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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Bruce Springsteen
The funniest TV lines of 2007 . ''Five of us transferred from Stamford. There's two of us left—me and Karen. It's like we're touring Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and dropping off one by one. Well, guess what? I'm not falling in a chocolate river ... THE first time I played Bruce Springsteen's new album, Magic, one of its songs stayed with me for hours afterwards. No big news there; what was surprising was that it was the disc's most explicit anti-war number. Arriving near the record's end, Last ... To be honored in my hometown, the town I grew up in, the town that made me who I am, is just the greatest," said Clemons, who is a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. "This is bigger than the (Rock and Roll) Hall of Fame or anywhere else ... Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band, "Live from Dublin" - Unlike the limp, overrated "Magic" that he released with the E Street Band, the Boss shows why he's the Boss in this spirited double-album of folk songs and reinventions of some of his ... December 2007: Rock music veterans Led Zeppelin reunite for one night at the O2. * December 2007: Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band enhance the O2's growing reputation as one of the world's leading venues. Interesting? Click here to explore ... M.I.A., Jason Isbell, the White Stripes, Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, Bruce Springsteen, the Arcade Fire and Jay-Z. Maybe it's that the flow -- or Flood -- of music gets deeper and wider all the time. Yet it's hard to make a cultural impact when there's so ... Bruce Springsteen, "Magic" The Boss roared back with his best E Street disc since, well, the last one (2002's "The Rising"). It stars one of the year's classic singles, "Girls in Their Summer Clothes." 6. Miranda Lambert, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" The fire ... One of my least favorites is Bruce Springsteen's live version of "Santa Claus is Coming To Town." It's nothing but Bruce singing "Santa Claus is coming to town" over and over and over for 20 minutes. By the time Bruce finishes his Yuletide droning ... Bruce Springsteen tried. In 2004, he organized a series of concerts - The Vote for Change tour - featuring himself, the Dixie Chicks, Dave Matthews and a host of other musicians with large followings. They toured in seven states and finished with ... Most of the year's standout albums came from established acts hitting full stride or building upon stellar catalogs. Artists from Bruce Springsteen to Jay-Z to Radiohead to Lucinda Williams are in different places in their career arcs, but they all ...
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