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 Rebel Motorcycle Club
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: All You Do is Talk Dedicated to Jon Kitna, Anthony Smith and every other athlete who failed to deliver on a ridiculous guarantee this year. 41. The Twilight Sad: Walking for Two Hours Dedicated to Greg ... ... 800 metres and along with four-time champion Jesse Owens and three other black ... Former two-weight world champion died aged 29 in a motorcycle accident on the ... batsman – who effectively ended his test career by bravely going on a rebel ... The club houses can be a chapel; I saw a list of do’s or don’ts on the door of a club house in Dennis which reminded me ... Later the fact was shown that 90% of the ballots were not felons, but Democratic leaning black African-Americans. The Florida ... But there is a slight revamping, from the Beatles-style singalong vocals of "Wasted State of Mind" to the bluesy Black Rebel Motorcycle Club feel of "Naked Sun." And apparently Guided By Voices' "Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory" wasn't lush ... The place was noticeably more crowded than Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's opening slot yesterday, but Stone worked the crowd like a baby-faced professional, totally in tune with her seasoned seven-piece band and three back-up singers, strutting and ... There is always the mediocre and it's just up to the viewer, listener; it is up to us to choose what is good and what isn't, whether it's someone "dated" like Curtis Mayfield or something newer like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. And this brings me to ... Voyager One has toured with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Elefant, supporting them on a dozen U.S. tour dates. Additionally, the band has played numerous shows along the West Coast, and perfomed at prominent festivals and conferences such as SXSW ... Either that, or it’s been 70 degrees in Atlanta since I returned, and riding a motorcycle seemed like a more enjoyable option ... Will Ohman will begin the season as the club’s left-handed reliever. As for Blaine Boyer, who is out of options, he’ll ... Given the president's remarks, here is an interesting note on the NSA/FISA controversy sent in by a Worldwide Standard reader: President Bush's wiretaps were absolutely -- without any doubt -- NOT in violation of FISA, but you have to read between ... Produced by Brian Valentino (Weezer, Stevie Nicks, Kiss, Cat Power, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain soundtrack), the sound is a heartfelt blend of '80s pop-rock (a la Men at Work), acoustic song writing, and Bre's ...
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