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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Coal Chamber
Wage negotiations in the coal sector have been postponed to July 31, after the chamber requested employers and worker representatives to assess new cost demands, solidarity spokesperson Reint Dykema said on ... Given the need for a huge investment in infrastructure, demand in basic commodities like cement, steel, coal and electricity would remain robust. The only issue is overcoming supply constraints," chamber President Venugopal Dhoot said. However ... In fact, I've got one guy in mind who really should have a lump of coal coming his way." The DSCC pitch ends with a link to ... from his state had to pay their own way if they wanted to go home for Christmas, his office contacted the Nebraska Chamber of ... Unfortunately, it was a lump of coal: the Farm Bill. Congress had an opportunity to wean large commercial farming operations ... Steve Chabot, Jean Schmidt and Geoff Davis, Republicans all, opposed the House version of the farm bill when the lower chamber ... Somerset coal firm adding 150 jobs Overseas market prompts move Kecia Bal, Special to the Times-News FRIEDENS, Pa. — Coal ... The county is a wonderful place to live,” said Parke, former Somerset County Chamber of Commerce executive director. Parke ... The much-anticipated (in certain circles, anyway) lawsuit by lobbyists to block the new campaign finance law scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1 and further limit, or ban outright, so-called “pay-to-play” contributions by those who do business ... To remove anomalies in the customs duty structure, the chamber suggested that government should reduce duties on various fuel oils from 10 per cent to 5 per cent and on metallurgical coal from 5 per cent to 2 per cent. The chamber also made a case for ... ... national average during the first quarter of 2007, according to the Cost of Living Index, published by the American Chamber of ... Passed unanimously by the commission on Dec. 17, the money will come from a coal severance fund, and an employee with the ... The main lines transport 98.6% of iron and manganese ores, 92.3% of ferrous metals, 87.2% of the coal, 88.1% of the total ... Almost simultaneously with these events, the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation completed an audit of MRT and ... Ralhan, Handtool Manufacturers Association; Vinod Thapar, Knitwear Club; and Inderjit Singh Navyug, Chamber of Industrial and ... The government’s decision to increase the coal rates by Rs 400 per tonne would result in an increase of Rs 100 per 1,000 ...
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