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: Classic Dusty Springfield --..
... backdrop to her most stunning asset - a blue-eyed soul voice to rank among the best of a genre which began with Dusty Springfield ... And you could hear many of the same, classic retro-soul influences at work as she performed a selection of songs from ... ... consistently enjoyable if not always spectacular this season, who'll pay the price for a disastrous cover of Dusty Springfield's ... is, much as you did with the $1 million in diamonds you were rocking, you were merely borrowing Shirley Bassey's classic ... ... such singers as Emmylou Harris, Celine Dion, Carole King, k.d. lang, Martina McBride, Nelly Furtado, Shania Twain, Shelby Lynne, Amy Grant, Celtic Woman, Indigo Girls and the late Dusty Springfield. It was produced by Phil Ramone, who is a classic ... Why, deconstruct classic rock, folk and pop from the '60s via a slam-bang 13-song romp through Dylan, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Cat Stevens, Dusty Springfield, Del Shannon, Goffin/King . . . and up the kitsch ante by offering a suitably "punk ... Amy Winehouse, with her retro Shirley Bassey-meets-Dusty Springfield style, was looking like the big breakout star of the year ... On the classic rock front, reunions are in, with Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, The Police, Genesis, the Eagles and others all ... ... Londoner Adele Adkins (who uses only her first name) has already employed a musical education ranging from Dusty Springfield to ... Universal Music operations president David Joseph calls her debut album, "Rockferry" (A&M/Polydor), "a classic album by ... ... stuff brings to mind Dusty Springfield, in particular the essential "Dusty In Memphis" album, Potter blurted, "Our producer would love you! That's all he would talk about the whole time. That's the platform for everything he does … he's a classic ... A dusty-haired 27-year-old with a boyish face, Quinn was born and raised on a ... of scattered, weed-fueled associations involving Young, the Leopards, and classic ... long-gone saloon where in the early-'70s he and various members of Buffalo Springfield ... Accented with a trippy set and, of course, the namesake wigs, "Beehive" is filled with classic songs from the '60s. This ... The show honors The Supremes, Connie Francis, Janis Joplin, Petula Clark and Dusty Springfield. "This music had a lot of energy and ... ... on the charm of Belle and Sebastian, as well as the classic girl-group hits of the '60s, "Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken" functions as both a response to Cole's song and as a fine contribution to any mix CD that also includes Dusty Springfield's ...
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