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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Britten, Benjamin
The Met is also presenting a new production of one of the 20th century's greatest operas, Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes," directed by John Doyle. The opera, about a fisherman implicated in the death of his apprentice, stars tenor Anthony Dean ... The Salem Choral Society presents Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols" and other seasonal classics. $10, general; children, free. 4 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Roanoke College, Olin Hall. 761-4727. DANCE "An Evening of Ballet" The Radford University ... Sumptuous recording of quintessential French composer, Debussy, who continues to influence modernism, like the included Benjamin Britten. Mike Regenstreif - roots 1. Ry Cooder: My Name Is Buddy (Nonesuch/Warner). Old left politics blend with Appalachian ... The Aldeburgh Festival was founded by composer Benjamin Britten in 1948, and is one of the most important U.K. festivals. Each summer it offers a mix of contemporary opera, new chamber works and traditional repertory. It takes place over two weeks in ... Oakland Opera Theater presents Benjamin Britten's 1954 opera based on Henry James's spooky novella. ONGOING Beach Blanket Babylon Club Fugazi, 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd; 421-4222. $25-78. Wed-Thurs, 8pm; Fri-Sat, 7 and 10pm; Sun, 2 and 5pm. Ongoing ... The InterSchool Orchestras of New York (ISO) Symphony, conducted by Music Director Jonathan Strasser, will present a special Mother’s Day concert featuring WQXR’s Robert Sherman narrating Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the ... The musical selections include works by John Rutter, Gustav Holst, Paul Wohlgemuth, Benjamin Britten, G.F. Handel, Igor Stravinsky and Anton Bruckner, as well as traditional carols — among them "Away in a Manger," "We Three Kings of Orient Are," "O ... Twelve children, Lige George Jr., Robert Dinkins, Benjamin Dinkins, Beatrice Russell, Geraldine Williams, Carrie Johnson, Yvonne Jelks, Bonita Britten, Jeanette Hamilton, Joan Livingston, Beverly Gray and Angela Taylor; 48 grandchildren; 56 great ... He worked closely with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, accompanying the latter in many lieder recitals. Perahia served as Co-Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival (1981–89) and is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Music and the ... Benjamin Britten's 20th century masterpiece, "Peter Grimes," in a riveting new production starring Patricia Racette and Anthony Dean Griffey; Henry Purcell's "King Arthur" in a staging by MacArthur 'Genius Grant' recipient Mark Morris; and the season ...
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