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: Bossa Nova 2001
Perhaps their most popular disc was the 2001 release Delta Low-Mountain High , and their rendition of “Put Your Head on ... They’ll be performing examples of Samba, Bossa Nova and other styles; and several members of the NJW’s new Brazilian group ... On Happiness Street, mules carry goods, bossa nova music pours out of homes and residents gather vegetables for the evening meal ... with long black hair and an easygoing demeanor, Botelho studied pediatric brain cancer in Spain for four months in 2001 on ... ... Boston and the University of Tennessee, lived in San Diego for five years with her husband, then came to Houston in 2001 ... Time 's originals range from bossa nova cool on Counting the Stars to swanky blues on Mama's Midnight Hour to a showcase for York's ... ... mix of jazz, blues, soul, pop and folk, including Phoebe Snow’s “Poetry Man,” Antonio Carlos Jobim’s bossa nova classic ... Latifah was to star in 2001’s “Monster’s Ball,” but producers couldn’t get financing set up, and the film was ... Remember how everyone went crazy in 2001 for that Avalanches record Since I Left You ? Critics, listeners, and Madonna ... Save for "Into Eternity," which includes Peruvian flute and a bossa nova rhythm, there is little exotica on Kortedala . Instead ... ... was academic, not musical, but his father encouraged Gonzalez to practice by introducing him to the Beatles and Bossa Nova ... It was only in 2001, when Gonzalez’s self-released 7-inch record was picked up by a label, that the then graduate ... ... Fisher eyed each other in polite bafflement, the minister launched into a five-minute, unplugged performance of the bossa nova ... Merck immediately caved, but Roche stood its ground until August 2001, when Serra prepared to make good on his threat by ... I was singing Águas de Março to myself -- a popular Brazilian song by bossa nova legend Antonio Carlos Jobim, the original being a duet between Jobim and Elis Regina. In fact, the song was named as the best Brazilian song of all time in 2001 by more ... Her long-standing record deal with A&M ended shortly after the 2001 release of the underpromoted Songs in Red and Gray ... Despite the use of elaborate orchestrations on cuts like "Edith Wharton's Figurines" and the bossa nova–cool "Pornographer's ...
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