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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Bill Evans
Kind of Blue" also featured John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly and Bill Evans among others and has been the subject of at least one book and numerous doctoral dissertations. In rock and roll, for perfection in energy and overall sound, Billy Idol's ... ... as the primary influence for modern hip-hop's heavy use of slang, distinctive fashion (Wu-Tang has its own clothing line), skits (mostly violent and funny) and sampling style, which for RZA, often mimicked his pet jazz pianists, such as Bill Evans ... His playing is informed by Tatum, Rachmaninoff, Garner, Horowitz and Bill Evans. Born in Braddock, Pa., Kallao was first tutored by his father, a professional pianist who saw to it his son studied with the best teachers, including Gyorgy Sandor of the ... Bill Evans, Dave McKenna, Art Tatum. These were lions to Bob, jazz geniuses along the lines of Chopin, whom he could not listen to without feeling his own inadequacy. I cannot play a lick of piano, but I was an attentive and appreciative audience ... ... for piano players, such as Jazz Exercises and Pieces and Peterson's New Piano Solos, but for all his facility and technique, his sheer fluency and range - taking in influences from the stride of Willie "The Lion" Smith to the cool bop of Bill Evans ... Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea. Even those whose playing flirted with virtuosity, such as Keith Jarrett or Cecil Taylor, seldom dazzled as Peterson did. In short, Peterson had the misfortune of being a musical ... Strait's "Give It Away" won the Song of the Year honor for songwriters Bill Anderson, Buddy Cannon and Jamey Johnson ... Paisley of "According to Jim" and Kate Walsh of "Private Practice" split hosting duties with Country stars Sara Evans and ... ... Kibblehouse, and Jillian Greenamoyer. (Back row, from left) Carmen Rurak, Jenna Krakowski, Shannon Foreman, and Coach Bill ... Garber, Brandon Rohrer, Trey Austin and Zach Palmer. (Front row, from left) Nicholas Jones, Zachary Robison, Jalen Evans ... Reggie Evans simply can't score — 0-4, seven rebounds, four points. He posted up five times and had two shots blocked ... However, the Celtics' full-speed offense was triggered by a stingy, aggressive defense that was led and inspired by Bill ... Select a Player Hamza Abdullah Khalid Abdullah Rob Abiamiri Victor Abiamiri Derek Abney Donnie Abraham John Abraham D.D. Acholonu Anthony Adams Blue Adams Charlie Adams Darrell Adams Flozell Adams Gaines Adams Keith Adams Michael Adams Mike Adams Sam ...
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