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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Chuck Brown
Affectionately nicknamed the "Godfather of Go-Go," Washington-based singer/ songwriter and guitarist Chuck Brown will ring in the new year Monday with a performance of songs spanning a career almost five decades long at the 9:30 Club, 815 V St. N.W ... Chucky Thompson was just a teenager from the streets of Washington when he became a drummer for Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers in the late '80s. These were the glory days of go-go, when songs could go on for 20 minutes at a time and shows for ... ... cast of Washington-based jazz musicians, the free concert presented a traditional delight right off: vibraphonist Chuck Redd ... the jam also showcased a jazz group composed of teenage area musicians -- pianist Roland Carter, bassist Zach Brown and ... New Year's Eve with the Godfather of Go-Go Chuck Brown, with appearance by Sugar Bear of EU with Mambo Sauce, Dec. 31, $50; 815 V St. N.W., Washington, D.C.; tickets, 703-218-6500 (D.C. Metro Area) or 800-955-5566. Visit http://930.com for additional ... Hot House NYE 2008 at Corktown Tavern: Two of house music's rising stars, Jason Hodges and Chuck Daniels, have had a number of ... With DJs Jenna Brown and Buckwild. (Sorry, "Flavor of Love" fans, not that Buckwild). Open bar 10 p.m.-2 a.m., cash bar 2-4 a ... ABC-27’s Chuck Rhodes was the guest moderator of the event. Ben edged out fellow classmate Mark Shelley in the championship ... The other finalists in the school competition included eighth graders Nathaniel Brown, Amanda Rheam, Lexy Seidel and Jesse ... Gladwell gives two examples of such disqualifying phrases. ("Brown," and "nice Tits !"). There are similar Disqualifying ... Dick Lugar and Chuck Hagel. Forget that this is a cliche appeal to hack Washington bipartisanism, that Sen. Hagel's reputation ... Asked for his thoughts about Dan Connor, Lane said he didn't think that going against the 2007 Chuck Bednarik Award winner ... Holdovers Bani Gbadyu, Dontey Brown and Josh Hull all have more experience than Colasanti, the blue-chip freshman. But many ... ... in hot oil, just to brown it, then take a couple of pint basins full of chopped onions, carrots, celery and leeks (whiz them all in the blender to save time) and brown them in the pan you used for the lamb, adding more oil if you have to. Chuck in ... On the very fast "Sweet Georgia Brown," Fortune swings with melodic grace, with Johns' tantalizing drum work providing sizzling undercurrent. Also on hand: "Charade" as a bustling waltz, "¤'Round Midnight" as a poignant ballad. "We Used to Dance ...
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