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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Boz Scaggs
They don't get this sort of thing very often," says Palmer, who grew up in Mountain View and was first visited by the blues in 1970 when Boz Scaggs played "Loan Me a Dime" at a $2 dance in the gym at Awalt High School. "A musical form that is intended ... He played on a Moby Grape album and later with the Jerry Miller Band, and has jammed with numerous San Francisco bands such as Sons of Champlin, Boz Scaggs and Santana. He became proficient on the washboard playing in a zydeco band called the Sundogs ... Among the well-known musical attractions are Boz Scaggs, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Hootie & the Blowfish, Ziggy Marley, Village People, Deana Carter, Los Lobos, Little Feat, Tony! Toni! Tone!, the Doobie Brothers, Vonda Shepard, Freddy Jones Band ... I was just in the right place at the right time,” said Godchaux-MacKay, who has worked with Elvis Presley, Cher, Percy Sledge, Little Feat, the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Boz Scaggs and Neil Diamond. 2 Harmony or lead, she’s on it. Godchaux ... On Monday there was always a fraternity boy driving his new convertible on River Road with the top down and music blaring -- Boz Scaggs, Barry White, the Bee Gees, ELO. On the milky-white leather seat next to him sat a sorority girl with golden hair ... Another track he was desperate to cover was Boz Scaggs ’ hit, "We’re All Alone," which Rita Coolidge scored a hit on. Again, "No one would put our version out," Frankie said. Strike or no strike, it makes excellent business sense to put "the real ... Besides the Allman Brothers Band, he is heard on recordings by Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, Boz Scaggs, Delaney & Bonnie, Herbie Mann, King Curtis, Otis Rush, Wilson Pickett, Clarence Carter, John Hammond, Johnny Jenkins, Lulu, Derek & Dominos and ... She waited until her musical soul mates were all available, Shifflett and Lewis had been on the road with Boz Scaggs. Then she and her husband of 18 years, Scott Sorkin, produced a record that compelled critic Ann Davis to write When rock stars like Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Steve Miller, Boz Scaggs, Santana, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones shared the stage with him, he gained a new audience: young, white baby boomers who were hearing the blues from the source for ... The Canyon Club is a large-scale dinner and entertainment venue that features big-name acts such as De La Soul, Boz Scaggs, Air Supply, Dennis Miller, and Pat Benetar. Know-Before-You-Go: Doors open at 6pm and guests with dinner reservations must ...
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