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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Cacophony
Or will they tune out the cacophony of politics until they recover from their New Year's Eve hangovers? The answers to these questions will dictate whether there will be another turn of the wheel next week in Iowa or whether the contests in both ... But at least the hangover comes during the relative quiet of a New Year's Day morning, not like the cacophony that ensues once the clock strikes midnight. People used to make noise in an attempt to keep away evil spirits. Although, if I was an evil ... The city is an architectural cacophony leavened by occasional snippets of harmony. Most striking is the contrast between the old city and the crushing march of the new. Reams have been written bemoaning the pitiless destruction of the hutongs , the ... And if that isn't enough of a political cacophony, don't forget Pakistan has a goodly supply of nuclear weapons. Perhaps only a fool would claim to know who sent the assassin to Rawalpindi, but it does not take a genius to appreciate the magnitude of ... Or will they tune out the cacophony of politics until they recover from their New Year's Eve hangovers? The answers to these questions will dictate whether there will be another turn of the wheel next week in Iowa or whether the contests in both ... But this has caused catch-phrase cacophony. Supporters arriving for her rally at a school here in Lawton were handed brochures promising "Ready to Lead. Ready for Change" but also displaying the "Let the Conversation Begin" mantra. Handed a list of ... Will my little snork lead to a non-stop cacophony of mucus-busting? Every time I hear a snork, I just cringe, because it sounds absolutely disgusting. I can imagine the large glob of goo that a snorker has dislodged from his throat, and it makes ... Piano keys splatter around “Eat Him by His Own Light,” turning what was a relatively pretty violin piece into something a bit more sinister, and the machine-like rhythms of “Proven Lands” are a dizzying cacophony of sounds, providing a ... Others create a cacophony of bleeps, ringtones and pop music. New laws give teachers the right to confiscate such items if they see them in class. Mr Brennan said: “It is rightly down to schools to decide how best to deal with electronic equipment ... The noise has become unbearable in the winter season as we are putting the air conditioners off, which makes the construction cacophony highly audible inside the house." The manager of a residential building said he cannot say whether the ...
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