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: Between Realities
... in the recent shifts in professional prestige. In fact, while tracking the fuzzy concept of “prestige” as it flits between professions, applying a gendered perspective establishes the ideals of the American Dream in stark realities. The only paradox that was a little disappointing was the interplay between objective abstraction and a completely ... who shook off Abstract Expressionism in the 1960s to make gritty, cartoonish paintings, Martin paints exaggerated realities ... Games where you’re an actual soldier in combat I have trouble with,” he says. “I find that it’s more like a numbing effect to the harsh realities of war.” But the push-pull between father and son led to frank conversations about war, the ... ... description that aptly encapsulates the ignorance of many mainstream journalists (and the aversion to unpleasant realities of ... How People With Integrity Can Revolutionize America," warning starkly that in the struggle between secular and sectarian ... But the realities of a diminished state budget and a form of political detente between the Republican governor and the Democrat-controlled Legislature suggest otherwise. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. Great expectations often lead to great ... between five different stories that surfaced this week: Mitt Romney's pledge to save Michigan ... respect to financial innovation, but also an acknowledgement of new economic realities that ... The project, a joint venture between Redeemer and Starward Homes Ltd., secured official plan amendment approval Tuesday from ... In the context of the new planning realities, we may want to start reviewing these buffers," Mr. Whitehead said. City planner ... While the battle between proponents of ODF and OOXML rages on, Microsoft is making some headway persuading several strategic ... Asked why OOXML was preferred over the ODF, Soon said the decision was based on commercial realities. He estimated that over ... Yet Ortega's performance since taking office in January 2007 does not indicate a clear preference between the vegetarian and carnivorous socialist camps. The former Comandante is walking a tightrope, appearing to support capitalism and the U.S ... He reasoned that since Nigeria must contend with the realities of possible establishment of AFRICOM occasioned by (military ... What is taking place now is an administrative ratification of a long standing relations between the U.S. and the Nigerian ...
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