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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Biz Markie
Blige, Faith Evans, and Usher, and later for Nas and Biz Markie as well. Thompson was just one of many hip-hop artists who owed a debt to go-go, but he was one of the few to acknowledge it. He often told Brown that he'd come back to Washington ... Biz Markie is slated to perform and the evening includes open bar and bites. When: Sat. Feb. 2 Who's going to be there: This party will be heavy on sports stars, so gaze away. Tickets: $1,000-$2,250;call 1-888-493-4224 or visit www.athletesparty.com ... Posted by The Biz Markie on November 27, 2007 4:58 PM Scouring all the blogs, I'm finding that most Yankee fans don't want to give up Hughes or Cano. Nobody will consider ... Biz markie once rapped about pickin boogers!! @ unknown....i say the shadow gov't is throwin subliminal msgs. At us by puttin out the album on that fateful day!!!! maybe n.o.r.a.d. Will stand down again when planes start heading for virgin and hmv ... Night of Costumed Revelry with live music by national and local artists on multiple stages, including headliners Hellyeah, Nonpoint, Skindred, Ankla, Karnivool, Biz Markie, Chubb Rock and UTFO. Also Guava Love It! cooking contest (4 p.m.), Mama Guava ... Seeds Grow" bounces from shock visuals (" ... watch you throw up on your naked girlfriend") to hopeful chorus within seconds, and "Get You" drops from a Biz Markie-style hook to a disconsolate state-of-the-art address ("Lemme hear your battle-rap ... You watch Kid Capri do his thing, and Biz Markie being creative with the songs he plays. If you're interested in any field, whether it be medical, whether it be legal, whether it be Hip Hop, I'm also thinking you need to be able to pass the Hip Hop ... ... as successfully combining witty punchlines, real-life situations, passion and fierce deliveries with every genre of the hip-hop world. However, it took Bru more than luck to make it where he is today. Bru believes he owes a large debt to Biz Markie ... Mixing pop and rap in a family-friendly manner, Mario continued with a remake of Biz Markie's "Just A Friend." Mario also released the well-regarded albums "Turning Point" and "Go." House of Blues, 801 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J., 8 tonight, $39, 1 ... ... an upcoming film about the formation and rise of hip hop's The Juice Crew. The collective was formed during the mid-eighties by DJ Marley Marl and included, in addition to Roxanne Shante, rappers MC Shan, Big Daddy, Kane, Craig G., Biz Markie ...
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