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: Bitterness
I tried his nukazuke cucumber and it had a good balance of sourness, bitterness, pungency and a hint of sweetness. Otake has been able to serve the rather salty, succulent cucumber thanks to his daily care of the paste first prepared by his mother ... People in the industry apparently need to get something out of their systems, perhaps a lingering bitterness over never having seen "Cats." With CGI, of course, it's become child's play to blow the head off the Statue of Liberty , reduce the Brooklyn ... It eliminates bitterness, and it just helps us to move past just the phase of being in a dark place. And I just believe holding onto unforgiveness really hinders a lot of people's walk. Do you still pray for Simon Cowell? Absolutely. All the time. I do ... Political observers believe bitterness over the Confederate flag was one factor that shrank turnout ... But this issue doesn't just tie Huckabee to South Carolina Republican voters -- it also hurts his primary opponent in the state, Sen. John M cCain ... I suppose I could always wash down this bitterness with a nice, cold bottled water, which has always been around. In fact, so has Jerry Springer, Dilbert, and the World Wide Web. Rush Limbaugh has always been lying on the radio, HumVees have ... Her voice dripping bitterness, she explains that “When they first arrested Mohammed, the Old Man kept screaming at him, ‘You go to suspicious places! You hang out with suspicious people!’ My son reassured him: ‘No I don’t, Dad.’ But he ... To break the subtle harmony, the kitchen plates ceviche with a pile of greens doused in rather expressive lime dressing and a small, roller-coaster version of nori that opens as a creamy starch, dives into bitterness and flattens out as mellow, spicy ... Brady insisted he harbors "no anger or bitterness" toward the Jets, preferring to look at it as a learning experience. "You know what they say, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger?' " he said. "I do feel like it made me stronger as a person ... and as for nxt wk you scum may win-you may not,but 1 things for sure if the latter happens it will make coming on this thread sametime nxt wk all the more sweeter..so just calm down fibbys but then again it will make your bitterness even worse nxt wk ... But Hillary's scorched-earth approach threatens to fracture the party if she does get the nomination, and to leave a trail of bitterness even if she wins. We can do better for the Democratic nominee. www.paulloeb.org Paul Rogat Loeb is the author of ...
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