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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Butterfly Effect
Having toured non-stop for over two months ? first in support of Australian rockers The Butterfly Effect, and then on their own headlining tour - the Dukes have seen their fair share of what Australia can offer in crowds, venues, and good times. ... Ashton Kutcher, the star of such epic films as 'Dude, Where's My Car?' and 'The Butterfly Effect,' marries Kabbalist cougar Demi Moore in Beverly Hills, before roughly 100 friends and family, including Moore's ex-husband, Bruce Willis. (OK!/AP) Sept ... The plot synopsis makes it sound like a bigger budget version of The Butterfly Effect , but what it actually looks like is a fresh, flat out cool take on the type secret war world presented in The Matrix . Samuel L. Jackson is the new Laurence Fishburne In Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly , a man wakes from a three-week coma in a hospital room. For the next ... Best use of special effects: The eerily believable, post-apocalyptic New York City in I Am Legend . Coolest special effect: ... ... of a voluptuous rose and the delicate, almost translucent lemon white of a cabbage white butterfly to the bluish white of freshly fallen snow." It is almost impossible, they say, "to find a white that isn't tinged with another color." That effect is ... The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Kennedy/Marshall Company) Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Marie-Josee Croze, Emmanuelle Seigner ... images you could hang on your wall, like the bits of broken pottery glued to canvas that have become his signature effect. ... Julian Schnabel's graceful look at physical paralysis and mental freedom, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" ; Jennifer Baichwal's insightful documentary about industry and its effect on the environment, "Manufactured Landscapes" ; Mira Nair's cross ... The writers strike idled some TV shows from the start, and while the big-screen effect initially was minimal because of the long lead time for movies, shooting on a few films was postponed. It was the first time writers walked off the job in 19 years ... The three nights of below-freezing temperatures at Easter had a visible effect on our garden later in the season,” said Nancy Reynolds. Reynolds’ garden contains roses, shrubs and perennials. “The six butterfly bushes never reached their full ... Diamond in effect argues that no one is to blame,” said Deborah B. Gewertz, an anthropologist at Amherst College. “The ... that human will was an important pivot in the turning of history, as were freak accidents and chaotic “butterfly effects ...
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