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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Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys
McClinton's road-tested chops come courtesy of a life spent soaking up the Texas sound, beginning as a child when his parents would take him to see Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys rock the Cotton Club in Lubbock in the 1950s, and later as a teen ... Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys were singing "My Adobe Hacienda," and Billie and Bob were falling in love. Throughout their 60-year ... Bob hadn't told his family the whole story about his lung cancer. It had metastasized to his brain. Bob died a week ... Nelson who found success early in his career as a songwriter rather than a performer spent his formative years at the feet of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys listening to Texas Swing and singing at the honky tonks in Cowtown (Fort Worth) along the ... Playing country swing in the spirit of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys is not necessarily covering new ground for Ms. Bogguss. “This music is where I am right now in my life,” she says. “It’s not a novelty. It’s not me singing a collection ... Under the direction of guitarist Joe Settlemires, the youngest surviving member of the Texas Playboys, the ... Originally from Stratford, Archer performed in Chickasha's old Saddle Club many times during his youth. When country swing ace Bob Wills ... Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys; the Horace Silver Quintet; and Bobby “Blue” Bland. Dylan tells lame jokes. “I just came back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to the airport.” Coffee, he says, “is the common man’s gold. And ... ... first hand, the boiling pot full of jazz, swing, blues and country — the true Bob Wills Western Swing experience that textbooks can’t touch. He can still hear the rickety stage shake, the sound bouncing across walls, Wills and his Texas Playboys ... By the time he got to Austin in the late Forties, Western swing bloomed in full flower with Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys as the kings. A local guitarist with a colorful name had some local success with Jesse James & His Gang before most of the ... Native Texan George Strait announced Monday that he will begin his 2008 arena tour Jan. 10 in Austin. Strait ... Singer-guitarist Leon Rausch of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys is 80. Singer Don McLean is 62. Actor Avery Brooks ( Star Trek: In 1985, actor Rock Hudson died at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 59 after battling AIDS. Ten years ... Country singer-musician Leon Rausch (Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys) is 80. Former Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is 75. Movie critic Rex ...
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