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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Cecilia Bartoli
... ever chosen for the Met’s Young Artists’ Program, and she was simultaneously picked for the role of Barbarina in a production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” Other cast members included soprano Renee Fleming, mezzo Cecilia Bartoli and ... MARIA CECILIA BARTOLI, MEZZO-SOPRANO (Decca) Cecilia Bartoli, the most popular Italian female singer of recent years, has issued another imaginative CD, this one devoted not to a single composer, as in her tributes to Salieri and Gluck, but to another ... Maria," Cecilia Bartoli (Decca, $17.98 ). It is not Leonard Bernstein's Maria that famed mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli is channeling in this charming disc, but the ghost of one of her most renowned predecessors: the diva Maria Malibran, whose favorite ... Zürich boasts an important, long opera season. Alongside noteworthy guests (Cecilia Bartoli loves it), there is a core company of both leading and supporting singers. Zürich boasts an important, long opera season. Alongside noteworthy guests ... NEW YORK (Billboard) - A bevy of bright vocal stars have been lighting up the classical landscape as 2007 nears its end. Leading the way: perennial superstar mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and her album "Maria," a fascinating and painstakingly ... Juanes, the Colombian singer and songwriter, was one of the early proponents of what was called Latin Alternative ... Levon Helm Sings Again Assads Mix Classical Guitar, Brazilian Heritage Cecilia Bartoli: A Diva and Her Obsession Jandek: The Man from ... Rolex has developed close ties with many of today's greatest artists, including Cecilia Bartoli, Renee Fleming, Sylvie Guillem, and Yo-Yo Ma. These relationships have led to Rolex's sponsorship of international events such as Operalia, founded by ... When the soprano Cecilia Bartoli recently told a German newspaper that "opera in Italy is a museum with dusty exhibits," she echoed the composer Luciano Berio, who in exasperation a dozen years ago called Italian opera administrators "crétins" and ... Singer Cecilia Bartoli may have pushed that idea too far for some listeners when she visited Akron, but Ma kept his listeners in mind. He started with a Schubert sonata and a more challenging Shostakovich sonata. Then, to leave us on a high before ... A relatively small group of stars at the pinnacle of the opera world, including Placido Domingo, Renée Fleming and Cecilia Bartoli, tend to head marquees and grab the headlines. But right below them is a stratum of superbly talented singers who ...
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