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 Leather
Wilmington police released surveillance photos today of a suspect in the robbery of the PNC bank at 901 Market St. on Friday. The bank was robbed about 1:40 p.m. by a man claiming he had a gun. A man in his mid-30s wearing a black leather coat handed ... Zen’s allure is achieved with fabric-covered walls, red décor, back-lit bars, a VIP area with plasma screens, black leather couches and of course, the dj’d music. That’s the smoke and mirrors. But the mid-town club’s edge stems from the ... SOUTHFIELD -- Michigan's native son had won, and Mitt Romney, his jet black hair damp and his eyes red and teary, was greeted ... Randa Volbrecht, a real estate agent from Rochester, wore a "Mitt Romney for President" button on her red leather coat. "If my ... He is of average height with a medium build, and a large pot belly. He reportedly has a large, wide nose and grey hair covering his ears, and was described by police as wearing a black leather jacket, blue jeans, a black baseball cap, black sneakers ... Another man, tall and bald, arrives wearing a black leather tricorn hat, a silky black poofy pirate shirt, leather pants with a codpiece attached, and leather boots that extend over his knees. “These are Renaissance fair people,” I say to Allena. ... If you're like me and find it hard to go without Kate Beckinsale in tight black leather, know that both she and Scott Speedsman could be back for a fourth installment. The security officer mentioned that the suspect wore a black leather racing jacket with an image of the Kellogg's cereal icon Tony the Tiger. "I'm on that Web site all the time," Evola said. "I routinely check for suspects and look for parallels ... ... something residents drink Beck's beer and Bionade from the bottle or slurp glasses of latte macchiato. Crossover, a raw mixture of punk and techno music belts out of a café next door where almost identical-looking customers in black leather ... Long black leather gloves ($230 from Portolano) are paired with a jacket with three-quarter-length sleeves. While black is the most popular glove color, fashion experts say don’t shy away from bold colors like teal or orange TILTON — Around this time every year, this Santa’s helper kicks off his black leather boots and breathes a sigh of relief that another Christmas season is over. “After making 60 Santa appearances and talking with hundreds of kids, it’s kind ...
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