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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Carlos Gardel
Now the Sunday event at Plaza Dorrego, the heart of San Telmo, is filled with booths selling an array of junk, flashy couples tangoing in the street and imitators of tango singer Carlos Gardel, who died in 1935. One man wears a half-female costume ... Now the Sunday event at Plaza Dorrego, the heart of San Telmo, is filled with booths selling an array of junk, flashy couples tangoing in the street and imitators of tango singer Carlos Gardel, who died in 1935. One man wears a half-female costume ... Lindsay Lohan is taking Tango lessons. The 21-year-old actress - who recently completed 45 days in rehab for alcoholism - is to star in new movie 'Dare to Love Me' about Tango legend Carlos Gardel and needs to learn the sexy Latin dance. A source ... News that the popular Colombian singer Shakira was going to enter the film industry, acting in the movie "Dare to Love Me," which tells the story of Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel's life, is... Nov 7, 2006 Shakira Adds Date in Miami The popular ... The 21-year-old star - who has a small role in Dare to Love Me , a biopic of Tango legend Carlos Gardel which begins shooting later this month - insisted she has no plans to avoid the film industry in Hollywood, just the party scene. When asked if ... Still, she managed to remain working and will appear in 2008’s Dare to Love Me, a biopic about tango legend Carlos Gardel. For these and other stars, it’s not simply a matter of what they're doing--be it drinking, driving or doing drugs--but also ... My friend Jaime Silva loves the Argentine composer Carlos Gardel. He translated one of his pieces for me recently and I found the words to be even more beautiful than the music. This man was quite a poet. So I will be playing¬Ý 'El Dia Que Mi ... There are also the nightly shows, like the one we attended at Esquina Carlos Gardel, where you'll see a fantastically slick but very touristy version of both the music and the dance. It's worth it, particularly for the often excellent orchestras, but ... The singer Carlos Gardel was particularly influential in making the tango fashionable in Europe and the USA. In New York, Gardel was introduced to a 13-year-old bandoneon player, who had taught himself to play Bach preludes on this beast of an ... Carlos Gardel is the greatest, most romantic singer and composer of tango. He died in an air crash in 1935, aged 45 or so; his popularity endures. I went to his tomb at La Chacarita cemetery. There's a life-size statue of him there, handsome and ...
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