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: College Dropout
But then a passion for technology was not what spurred Adelson, a college dropout then in his mid-40s, to create this yearly festival for technology buffs held every November in Las Vegas. Rather, friends and former work associates said, he was ... More than once, listening to Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, I'm reminded of Kanye West at the time of The College Dropout. There's the same sense of a prodigiously talented rapper emerging from the shadow of a mentor (once again, Jay-Z), and the same ... Looking again across the room, I considered our panel -- a onetime college dropout, globe-trotting jazz pianist and radio producer turned fair trade consultant, an international attorney nearly driven out of business by the aftermath of 9/11 who ... In the case of Crevice this was Omar Khyam, a college dropout from Crawley, Sussex, who had trained in a militant camp in Kashmir in 2000 and had made a second voyage, into Afghanistan, a year later. By the time the group came together, in Luton ... Adelson, a college dropout then in his mid-40s, to create this yearly festival for technology buffs held every November in Las Vegas. Rather, friends and former work associates said, he was enthralled by the idea of renting convention space for 25 ... A college dropout who abandoned Sam Houston State University after a newly discovered heart condition nullified his baseball scholarship, his creative persona was seemingly forged during a subsequent two year stint working on an oil rig in the Gulf ... The dropout rate for the program is very low and those who are enrolled in the program are getting the medical care they need to stay engaged in their families' lives, as well as school and work. Recently, city officials moved 20 formerly homeless ... Demons, Ghosts And A Dropout Pig Populate Eerie 'Only In Whispers' THREE FRIENDS - from left, Steve Kuster, Matt Ryan and ... They cobbled together a mini-comic about a female vigilante before Kanaras left for college. Kuster and Ryan went on to form ... Guilford's dropout and graduation rates are now among the best when compared to other urban districts in North Carolina. The number of students taking college-level Advanced Placement exams has gone up to 8,393 in 2007 from 2,864 in 2000. Parents ... The number of expulsions and suspensions dropped significantly, nearly in half, although the dropout number increased from 224 to 352. The percent of graduates attending four-college has increased by 8 percent — to 56.8 — good news. Child safety ...
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