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 Song
Next to "White Christmas," what is the best-selling Christmas song of all time? "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," of course. Ironically, the song began as an advertising campaign for Montgomery Ward. In 1939, copywriter Robert L. May was asked to ... The worst Christmas song ever, the song that makes me want to sleep straight through to Easter is "The Little Drummer Boy." Not only does it repeat the same annoying phrase over and over - pa-rum pum pum pum - but the song is too unbelievable to ... How to explain the appeal of Alvin and the Chipmunks--the old ones, the ones who hit it big in 1958 with "Witch Doctor" and, more indelibly, "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"? Very simple: Helium voices. People think helium voices are ... Amid all the busy pre-Christmas hoo-hah a slightly tetchy-sounding reader felt moved to object, on the Telegraph website ... It was no surprise that I found myself touring the garden looking for signs of life amid the mess and, with a song ... ... talk turns to made up words, or the geramn habit of squeezing words together into one long word, mention analphabetapolothology when talk turns to the band We Are Scientists, mention the capn'n jazz song of the same name when talk turns to christmas ... He celebrated Christmas with his family and wrote the song "White Christmas," while other Jews penned "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." ("Irving Berlin took the Christ out of Christmas ... Willie also gives out noncommercial DVDs that contain the emotionally powerful “Jimmy’s Road” video, followed by the anti-Iraq War song he wrote on Christmas 2003, “Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth?” In it, Willie bluntly ... Christmas Song -- Mannheim Steamroller 6. "High School Musical 2" soundtrack 7. "Hannah Montana 2" soundtrack/Meet Miley Cyrus -- Miley Cyrus 8. Taylor Swift -- Taylor Swift 9. Carnival Ride -- Carrie Underwood 10. The Ultimate Hits -- Garth Brooks COUNTRY ... Five more blocks away sits the $76,000 house that the songwriter bought the day after Christmas. A good chunk of the down ... In "Skinny Love," a song earning steady airplay on the Current (89.3 FM), his voice rises to a fevered pitch as he sings ... ... of Greenfield Farm scored a personal best in the auction ring with Monday's $1.5 million sale of the broodmare Gwen's Song ... He is a half-brother to stakes-placed Brooklet and Christmas Ship. "I just think he'll be well received in Northern California ...
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