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: Christmastime
I meet for a 7:30 breakfast meeting every Thursday. Myself and four other local businessmen from my church have been meeting for years in our little 'accountability' group. However, this week at Family Ties restaurant (across from City Hall) amongst ... They complain about the rising number of butchers that sell pork, and they condemn the proliferation of Christmas trees, tinsel and plastic Santa Claus dolls that go on sale at shops around the country around Christmastime to cater to the growing ... The president and Bruni took a Christmastime trip to Egypt aboard the private jet of Vincent Bollore, the French financier. They have also traveled together to Jordan. In a survey by Paris-based polling company LH2 published on Jan. 7 by Liberation ... It had been trading at more than $22 around Christmastime before sharply dipping in the past week. On Tuesday, the company spent much of the day trading at between $19.50 and $19.80 before it took a sharp nosedive and then equally sharp recovery just ... Media coverage of the divorced president's Christmastime trip to Egypt with Bruni aboard the private jet of French financier Vincent Bollore, along with concern over accelerating inflation, have contributed to Sarkozy's declining approval rating. It ... If grandma hails from anywhere north of the Alps, chances are she doused you with some variation of the stuff as a tot whenever a series of coughs followed the occasional sniffle — especially around Christmastime. Mulled wine to the monolingual ... At Christmastime, each room had its own tree complete with lights and decorations, many of which we made. Soon, presents would appear under the trees, as we used to draw names for small gifts from our age brackets. Santa always made an appearance ... Getter, who by this time had started to call Racheal once a year at Christmastime, was undaunted. The safari, which got her closer in proximity to Racheal, also left her wanting more. “It satisfied me for awhile,” Getter said. “But after that I ... ... songleader at St. Benedict Roman Catholic Church on Eggert Road and Main Street in Amherst. "That was fun," she recalled. "You get worn out, but you come home singing and happy. That was the ideal job, even after all those Masses at Christmastime." At Christmastime, my father's brother, our Uncle Sam would dress up as Santa Claus and surprise all of us when he walked into the house shouting a hearty 'Ho, Ho, Ho!'" "My uncle kept up this family tradition for many years. Christmas just wasn t the ...
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