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
Maria DeAngelis played proudly front and center for a happy and hip birthday party for the bossa nova Saturday night at Jazz Central. The Syracuse native and veteran jazz vocalist picked a cool dozen favorite songs from the genre that was born in ... Bossa nova spin Brazilian singer Luciana Souza brings her bossa nova style to songs by Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Sting and other pop stars. She performs on Saturday at Miami's Carnival Center , 1300 Biscayne Blvd. With The New Bossa Nova , Souza gives ... Newton-John hit some other high notes first, restricting herself, she said, to hits written or produced by compatriots: Magic (John Farrar); Physical , slowed to a bossa nova (Steve Kipner); Hopelessly Devoted to You (Farrar). The latter has rarely been ... Friends tried to tell me that Pinheiro wrote neither music nor lyrics for the bossa nova classic, that her sole contribution came in walking past the Rio de Janeiro bar frequented by a musician (Antonio Carlos Jobim) and lyricist (Vinicius de Moraes ... The trio, gifted in the art of bossa nova, performs a free Jazz in the Gallery concert, presented by the Norman Arts Council , at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Norman Depot , 200 S Jones. Hear audio samples of the group's work online at www.heathernelson.net ... 40 VOY Latin Music stations. All commercial free. Daughter of Joao Gilberto, creador of bossa nova and known in Brazil as The Legend & Miúchas (another well-known singer,) she demonstrated an early interest in music from influences by her uncle ... The Layabout Trio, lead guitarist/record producer Rich Mouser and Bossa Nova guitarist Shohei Urata will be accompanying Kaylene that night. 2005-06-18 Emma Rugg Releases new E.P Emma Rugg, singer songwriter from Hull UK releases second recording on ... Flamenco, bossa nova and jazz on guitar. Scott Stenten Wed, 7p. Multiple instruments played at the same time, from two guitars at one to double necked guitars. Louka Patenaude & Cliff Fredrickson Trio Thurs, 9p. Mix of swing, bebop, hot, cool and ... Gathering Parry on organ, Kingsbury on bass, and the younger Butler on synthesizer and percussion, the Arcade Fire fleshed out an eclectic mix of bossa nova, punk, and classically tinged songs. A self-titled EP appeared in 2003. That same year, the ... On "Dolores in a Shoestand" Öström's brushes lay down a subtle bossa nova beat for Svensson's baroque improvisations while Berglund alternates between a simple bass line and big washes of orchestral textures. The tune devolves into a funky R&B jam ...
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