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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Bolivia Manta
In offering the Manta base to HPH , he said that he was offering Chinese investors a “geopolitical window” that would ... Command (South Com) currently uses it to combat illegal cocaine trade in the “source zone” of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia ... The Japan Press Service reported that activists opposing U.S. bases in Vicenza, Italy, and Manta, Ecuador, attended the ... is believed that thousands of people were killed or “disappeared” for opposing dictatorial regimes in Argentina, Bolivia ... Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, recently refused Washington's demand to renew the lease on the Manta air base in Ecuador ... Even as Gisele throws off the dollar's hegemony, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and ... The base is in Manta, Ecuador, and Rafael Correa, the country’s leftist president, has pronounced that he will renew the ... In December 2006, a month after Friedman’s death, Latin America’s leaders gathered for a historic summit in Bolivia, held ... Morales has called for the withdrawal from Bolivia of armed U.S. agents -- believed to not exceed a few dozen -- who still ... Walters also said Wednesday that the United States has not yet sought an alternative to Ecuador's Manta air base, from which ... Bolivia is a distant third in global cocaine production, after Colombia and Peru. Walters also said Wednesday that the U.S. has not yet sought an alternative to Ecuador's Manta air base, from which it flies anti-drug surveillance flights. Ecuador's ... Observers place Correa in the same category as Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela as proponents of ... Manta military base, the so-called free trade agreement with the U.S., and the International Monetary Fund. However, they ... According to Tapia, the US military base would threaten the processes of reform in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. They two ex ... The new base would replace the military base in Manta, Ecuador, which the Ecuadoran government decided to close. The analysts ... ... election run-off on 26 November 2006 appears to have given the region's radical leftist alliance - led by Venezuela, Bolivia ... made three pledges that more or less explicitly challenge US interests in the country: to close the US military base in Manta ... And he has said he will not extend the US military's use of the Manta air base on the Pacific coast for drug surveillance ... Rafael Correa, centre, with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez (left) and Bolivia's Evo Morales
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