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: Commonplace
January 27, 2008 -- Your statement that chess champ Bobby Fischer's declaration that "the object is to crush the other man's mind" is a "sign of a disturbed personality" is wrong ("Bobby Fischer, 1943-2008," Editorial, Jan. 19). It is commonplace ... Although their resignations were prompted by a seemingly commonplace dispute with their employers over what the nurses say were broken promises and shabby working conditions involving a total of 26 Filipino nurses and a physical therapist, the 10 ... He was doubtless preaching to the converted (as it were), since in middle-class circles, especially urban ones, faking religion for school admission purposes is as commonplace as organic chicken. That doesn’t mean it’s right. From a parental point ... Air travel was once the prerogative of the affluent. It was only the well-heeled who took to the skies. Such privilege has long since been swept aside - to the extent that plane journeys are now commonplace. Half the UK population flies at least once ... But commonplace dominance is what Camby provides and it is often a footnote to a sexy scoring splurge by Allen Iverson Carmelo Anthony or of late Linas Kleiza. Camby who leads the NBA in 20-board nights is second in the league with 14.4 rebounds ... EVERETT -- Aleksey Sinyagin, 31, grew up in Russia, where ice skating is as commonplace as baseball in America. Thing is, he never tried skating himself. On Saturday, Sinyagin was among roughly 140 people who enjoyed an afternoon of free ice skating ... It was hoped the people who ascended to the top ranks of the cruise-ship industry would be well-educated, well-read, thoughtful people. Turns out, they are commonplace, dime-a-dozen, mindless oafs. The mispronunciation of the French word masseuse is commonplace. I have heard 'masweez', 'maswoze', and many other variations. Worst of all, the ladies themselves most time mispronounce the word. One of the ways in which French forms the agentive ... We have a window of opportunity here to get people watching Christian television before the novelty wears off and high-definition television becomes commonplace,” said Stevan Speheger, operations manager. WRXY currently has nine full-time employees ... When the governor’s invited to give a presentation or a speech somewhere, it’s now commonplace for one of the initial questions that people ask us to be, ‘Who should we bill (his) lunch to’?” Strickland spokesman Keith Dailey said. “It ...
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