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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Brian Eno
Britain's no. 3 political party has turned to musician Brian Eno to make their policies sound as good as the albums he produced for U2, David Bowie and Talking Heads. But he caused a stir Thursday in his first interview since being appointed as ... Britain’s No. 3 political party has turned to avant-garde musician Brian Eno to make their policies sound as good as the albums he produced for U2, David Bowie and Talking Heads. But he caused a stir Thursday in his first interview since being ... A bizarre common history in barber-shop quartets unites them all, as does a love of Brian Eno. There’s an anti-parochialism to them that, among other things, helps to explain their utter bafflement when the subject of Arctic Monkeys comes up ... One of the first things Nick Clegg announced after being elected Liberal Democrat leader was that 60-year-old musician Brian Eno - of Roxy Music and other fame - would be briefing him on "youth" issues. He said: "I'm announcing that Brian Eno, from ... Timbaland Counted among Phil Spector and Brian Eno as one of the most important producers of his generation, living legend Timbaland did us the great honor of working the knobs and pulling the talent strings at the 2007 VMAs. Not only did he help us ... The two worked closely with a musical dream team that included Brian Eno on keyboards, guitarist Fianchna O'Braonain (Hothouse Flowers), the Irish button accordion player Sharon Shannon, Julian Wilson (Grand Drive) on piano, Hammond B-3, strings and ... A strange beast, Here Is What Is mingles Lanois' arty leanings (he's a longtime Brian Eno collaborator) with his fondness for timeless songwriting. Pedal steel shows up on nearly every song, at once warm and sad, but never threatening to overwhelm the ... That vision was honed by producer by John Reynolds (U2, Sinead O'Connor), who included a crack studio team -- Brian Eno, Fianchna O'Braonain (Hothouse Flowers), Julian Wilson (Grand Drive) -- to perform the musical background ... Reissues of Brian Eno’s classic recordings by Astralwerks, the wide acclaim and surging popularity of Sigur Ros and Explosions in the Sky, and Christopher O’Riley’s solo piano readings of Radiohead all reveal a current longing for demanding ... Self-professed has been William Shatner; Dream pop veterans Luna; A reissued classic from Cream; Bluegrass revivalist Alison Krauss; Great unknown mandolinist Sam Bartlett; Ambient rock pioneer, producer Brian Eno; and Socially conscious anthem rock ...
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