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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Billy Currington
... Rita every chance you can," about his aunt who passed away in 2004 from breast cancer. Paisley says she was his biggest fan. Also notable: Jake Owen's Starting With Me, along with the lighthearted feel-good tune Good Directions by Billy Currington. From entertainment reporter Cindy Watts: In the last year, Luke Bryan was named country music artist to watch in 2007 by Billboard magazine, scored a No. 1 hit as a songwriter with Billy Currington 's "Good Directions," made his debut on the ... Country singer Jason Albert (Heartland) is 34. Country singer Billy Currington is 34. Dancer-choreographer Savion Glover is 34. Country musician Chad Jeffers is 32. Rhythm-and-blues singer Tamika Scott (Xscape) is 32. Rhythm-and-blues singer Lil' Mo ... E-mail this story to a friend. Following a Wednesday night (Nov. 8) concert at the Nokia Theatre in New York's Times Square, CMT on Tour headliner Trace Adkins and tourmates Jason Aldean and Billy Currington headed to the Hard Rock Cafe to perform ... A perfect summer spread greeted guests arriving at BMI's Nashville headquarters Monday (July 16) to honor Luke Bryan, the Capitol Records artist and co-writer of Billy Currington's recent No. 1 single, "Good Directions." The festive array of food ... At the same time, his second major cut as a songwriter—Billy Currington's "Good Directions"—was quickly climbing the country charts and eventually hit the top spot. Bryan signed with Capitol Records Nashville in 2004 and released his debut album ... He co-wrote a No. 1 hit, "Good Directions," for Billy Currington. Also, Bryan's first album, "I'll Stay Me," debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard country charts in August. The success has meant more than money and fame for Bryan and his family. "After the ... At the same time, Bryan’s second major cut as a songwriter - Billy Currington’s "Good Directions" - was quickly climbing the country airplay charts and eventually hit the top spot on the country singles charts in May 2007 giving the Georgia ... They noted that the interminable Oscars seemed to take even longer than usual and that host Ellen DeGeneres did okay but wasn’t as good as Billy Crystal. (Who ever is?) They played one of her funnier moments when she had Steven Spielberg take a ... His success as co-writer of Billy Currington's No. 1 single, "Good Directions," immediately established his credentials as a songwriter. But then his own single "All My Friends Say" and a cover of Conway Twitty's "Lay You Down" had fans asking over ...
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