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: Beatles
He was 68. The cause was colon cancer, his family said. Bowart helped launch the biweekly East Village Other in Greenwich Village in 1965, a convulsive year when the Beatles, the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War were rocking American society ... The life of Olive Archer, the woman whose fate was likened to Eleanor Rigby's in the Beatles' song in which "nobody came" to her funeral, has been remembered by her relatives after all. Miss Archer in the 1940s Miss Archer, who died in her care home ... Mr Hands wants to exploit further the back catalogue at EMI, the label behind Kylie Minogue, Norah Jones and the Beatles, by digitising more recordings. He also believes that leading bands can attract corporate sponsors in the same way that football ... This guy is such a chameleon that he goes with the times," he says and indeed we see Dewey in every guise, from country music auteur a la Johnny Cash to Beatles-style Eastern mystic. "I have very eclectic music tastes myself," says John. Raised in ... A pensioner whose lonely death led to an appeal for mourners for her funeral was bade farewell yesterday. Olive Archer would have been a real life Eleanor Rigby had it not been for the Rev Akasha Lonsdale. In the Beatles’ 1966 hit, Eleanor Rigby ... On his 14th solo effort - which is one more album than the Beatles released - the crew is led by Eurythmics pal Dave Stewart, who hatched the idea for the title track, a sentimental slice of autobiography in the vein of George Harrison's "When We ... ... on Saturday, June 21. The show is a must-see for rock fans and is expected to sell-out quickly. Def Leppard are one of only five rock groups who can claim two separate original 10 million-plus selling albums in the US - the others are The Beatles ... ... backup singers fueled him with robust melodies. They played not only from Manilow's thick songbook but paid tribute to the sounds of the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s. The condensed anthology was pure pop nostalgia, covering bands from the Beatles to ... Considering his lineage, it's no surprise Liam Finn (son of Crowded House leader Neil Finn and nephew of singer-songwriter Tim Finn) has built a pretty, catchy collection of imaginative songs that draw from The Beatles and the heyday of early '80s ... ... of performers, is that there are too many pauses, leading to a fatal loss of momentum. But here something was always happening, in a night that celebrated the city's history: empire and slavery, terraces and tower blocks, bombing raids and Beatles.
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