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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C.L. Smooth
The "Hip-Hop Group" has a very long time line. From innovators, Run DMC, to the infamous 2 Live Crew, to the soulful sounds of Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth, not to mention, A Tribe Called Quest. The chemistry between MC and DJ/producer is always crucial ... Agrees U.C.L.A.'s Chancellor Franklin Murphy: "I'm not criticizing Johnson for not having cleaned up the ghettos overnight ... He has allowed the Democratic National Committee's once smooth machinery to rust. Indeed, whereas Lincoln's Cabinet complained ... In the animated "We Don't Care," a playful club banger similar to D-12's sound, he beefs up the C.L. Smooth delivery style and raps with a rugged inflection, almost as harsh as Xzibit, but lighter and not as angry. Blaze Rock produces two of the ... Her eye-catching line of leaf leather bags is hand stamped by artist C. L. Whiting. Trinkets, Cornerstone Commerce ... price is the Samsonite Black Canyon Tote made with Denier Spun Polyester and featuring in-line skate wheels for smooth ... The long awaited "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier" is on sale now from Wildstorm , and that means Jess Nevins has been busy. Known in far corners of the Internet for his exhaustive annotations on some of American comics' greatest ... DJ Jazzy Jeff lost The Fresh Prince to the Hollywood A-List, Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth let creative differences get between them, and Eric B . and Rakim parted ways over a decade ago. But for those who still long for the golden years, there’s still a few ... Pete we (AHH) need one more Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth album.... The climate is perfect for you two to drop REAL HIP HOP TOGETHER on a cd..... Like A Tribe Called Quest said: "Do it all for the love yo...." Or EPMD's "Give The People What They Want ... C.L., via e-mail Dear C.L.: Michael Levine's The Address Book gives his address as P.O. Box 8520, Universal City, CA 91608. ... Beat until smooth and spread on flat side of pie. Makes 36 pies. S.K., Centerville Dear S.K.: Thanks for sending the recipe. We ... C.L. Franklin's Baptist church. The subsequent studio version, recorded with a band of good ol' boys from the Muscle Shoals ... She sailed into the AM-friendly, smooth, commercial waters of Arista. The imprints of Atlantic and Arista exist only as old ... “I just left the lawyer’s office. I signed a multimillion dollar joint venture with Sony. My boss is Rick Rubin and Hip Hop (Kyambo Joshua) is doing my albums with me. What you think Jay-Z is gonna think about that?” LOL @ Jim still thinking ...
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