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 Metal
Of all of the death metal bands on the scene, the Black Dahlia Murder may be the scariest one out there. Frontman Trevor Strnad calls its new album, "Nocturnal," the act's "most evil outing yet . . . a full return to the death-gore lyrical style ... The spent fuel, vitrified into blocks of black glass that will remain dangerous for thousands of years, is in "interim storage ... Some contain compacted radioactive metal, the others hold spent fuel that has been vitrified into glass. Among other ideas ... It’s tiny and agreeably worn, shiny metal showing through the black-painted floor, the seat bulged out under the G-forced impact of so many aviators’ bottoms. On the joystick between my legs (the plane is dual control, so you can follow Claude ... With this system, a thin, black metal sheet, covered by clear glass or plastic to improve heat retention, absorbs and transfers the sun’s energy to the water. Evacuated tubes. This system consists of a set of heat-absorbing glass tubes, which have a ... ... as the side lanes and alleys that connect them, are a crusty jumble of more old buildings made of wood or corrugated metal ... There, also, is a black-and-gold statue of King Kamehameha the Great where people leave flowers at his feet. A short drive ... They liked the oriental / black metal twist very much and asked for more samples,” Salah says. “A few weeks later, we were in business.” Odious has signed a three-year contract based on a revenue-share model, with two albums to be produced ... The first discoveries of gold used by man date back to around 4000BC near the Black Sea, where decorative objects were fashioned out of the precious metal. It was not until around 700BC that gold was used as a currency. Merchants in what is Turkey ... What has changed, many who follow the metal say, is that gold no longer benefits just from threats to prosperity but from ... How Do You B.E.? Win a chance to be featured in Black Enterprise Magazine! » more ... Rise Above, his current album, rewrites Black Flag’s 1981 hardcore classic Damaged “from misremembered adolescent ... mbira patterns were transposed onto electric guitar.” (An mbira, or thumb piano, is a resonating soundboard with metal keys ... It served as the library of a state electronics institute and metal book-racks had replaced the furniture on all three floors ... fully armed and sat on their ammunition boxes, picking their teeth while one of them tormented a young Chinese man in black ...
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