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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Bryn Terfel
... figures as Iggy and the Stooges , the Jesus & Mary Chain and the first U.K. perf in 30 years of '60s legend Melanie . Somewhere between those musical polarities come three semistaged perfs (July 5-7) of Stephen Sondheim 's "Sweeney Todd," with Bryn Terfel ... LONDON (AP) -- Painstakingly forged over three years, the Royal Opera's new production of Richard Wagner's epic "Ring" cycle seemed in danger of shattering like Siegmund's sword when its star, Bryn Terfel, pulled out at the last minute. But in a ... WNYC, November 30, 2007 - Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel conquered the world of opera in the '90s, singing at major houses the world over. Critics praised his nuanced musicianship, as well as his remarkable voice, which can fill a stadium as easily ... It was no surprise to hear the sparks fly between the two star singers - robustly dark-toned, bass-baritone Bryn Terfel as the scheming servant Figaro and Simon Keenlyside as the subtly shaded, elegant Count, Figaro's equally scheming boss. But the ... The concert featured the bass-baritone Bryn Terfel as Elijah — who will soon be featured in two productions at the Metropolitan Opera — and was broadcast live on WQXR. The chorus, composed of professional musicians and amateurs, boomed movingly ... Bass-baritone Bryn Terfel sings Figaro's first act Cavatina, and Nicholaus Harnoncourt leads the Royal Concertgebouw orchestra and soloists in a scene from Act Two. Mozart's relationship with his Salzburg boss, the Archbishop, deteriorated over ... Don't miss Mendelssohn's "Elijah" with opera star Bryn Terfel presented by The Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall. Don't miss Bryn in his signature role for what could be his last Elijah. 8 p.m.; $20-$160. Stern Auditorium, 881 Seventh Ave., at 57th ... MacGowan's plans for a "gay duet" version with Bryn Terfel have not yet come to pass, and the Kirsty role has passed on to singers including Cerys Matthews and Katie Melua. They may have come close, but the song remains MacColl's - which is what ... ... with Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment, and ended it having demonstrated that its Ring cycle, directed by Keith Warner, was far more convincing as a whole than it had been when first seen piecemeal - even without the box-office draw of Bryn Terfel. ... His 30-year career includes collaborations with big-name artists such as Chet Atkins, Bill Wyman, Dionne Warwick and Bryn Terfel. In the 1980s, he made more than 20 albums and toured the world with jazz violin legend Stephane Grappelli. His ...
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