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: Close Encounters
That jibes with reports from survivors of other close encounters, who have said the animal's eyes are clouded over and hazy. “We don't know, but certainly if there's something wrong with its eyesight then that could help to explain the aggressive ... Compared with the pace, glitz, twist and power of a big US drama, The Palace sounds like François Truffaut’s querulous five-tone calling signal on Close Encounters of the Third Kind – inevitably blown away by just two notes, should the gigantic ... I have had my share of being up close and personal with nature this week. One incident I was able to handle well, but the other, well, I’ll let you decide. Last Saturday when I picked up the cover for my grill on my back porch, there was a quick ... Fortunately, Wincer can handle action sequences and close encounters with equal aplomb, and so "Comanche Moon" seldom stands still for very long. And it's not only the grand old days of the West that are evoked by the film. Some viewers will also be ... A similar feeling permeates There Will Be Blood , which opens with a swelling blast of music against a dark screen (the same way Steven Spielberg opened Close Encounters of the Third Kind ). It is an odd, somewhat dislocating way in which to open a ... He has taken molds of footprints, he has audio tape of the sounds the creatures make in the wild, he has read journals of families that had close encounters with them, and he has mountains of testimony from people who claimed to have seen the primate ... In Iowa, she devoted far more time to acting like a celebrity on the rope lines, shaking hands and taking pictures with voters, because some of her advisers believed that Iowans wanted those up-close encounters. Former President Bill Clinton also ... ANN ARBOR, Mich. - No more cozy gatherings in living rooms, no more up-close-and-personal encounters with the candidates. Real American presidential campaigning returned in all of its television and tarmac glory this week, as Republican Sen. John ... A home movie by a Lebanon man will soon have a new home of its own -- the Library of Congress. "Our Day" joined "12 Angry Men," "Oklahoma!" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" among the 25 movies selected for inclusion on the National Film ... The park service knows him as #81. He's a 4 1/2-year-old bull. Since he's been roaming the Cosby area of the foothills, Derek Groom has had a few close encounters with him. "We saw it one evening, then we saw it four or five days in a row," Groom ...
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