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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Black Sabbath

Cortland native Ronnie James Dio once again with Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler, reuniting the band's early 1980s lineup. There were a couple of amazing things about this show: one, the 65-year-old Dio is still at the top of his game ... The Sex Pistols played a concert in London on November 8 and Black Sabbath under the name of Heaven and Hell and The Eagles were also part of the so-called "heritage act" revival. Sly and the Family Stone, The Who, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, and what ... Cake-esque versions of standards by the likes of the Prince of Darkness (Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"), the Chairman of the Board (Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night") and the Walrus of Love (Barry White's "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up") are ... The man behind Bon Jovi , Metallica , Judas Priest and Black Sabbath's 'style' is to launch a new women's clothing line. Ray Brown, who created stage outfits for Priest's Rob Halford and heavy rock guitar greats Tony Iommi and Slash , has designed ... D on Airey has lived the better part of his professional life as a musical mercenary logging time with groups including Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Whitesnake and Ozzy Osbourne. Having floated in and out of the Deep Purple circle of acquaintances for ... It does not have the ring of a sure-fire ratings hit, but the couple have said the series could be as big as The Osbournes (which might explain Cher's apparent metamorphosis into the Black Sabbath frontman). Last night a U.S. source said: "Cher and ... The BLACK SABBATH frontman said, "Paris was always hanging around our house. I'm not sure if she was a friend of Kelly or Amy — which one was it, Sharon?" Sharon added, "She was Jack's... erm... friend." Ozzy continued, "He didn't shag her, did he ... Employees at Beaver’s Band Box on the corner of Oracle and Magee roads say that if Guitar Hero has added anything to music, it’s an uptick in album sales of hard rock acts like Black Sabbath and Guns N’ Roses. While the popularity of the game ... The homage to Black Sabbath’s “Heaven & Hell” on Just a Piece would be undetectable by anyone other than a major Sabbath fan, and there are probably a dozen other like instances across Tales From the White Line. Just the fact that this breaks ... ... Eric Clapton, Bryan Adams, the Who, Free, Bad Company, Bob Dylan, the Eagles, Dire Straits, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lenny Kravitz, the Beatles, David Bowie, the Kinks, the Doors, the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, AC/DC, Elvis Costello, ZZ Top, Black Sabbath ...
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