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 cheer
The two warring instincts--to warm to Christmas cheer or to cheer an errant Santa chased through Chicago streets for poaching on Salvation Army turf--don't reconcile easily. And the gooey, sentimental side of "Fred Claus," when it arrives, is fairly ... But while I appreciate the Christmas cheer, I'm amazed the sales clerks haven't killed anyone by the middle of November. I'm a big fan of the classics, "Jingle Bells," "Silent Night" and the Sex Pistols' "Have Yourself a Merry $%@&! Christmas ... National non-smoking week was Jan. 20-26. How many knew that? For some reason it slid under the radar when it should have been shouted from the rooftops. They say Jan. 21 is the most depressing date of the year; the Christmas cheer has worn off, the ... Emily Clark took fruit and Christmas cheer to elderly shut-ins and sang carols for them, and Hunter Randolph served as a gofer for his mother, who just gave birth to a new baby boy. Makenzee Giger delivered punch and her homemade Christmas cards to ... Somerton MP David Heath is pictured with bottle of House of Commons whisky signed by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown. SOME belated Christmas cheer was brought to an Ash couple who thought they had ruined a 35-year-old friendship - over a bottle of ... “Have a drink, it will relax you! Let’s have some champagne to celebrate your pregnancy. One drink won’t hurt and it will cheer you up! Come on, it’s Christmas, a drink won’t harm you.” You’ve all heard this sort of invitations and ... ... because millions of holiday greeting cards will pass through them this month en route to recipients looking for some cheer ... The history of the Christmas card The Christmas card, as we know it, originated in England in 1843. An artist named John Calcott ... She said she was accepting donations for Christmas stockings to send to our guys and girls in Iraq,” Knudson said. Knudson decided to organize a local gift program known as Stockings for Soldiers to provide some holiday cheer for her son and his ... Fox Valley Unity Church in Batavia will bring holiday cheer to 60 people this Christmas through its “Giving Tree” program. This is the sixth year of the program. During that time, the church has bought gifts for more than 300 people. – – – The ... Festive cheer for Factory Shop as sales boom Like-for-like sales up 4.7 per cent. ... George Foster, chief executive of The Original Factory Shop said: “Sales over Christmas have been very strong and reflect the ...
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