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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Bellini
A bellini was invented at Harry's Bar in Venice, Italy, in 1948 and combines Italian prosecco and peach puree. Kir royale is a French concoction made with champagne and the black currant liqueur called crème de cassis. How do I store sparkling wine ... Montalto recalled the panic that one patron went through when he needed a Bellini score to study for an opera audition. The library owns five copies, but none of them could be found. She wonders: How many chances should you get if you say you have ... His conducting of Bellini's La Sonnambula at the Royal Opera in 1971, with Renata Scotto, was described by William Mann as being as "watchfully and lovingly [performed] as for the greatest Mozart". The following year he conducted La traviata there ... To make Hoeber's berry version of a classic peach Bellini from Harry's Bar in Venice, toss a handful of blackberries, raspberries or strawberries into the blender with simple syrup and purée until smooth. Strain to remove the seeds and store the ... Appetizers Addictive Caramelized Nuts Almond-Parmesan Crisps Ancho-Rubbed Grilled Veal Quesadillas Antipasti Misti Antipasto of Asparagus with Freshly G... Apple Salsa Apricot Wraps Arepas Arroz con Queso Nachos (Rice with Che... Artichoke and ... Along with peach purée, Prosecco is a primary ingredient in the Bellini cocktail. Asti This is a wine-growing region in Italy known for the sparkling wine formerly called Asti Spumante, now known as Asti. Moscato d'Asti, which is a lighter sparkler ... Prosecco is the traditional base for the Bellini cocktail. Prosecco is the name of the grape used, and the name is protected, meaning that only wine from a specific region of Italy can carry it. The wine has a fruity, floral aroma. Asti spumante is ... Madonna of the Meadow by Bellini shows the infant Jesus sleeping in the Virgin's lap The significance of this idea becomes apparent when we sketch the ways in which divinity was imagined in the two ... Jones —will be among the bellini-sipping award-winners this evening. Annie Lennox is expected to make a special appearance, and Chaka Kahn and Kat Deluna will perform. We spoke with the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Aaron Hicklin , today to learn more ... ... with her incredible soprano voice and her deep knowledge about the line itself, to define cadenzas in musical space and to project within a short aria a well-contoured character," it said. Her imposing repertoire includes bel canto works by Bellini ...
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