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: Brandi Carlile
... to tear some cash out of your wallets, there's also dates set for Kings of Leon, Patty Griffin, Kanye West, The Smashing Pumpkins, Duran Duran, KT Tunstall, Ozzy Osbourne, Carlos Santana, The Wombats, PJ Harvey, Rod Stewart, Split Enz, Brandi Carlile ... Historical proximity makes comparisons between Nicole Atkins and Brandi Carlile inevitable, as both share a rich, open-throated vocal style, but Atkins’s range and timbre are lower and darker, like some magic blend of Stevie Nicks and Cass Elliott ... Brandi Carlile: Maple Valley singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile firmly established herself as a national artist with the release of "The Story," produced by legendary producer and musician T Bone Burnett. Carlile rolled into Seattle last month on VH1's ... Soon albums by Maps and Brandi Carlile and the "Once" soundtrack followed. And, I have to admit, as much as I cherish my large collection of old CDs, it was awfully nice to have the songs neatly organized online. No need to search through the ... Maybe only I can make this connection, but to me, there’s similarity in the Comcast/Big Ten Network stale-mate and the producers and writers showdown in Hollywood. Not having the Big Ten Network has been a small inconvenience. I would have liked to ... ... Pay" Blur - "To the End" Sonic Youth - "Superstar" Tegan and Sarah - "Where Does the Good Go?" Hour 2 - Listen Janis Joplin - "Piece of My Heart" The Seeds - "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" Sebadoh - "Soul and Fire" Clem Snide - "End of Love" Brandi Carlile ... A friend kept encouraging me to listen to Brandi Carlile’s debut album (from June 2006), and I put it off for a while. When I listened to it earlier this year, I was stunned at how great it was. Last year was a good year, but Carlile would have made ... Wow, out of all genres I would pick Rihanna and Brandi Carlile. You say "random." I say "interesting." 4. When you are not touring, what do you like to do for fun? My best friend, Abigail, and I like to drive past our ex-boyfriends' houses. 5. What ... Marc Cohn's Gothic Theatre show on Dec. 14 also is sold out, but tickets for his Dec. 15 Beaver Creek show at the Vilar Center (with Amy Correia) and his Dec. 16 Fort Collins show at the Lincoln Center (with Brandi Carlile) are still available ... Mayer will perform in nightclub-like settings along with a group of artists including Soulive, Brandi Carlile, Martin Sexton and DJ Logic. Information, including the full list of performers, is available at the Mayercraft Carrier website . ...
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