I can do is quote Thelma Houston and say “Don’t Leave Me This Way”! Let’s ... Barbra Streisand, you've lost the Tony award to Carol Channing. Now, take off that gown, put on a frock and dance back up for ... The whole bows are choreographed to Donna Summer's "Last Dance." Maybe we should be more presentational and have a ... Or will the mood of the day be “No More Tears/Enough Is Enough,” to quote the Donna Summer/Barbra Streisand song, when it comes to Alex remaining in pinstripes? All I can do is quote Thelma Houston and say “Don’t Leave Me This Way”! Let’s ... Barbra Streisand has shocked hotel staff in a top London hotel by issuing a long list of demands during her stay in the British ... together, to which Streisand replied, "How about 'Enough Is Enough'?", referring to her 1970s disco duet with Donna Summer. ... True, it may have been for only four days, but "The Long Run" was the first No. 1 album of the '80s until Donna Summer's ... I should also note that Barbra Streisand is the only individual performer to accomplish the same feat as the Eagles, hitting ... ... been great beauties - think Lauren Hutton with her gap-toothed smile or Barbra Streisand ... Perfect for day or night, casual or dressy, winter or summer, with other jewels ... Donna Taylor, Rugeley Great attitude! That's what I've always done: I was the ... Barbra Streisand's status as one of the most successful singers of her generation is all the more remarkable not only because ... Don't Bring Me Flowers," hit number one, as did "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)," a dance record sung with Donna Summer ...
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