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: Bittersweet
For about a total of five minutes Sunday in Arkansas' 71-67 overtime victory over Alabama at Bud Walton Arena, it appeared as if Crimson Tide senior guard Mykal Riley was going to have a splendid homecoming. In a matter of moments, the Pine Bluff ... Into the Wild" is a bittersweet odyssey of opportunities lost and paradise found. INTO THE WILD (R). The Atlanta-to-Alaska odyssey of a bourgeois college graduate with Thoreau dreams, based on the nonfiction account by Jon Krakauer. Sean Penn's ... Standing off to the side, listening to her son, was Olivia Manning, her face the very essence of bittersweet. Husband Archie had spent the afternoon on a less pleasing mission in Indiana. “They decided to send me to hostile territory," she joked. ... What a bittersweet twist on the gender play of writers like George Sand or George Eliot and others who adopted male names, personae and wardrobes to splinter taboos. Here was a Saudi man pretending to be a woman so that he could impress upon his ... La Jetee" (1962) "Black and white French sci-fi time-travel masterpiece made entirely of photographic stills save for one image of a woman opening her eyes. Romantic, bittersweet, and beautiful to watch." M.B. of Sherwood: "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's ... They remembered No. 12 who would throw himself in front of a line drive to save a run or slide into first base to scratch out a hit. The service was a bittersweet affair, former teammate Brian Burden said. "It was like a team reunion, for all of the ... The victory turned out to be bittersweet for Peters, as her time of 2:47:29 was just over the Olympic trial qualifying time of 2:47:00. "I didn't even know about that until after the race. I guess that's something for me to work toward next time ... ... a senior and it's just a part of the game." For the Tar Heels, the tough-fought victory helps get them ready for physical games ahead -- Boston College on Thursday, at Connecticut on Jan. 21 and Maryland on Jan. 26. For State, the loss is bittersweet ... There's something appealing about a cheeky British girl cursing her way through alternately romantic and rotten relationships. The dynamic made Lily Allen a breakout star. And it's generating the same kind of buzz for fellow quirky singer Kate Nash ... The defeat was bittersweet for Mines, as Henry felt Jamestown College was the best team in league, and his Hardrockers were still able to compete and give themselves an opportunity to come out on top. “I feel terrible for our kids,” Henry said ...
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