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: Christmas Album
While Rudebox, released last Christmas, performed relatively poorly, his new album is being recorded with Guy Chambers, who co-wrote his biggest hits, and Mark Ronson, who produced much of Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, which was 2007's best-selling ... Vocalist Josh Groban saw McKee’s work on YouTube and recruited McKee to play on “Noel,” the Christmas album Groban released in October. With 3.69 million copies sold, “Noel” was the best-selling album of 2007. “I think there’s been a ... The councilors got the idea after a 1999 experiment when officials played Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" album to shoo off their own infestation of teenagers in the Warrawong Westfield shopping mall in Wollongong. (That part isn't really ... Christmas Album Noël Is Top-Selling Album Of The Year Three of Warner Bros. Records artists have also finished the year among the Top Ten best-selling artists of 2007. Josh Groban has emerged at Number 1 with 4.83 million albums sold, a figure that ... ... the $76,000 house that the songwriter bought the day after Christmas. A good chunk of the down payment came from the nine songs he recorded out of life-saving desperation last winter, music that now seems poised to change his life forever. The album ... Then, just below cloud level, he and Stewart gave the first performance of the nostalgic title track from the new album ... So I'm moving to New York cos I've got issues with my sleep,/Looks like Christmas came early, Christmas came early for me." The ... Rock Singer KT Tunstall is to marry her drummer boyfriend after he proposed on Christmas Day. The 32-year-old Scot told of the ... The couple plan to marry this year. Tunstall rose to fame after her 2005 debut album, Eye to the Telescope, sold 4 million ... ... better known as Liam Ford and The Band in Black or Rockabilly, recieved Oven Burner Covers as his gift, meanwhile Barbara Meyer-Spidell of BibitMagnus and Mud River Lee and the Bluegrass Orchestra, picked up a copy of a Liberace Christmas album ... The Rudebox star has also revealed he probably won't release a proper album this year. He said he enjoyed stuffing himself with mince pies in his LA mansion over Christmas - and is tempted to quit showbiz for good. Robbie told fans on his website ... ... St George's Hall at the climax of the free gig to give the first public performance of the title track from his new album ... So I'm moving to New York cos I've got issues with my sleep,/ Looks like Christmas came early, Christmas came early for me ...
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