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: Blackened Sky
Trees stood black and smoking under a weak winter sky as an army of firefighters in sooty yellow coats hosed down hot spots. At nearby Delray Memorial Park, charred swing sets dangled from blackened chains and the noxious odor of smoke, propane and ... ... faces blackened and weapons ready, they joked together like a group of Boy Scouts preparing to head out on a lark. In the distance, unexplained flares occasionally lit up the horizon, while overhead mysterious aircraft and drones circled under a sky ... No birds could be heard singing. Smoke lifted into the sky from charred trees and homes. A little child’s wagon emptied on its back, blackened by fire, wheels melted. This was the surreal scene Friday afternoon of a once family oriented ... BARRETT JUNCTION, Calif. -- The search team descended into the blackened canyon hoping the flames had spared Juan Carlos Bautista ... The sky rained ash. Flames raced up hillsides. The migrants huddled under blankets. They poured water on each other. Six ... Some of the 22 million bolts of lightning that strike Florida each year pour from the sky behind First United Methodist ... By the time is was over, it had caused temporary closings of interstates 10 and 75 and blackened an area 30 miles wide and 58 ... ... had contained by 10 percent a wind-driven fire that broke out in the Angeles National Forest near Castaic that blackened more ... they turned what would otherwise be merely sneeze-inducing into a nightmarish-looking haze that smudged out the whole sky. ... ... is blackened earth, the mountains beyond devoid of the palm trees and shrubs that once made them beautiful, wild and lush. One street below, homes lie in piles of ash. Over the mountains and farther east, columns of white smoke billow into the sky ... The Nevada desert stretches to the east under a bright blue morning sky. Chaparral, Joshua trees and creosote bushes ... Somewhere near me on this blackened vertical wall is a crevice that will save me from a hairy fall, a belaying rope attached to ... As utility poles ignited and the sky blackened, people scrambled for their cell phones. “Grab all the important papers and get outside,” an unidentified woman, her voice trembling with panic, said to her husband. “Do you know how to turn on the ... ... month to hit this seaside enclave hugging the Pacific Ocean, popular with many of Hollywood's biggest stars, has blackened 4,500 ... Against a brilliant blue sky, a pall of smoke billowed off the mountains and poured out over the ocean. Scores of spot ...
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