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: Chant
So easy it is to chant, “change… experience”. They are such empty phrases in themselves. Change from what? Experience at what? I’m voting for Obama because he puts his money where his mouth is. His campaign has refused to take ... Often people would follow them and chant, "mazungu," they said. "We were there for three years but whenever we went to town people would stare at us," Kate Walsh said. Her husband agreed. "We were entertainment. It was like we were from Mars," he said. ... He eventually moved that act onto the top of the Orioles dugout, and persuaded an entire stadium to chant along. But it was the metal slabs of Section 34 where he was most at home. And, as its legend grew, it became the place to be on weekend nights ... That's why Senator Obama excites us and excites the country," Taylor said, following cheers and the union chant "Si se puede." Obama chanted the English translation, "Yes we can," in his concession speech Tuesday. The endorsement was on behalf of ... Jan. 9: Supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga chant anti-government slogans at a barricade in Kisumu, western Kenya. Jan. 9: Supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga chant anti-government slogans at a barricade in Kisumu, western Kenya ... But as he kneels to chant a sutra before an altar in the corner of the room, the people around him continue to chat, and his rhythmic prayers can only just be heard above a Blue Note jazz track. Minutes later Taguchi is back in his seat, glass in hand ... ... observers reported in the Masvingo district in southern Zimbabwe, ox-drawn plows being distributed by the government were allocated only to people holding cards showing they were dues-paying members of the ruling ZANU PF party and who could chant ... The feminist-solidarity vote for Hillary Clinton got another boost during a final speech in Salem, New Hampshire, when two young men began heckling her with the sexist chant, “Iron my shirts!” Upon hearing the obnoxious chant, Clinton called ... At this point, Obama's group employs its campaign chant: “Fired up! Ready to go!” Richardson's camp, no longer with a viable candidate, is wondering where to throw its loyalties. “I'm going to Obama,” one guy says. “Good luck to everybody ... ... over for a second time and that they feel a champion should be someone who when holding the belt, should be able to compete on a nightly basis (and esp. on the biggest shows of the year), and if not drop it to someone who will, hence the chant at ...
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