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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Cesaria Evora
The islands of Cape Verde off the West Coast of Africa have been firmly put on the musical map by the languorous, sultry voice of Cesaria Evora. Following the path she has forged, a large number of young artists are showing off other aspects of the ... Artists range from Shirley Bassey to Thievery Corporation to Cesaria Evora. Frills: "Luxurious" only begins to describe the tasseled, red cloth-shrouded cabinet that encloses the 10 gold discs, each in its own drawer. Bilingual booklet adds credits ... ... artists in the world have donated songs 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 ... The soulful Cape Verdean chanteuse sings songs that connect the fado of Portugal to the choro of Brazil and extend to the musical forms of her native African land. With Seu Jorge. Read Editorial Review Although she's still hailed as the queen (or ... As a reporter, Elizabeth has profiled India.Arie, Macy Gray, Cesaria Evora, the band Pearl Jam, the late Eva Cassidy, and Tori Amos. She has reported on a range of issues, from arts education and funding to the impact of global trade on the American ... Bregović has composed for such varied artists such as Iggy Pop and Cesaria Evora, having originally earned his fame by wielding a guitar with his rock band Bijelo Dugme, a group that rose to stardom and set the groundwork for the Yugoslav rock scene ... Age Pryor (NZ), An Emerald City (NZ), Beirut (USA), Black Grace (NZ), Cesaria Evora (Cape Verde), Clube do Balanco (Brazil), David D’Or (Israel), Dr Natesan Ramani (India), Farafina (Burkina Faso), Green Fire Islands (NZ), Gyuto Monks (Tibet ... The album contains 11 original titles by 37 of the continent's most famous musicians such as Cesaria Evora of Cape Verde, Cheb Mami of Algeria and Manu Dibango of Cameroon. It is "the starting point of a real battle against Aids and not just words in ... In the president's collection are great African musicians, such as Letta Mbulu and Caiphus Semenya, Sibongile Khumalo, Louis Moholo, Ringo Madlingozi, Hugh Masekela, Sylvia Mdunyelwa, Jimmy Dludlu, Jonas Gwangwa, Cape Verde diva Césaria Évora and ... One of soul and gospels most recognised and cherished voices, Mavis Staples, has been confirmed for the three-day festival and joins a stunning line-up of international performers including the Grammy-award winning "barefoot diva" Cesária Évora ...
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