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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Album: Caetano Veloso
CAETANO VELOSO. The Grammy-winning singer-composer from Brazil has recorded dozens of albums during the past 30-plus years. He's performing Monday and Tuesday nights at the Nokia Theatre Times Square in Manhattan. Call TicketMaster, 212-307-7171. ... The latter part of the set, when he stands up and straps on an electric guitar, starts to move further afield, as the music takes on touches of reggae, rock and, in a cover of Caetano Veloso's "Lost in the Paradise," bossa nova. But the entire set ... Caetano Veloso is in a tight spot. It's Dec. 27, 1968, and the Brazilian musician, visionary and activist is arrested, taken to the army headquarters of Marechal Deodoro in Rio de Janeiro and has his long hair forcibly shaven. Brazil's military ... Band: Caetano Veloso, Pedro Sá, Ricardo Dias Gomez, Marcello Collado. At 65, an age when classic rockers move into retrospective mode, looking back and slowing down, Brazilian superstar singer/songwriter/author Caetano Veloso remains a restless ... Caetano Veloso is arguably the most sophisticated pop artist anywhere. Everything he does, and has done since the '60s, is popular music as high art. Only David Byrne can touch him, but Veloso, who's older, offers more: the best aspects of John ... But if not for him, most hipsters wouldn't have Os Mutantes or Caetano Veloso on their iPods. (M.W.) Zoë/Kinky . Pop's "Latin explosions" have come and gone, but bands like Zoë and Kinky, from Mexico City, point to a different future. Zoë takes ... ... to the A Very Special Christmas albums including Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire, Smashing Pumpkins, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Enrique Iglesias, Cesaria Evora, Gipsy Kings, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso ... An Asphalt Stars Prods. presentation. (International sales: The Film Sales Co., New York.) Produced by Julia Scott, Tina Mascara, Guido Santi, James White. Executive producers, White, Andrew Herwitz. Directed by Guido Santi, Tina Mascara. With: Don ... Columbus no-fi noise-rockers Psychedelic Horseshit stumble into town on the heels of their debut full-length, Magic Flowers Droned , out on experimental stalwart Siltbreeze. An ear-scorching 31-minute slab of ramshackle beats, faux Julian Casablancas ... Caetano Veloso Masonic Center, 1111 California; 1-866-920-5299. 8pm, $25-88. See Picks, page 20. Wilson Gil and the Wilful Sinners, Culann's Hounds, Inferno of Joy Fat City, 314 11th St; 861-2890. 9pm. BAY AREA Beltaine's Fire, Scott Simon Nomad Café. 7 ...
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