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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Blackalicious
New Orleans groove group Galactic enlisted two handfuls of MCs and DJs from the positive, poetic end of the rap spectrum (Chali 2Na from Jurassic 5, Lateef the Truth Speaker, Gift of Gab from Blackalicious) for an energetic — and musical — spin ... Will Blackalicious ever return with a follow-up to “The Craft,” or will Guns N’ Roses release “Chinese Democracy”? These artists have a responsibility to their fans to honestly make music. If I have to work a nine-to-five the rest of my life ... Its cover depicts a blurry, unrecognizable Shadow along with two other renowned diggers — Beni B and Blackalicious' Chief Xcel — engaged in their favorite pursuit, flipping through stacks and stacks of ancient, obscure vinyl at some anonymous ... Gospel message hits home: The Blind Boys of Alabama offer seasonal and traditional tunes Although the Blind Boys of Alabama have sung with Blackalicious rapper Gift of Gab and recorded a Fatboy Slim song, founding member Jimmy Carter says nothing has ... Blackalicious, Mighty Underdogs, Trackademicks, Honor Roll Fillmore. 9pm, $25. Matches, Minipop, Panda Slim's. 7:30pm, $15. Mother Hips Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $20. Mouth to Mouth 9pm, $10. Kenny Neal Velma's, 2246 Jerrold; 824-7646. 8pm. Nitecaps ... BLACKALICIOUS, 9 p.m. Dec. 22, Fillmore. $25. THE MATCHES, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 22, Slim's. $15. VIENNA TENG, 7 p.m. (solo show), 9:30 (full band), Dec. 22, Independent. $20. OAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL ENSEMBLE, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Dec. 24, Slim's. $15. ... The Blackalicious Holiday Affair The Fillmore Sat., December 22, 9:00pm Japantown/Pacific Heights Hip-Hop/Soul/Funk "Dan K. Harvest's Holiday Banger" Shattuck Down Low Sat., December 22, 9:00pm Downtown Berkeley Hip-Hop/Soul/Funk Deeper, Teresa Perez ... For the Telluride event, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Macy Gray Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk and Swollen Members will be playing in tent shows, while Blackalicious is slated for one of the many club shows. The four events will be held in Telluride ... Expectations for Portland's Lifesavas ran high from the start. MCs Vursatyl and Jumbo the Garbageman and DJ Shines comprised the first act to ink with Quannum Projects outside the local label's original Solesides crew (DJ Shadow, Blackalicious ... Ledisi, who also is known for lending her beautiful vocals to the Blackalicious classic rap album “The Craft,” comes with her new single “Alright,” which sounds like a mix between Jill Scott and Angie Stone. But her voice reminds me of a new ...
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