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: Black Hawk Down
The 19-year-old singer last month denied reports of a romance between the pair, insisting she hardly knows the Black Hawk Down star. But Rihanna now says she is close pals with Hartnett and emphasises that she likes to get to know any potential ... From classics like “Alien” and “Blade Runner” to modern triumphs like “Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down,” Scott has always been a master at setting an atmospheric mood. There are scenes in “American Gangster” that undoubtedly ... To keep those three multimillion-dollar plates spinning is a remarkable achievement, though Scott managed something similar in 2000-2002 when, outrageously, Gladiator , Hannibal and Black Hawk Down appeared in rapid succession. "I started late," says ... Now Scott is being talked up for an Oscar win, after three nominations (for Thelma and Louise , Black Hawk Down and Gladiator ). Scott says the nominations without wins are not a source of frustration to him. "No. It just shows I'm still competitive now ... ... not only captures an important moment in modern history that led to the eventual end of the Cold War, it also provides a window to view two of the most influential leaders of the 20th century," the director of "Gladiator" and "Black Hawk Down" wrote ... ... at least that’s what many fans are hoping for Khaled El-Nabawy, the young Egyptian star who snagged a solid, if brief, part in the $130-million Hollywood production Kingdom of Heaven. In the film by director Ridley Scott (Aliens, Black Hawk Down ... ... 2nd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, more than snugly fits into the space allocated for crew chiefs in the Black Hawk ... It's not passed down for generations. There's a chance it will come back, but if I take the preventive steps, it shouldn't ... ... India needs to progress, it has to do so on its own against its own yardstick. This will take time given the baggage of corruption, poverty, monolithic bureaucracy that it has, but with the right focus it can achieve much. Spending time pulling down ... ... feet of baseball administration starting with the Commissioner's office right down ... and done, this will probably be a bigger disappointment to the game than the Black ... The Hawk might be in this category. However, writers may have a growing admiration ... ... but if Rice is a Hall of Famer, it’ll be nearly impossible to exclude the Hawk ... The fact that it’s taken this long for Blyleven to be elected is a black mark on ... until 2011, but Blyleven is well on his way to election. Lee Smith: He’s well down ...
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