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 Voices
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO "Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu" Heads Up SOUTH AFRICAN a cappella harmony group Ladysmith Black Mambazo ... There are no American pop stars as guests or extra musicians, just eight male voices blending soft harmonies, percussive ... ... our presidential candidates know that our voices and votes count too and that all gays aren't white and all blacks aren't homophobic or heterosexual and our vote is not to be taken for granted or our voices ignored." A survey by the National Black ... News & Notes , January 16, 2008 · They may be a small part of the electorate, but they are finally speaking out. For more on the issues of importance to black gays and lesbians this election season, Farai Chideya talks with Los Angeles-based blogger ... Cobb writes in America Online's Black Voices, "A combination of factors made (Mrs. Parks's) refusal a powder-keg moment in civil rights history. Just a year earlier, the Supreme Court had handed down the Brown v. Board of Education decision and ... Barack Obama supports the addition of nearly 100,000 soldiers and Marines in coming years, and he doesn't want to be embarrassed by loud black voices of protest during his dash for the brass ring. "I strongly support the expansion of our ground forces ... But, who is it that they have black listed, excluded from debates, distorted his campaign achievements, and attempted to smear with character assassination? Trust me, they would love to silence Ron Paul, but they can not do it!! Ron Paul isn’t ... Clinton discussed her $110 billion stimulus package and told voters at a predominantly black church outside Los Angeles ... While the Clinton camp clearly believed the voices of workers should be silenced in service of their perceived political ... Three local black poets (Colleen J. McElroy, Gloria Burgess, Lauri Conner). A humor writer for "Saturday Night Live" and ... Cave Canem," Burgess said this week, "has provided a safe, consistent and ever-expanding harbor for voices that might ... Many of you know that our Black Voices Quarterly magazine was the premier publication covering black colleges and black college sports. No, I'm not leaving the Daily Press to jump-start BVQ, although that too was the best job in the whole wide world ... Each team member relied on the voices and instructions of those ahead to navigate safely through the pitch black cave. It was the experience the FBC team had hoped for. “We took the guys on this retreat with the intention that they would appreciate ...
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