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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Charles, Ray
It adds up to a lively, all-covers mélange of retro movie themes by Henry Mancini and Nelson Riddle, R&B nuggets by Ray Charles and Booker T. & the MG's, rearranged jazz tunes by Duke Ellington and Roland Kirk, snappy surf-rock by Duane Eddy, and ... That placed the emphasis less on selling albums and more on satisfying her own preferences one last time, finding room amidst selections from the Great American Songbook for Ray Charles and the Eagles. Byrne often kept her fluid voice, an instrument ... He was born Jan. 31, 1945, in Warren, a son of Charles M. and Genevieve Coons Mansfield. He was employed in the sawmill industry and attended Bristolville Church of the Brethren. His most precious joys in life were his wife, family and grandchildren ... He hit the right notes and he has style, but he doesn't have a voice, any more than Ray Charles singing "Georgia" shows any vocal talent. Piano? Yes. Style? Yes. But as Simon would quickly say, "'American Idol' is a talent show for ... A TRIBUTE TO RAY CHARLES, 8 p.m. Jan. 19 & 3:30 p.m. Jan. 20, Hemmens Theatre, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin. Featuring Dee Daniels Tickets: $25-$63 at 847-888-4000 or www.elginsymphony.org . SOULJA BOY, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 23, Genesee Theatre, 203 N. Genesee St ... Few artists have successfully recorded in as many genres of music as Van Morrison, and even fewer have remained as relevant for as long (only Ray Charles, with whom Van collaborated, comes to mind). Morrison has done so by constantly moving forward ... Charles Ray Smith, 22, of Detroit is jailed on murder, rape, robbery and home invasion charges, stemming from the June 5 kidnapping and double slaying of two Pontiac men. The third man arrested in connection with the June 5 kidnapping and subsequent ... He and Jones join an impressive group of junior running backs available that includes Texas' Jamaal Charles, Clemson's James Davis, Illinois' Rashard Mendenhall, Rutgers' Ray Rice, West Virginia's Steve Slaton, Central Florida's Kevin Smith and ... As a teenager he played in garage bands in North Lauderdale, backed musicians Ray Charles and Dizzy Gillespie in orchestras and worked as a producer for rap group 2 Live Crew at the height of their notoriety. ''He's not just a composer,'' said author ... McFadden and Jones join an impressive group of running backs who declared early for the draft, including Central Florida's Kevin Smith, Texas' Jamaal Charles, Rutgers' Ray Rice, West Virginia's Steve Slaton and Clemson's James "Lightning'' Davis
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