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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Cold Fusion
Zounds. According to the front page of the Dec. 21 Tribune , the University of Utah is creating grand illusions again. About 19 years ago we became a nationwide joke on late night TV as a result of the U. of U.'s claimed discovery of cold fusion. The ... You are right, the war in Iraq is an issue, however if we had cold fusion or hydrogen power today which you and yours were so adamant about preventing we would have no interest in the region would we? Good attempt to divert attention from your ... ... spring for his new, ingeniously titled Live at the Jazz Factory. The album takes bold, boppish strolls outside of the fusion ... Who cold have foreseen that an evening of Irish storytelling, music and dance by artists who, despite impressive dossiers ... Likewise, the growth of Asian and Asian-themed establishments, from hibachi houses to fusion extravaganzas, marked the calendar ... Grasso's and 105 Harbor in Cold Spring Harbor made changes and improved. George Martin's Coastal Grill brought splashy ... ... marry the julienne fruit with tuna, lemongrass, fish sauce, sugar and lime in a signature dish at Pearl, a Pan-Asian fusion ... Fernandez uses little buds of Thai basil to garnish seared Kobe, roasted peanuts, scallions and cold sesame noodles. And he ... And by fusion I mean a conglomeration of Asian styles, ingredients and flavors, not the old-fashioned fusion, meaning east ... Dropped by Chocolate Bar in Decatur with a friend a few cold nights back and they were serving — to my surprise — a ... Thus Pennant Rhea, editor of THE ECONOMIST Magazine, lamented that "the post-war welfare system was an import from Marxism forced upon the rich by the Cold War" (Lorimer,1997:14). However, by the end of the 1960s inflationary conditions set the ... So what will these precocious high school students do with their newfound fame and $1,000 in cold hard cash? "I don't know. Buy Pixie Stix?" ponders singer/guitarist Joe Endozo. Bassist Sam Schiff of West Brighton concurred with his bandmate's ... Likewise, you don't have to be a gourmet to sample gazpacho, a cold soup from the same part of Europe that blends ... All the performances will be a mix of traditional dances and modern flamenco fusion -- with dancing definitely encouraged. In ... Like fusion cooking, there will be a few chefs who will do molecular gastronomy very well and make it interesting," says ... As a result, restaurant-goers can expect to find charcuterie platters which are chefs' homemade sausages, cold cuts, pates ...
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