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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Clannad
Clannad (KEY), 5. Little Busters! (KEY). UK : 1. Football Manager 2008 (Sega), 2. The Orange Box (EA Games), 3. The Sims 2 (EA Games), 4. The Witcher (Atari), 5. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami). Though it no longer tops cross-platform sales, The ... Celtic chanteuse , best known for her work fronting Clannad, will surely warm your Irish heart. Tin Angel, 20 S. 2nd St., 8 p.m. Tuesday, $22, 215-928-0770. George Stanford: One of the many talents in the group Townhall, Stanford is stepping out with ... Set 2” — The 1980s British TV take on Robin Hood concludes with the final 13 episodes of the series starring Jason Connery and Ray Winstone. The five-disc set also has commentary and a segment on Clannad, the Irish band that provided the show’s ... In addition to Christy Moore's chart success, Hennessy's songs were carried to the top of the Irish charts by two other singers - Frances Black with All the Lies That You Told Me, and Maire Brennan from the band Clannad with Oh Jealous Heart. Nizlopi ... He has since been behind the mixing desk for artists like Paul Brady, Elvis Costello, Rod Stewart, Indigo Girls, Sinéad O'Connor and Clannad. He lives with his wife in Okanawa, Japan for six months of the year and spends the other six back in ... In 1999, he produced 'Saltwater' with Marie Brennan of the Celtic band Clannad and in 2000 he provided ageing pop singer Bryan Adams with some much needed credibility by offering him the vocals on 'Don't Give Up'. The partnership paid off with the ... His songs became a magnet for other artists, among them Eleanor Shanley and Tanita Tikaram, while Frances Black and Máire Brennan of Clannad had No 1 Irish hits with covers of "All the Lies That You Told Me" and "Oh Jealous Heart" respectively ... His tracks 'Don't Forget Your Shovel' and 'All The Lies That You Told Me' were made famous by Christy Moore and Mary Black respectively, while artists like Clannad and Nizlopi have also covered his songs. The 62-year-old had been touring in Ireland ... Mr Hennessy also wrote a number one song, 'Oh Jealous Heart', for Marie Brennan of Clannad, and later saw Frances Black take 'All the lies that you told me' to the top of the charts. "His songs painted really beautiful pictures," Ms Black said ... ... when he wrote his first song and his first album - `The Green Album` - was released in 1972. A number of now legendary Irish artists attained their first `No 1s` covering his songs, including Christy Moore, Frances Black and Maire Brennan from Clannad ...
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