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: Beauty
home@dallasnews.com Tricia Scruggs is a Dallas freelance writer. Unlike Christmas for most Americans, the observance of Kwanzaa is deliberately simple. NATALIE CAUDILL/DMN A weeklong celebration of African-American culture that lasts from Dec. 26 to ... Oil's run to nearly $100 a barrel this year jacked up the cost of travel, clothing, beauty products and milk, and many analysts think fuel prices will remain at historically lofty levels throughout 2008. Record energy prices could sow the seeds of ... Founded eco-friendly beauty retailer The Body Shop. Sept. 10. Joe Zawinul, 75. Jazz keyboardist; one of the creators of jazz-rock fusion with Weather Report ("Birdland.") Sept. 11. Gene Savoy, 80. Explorer who discovered lost Inca and pre-Inca cities ... Into the Wild" -- Emile Hirsch offers a tour de force as the doomed Christopher McCandless, whose search for nature, beauty and truth left him dead in Alaska at 24. In adapting Jon Krakauer's best-seller, writer-director Sean Penn gives him a wealth ... Both Lucinda Williams' "West" and Joe Henry's "Civilians" are so subtle and nonlinear, it took a while for the beauty of the music to catch up to the beauty of their lyrics. And turns out, that Rihanna album ("Good Girl Gone Bad") has several other ... I began to know who I am as an African American woman, seeing the beauty of not wanting my hair straight anymore," said teacher Tamarla Adams, 39. She began growing out her hair in 1996 after years of perming, gradually trimming the straighter ... Gang-du and Hyeon-seo make a run for it, but the monster seizes the girl (wrapping a tentacle around her waist in a shot of terrifying beauty) and plunges back into the depths of the river. The second act of the film, as the Park family gathers to ... ... the Butterfly Painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel turns the true-life tale of a French fashion mag editor who suffered a massive stroke into a gorgeous reverie about the life of the mind, about creating art, about love and family and the beauty of ... Although he's seen enough to last a lifetime, for him, every storm has something to teach. "Hurricane Charley was so violent, it took away the beauty of what I enjoy about photographing our changing climate," he said of the 2004 storm. "It was a very ... Whatever we need to do, we're going to do it -- that's the beauty of this offense," Maroney said after rushing for a career-best 156 yards on just 14 carries, in Sunday's 28-7 walkthrough over the outmanned Miami Dolphins . "I know people have been ...
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