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: Crunch
The cold blast of America's economic downturn has blown into McDonald's. The world's biggest fast food chain surprised Wall Street today with a warning that consumers were cutting back on Big Macs and fries. Widely seen as relatively immune to ... JOHANNESBURG, Jan 28 (Reuters) - South Africa's critical electricity crunch has raised doubts over whether infrastructure can keep pace with an economic boom while the country prepares to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament. South Africa is ... Shore Capital is raising a new £40m venture capital trust, designed to allow private investors the chance to cash in on opportunities arising from the credit crunch. The Puma "credit crunch" VCT will be offering mezzanine finance and other secured ... The bid battles for Rio Tinto and Xstrata, two of the world's largest mining groups, are set to heat up over the coming weeks as their respective predators, BHP Billiton and Brazilian group Vale, have to decide whether to launch formal offers. BHP ... The total value of UK investment funds was £468bn in December, a rise of just 1% on November, said the Investment Management Association (IMA). Gross investment sales fell to £8.4bn, but investors withdrew more than they paid in, leaving the ... Dodgers Los Angeles has enough of an outfield crunch to worry about without adding Bonds to the mix, but an outfield of Bonds, Andruw Jones , and Matt Kemp would be superior to any combination they could conjure up out of their current quartet, which ... I grew up on a steady breakfast of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and the Washington Post . Heck, I worked once at the Post , and I have to say The Words of Dezy makes an interesting point about the Post's hidden? policy to womens' sports . The Ramble had a ... When it released third-quarter earnings in October, [Countrywide] said it believed it had reached the 'trough' of the credit crunch, and said it expected to be profitable in the fourth quarter and 2008. This optimism now seems, at best, premature ... The severe credit crunch that hit in August has made the troubles in housing worse because it has prompted banks and other lenders to tighten their standards, making it harder for prospective buyers to qualify for loans. Also adding to the problems ... Related crises in the U.S. housing market and the subprime mortgage sector and their effects - a credit crunch and big losses for big banks - have been the biggest economic worries. While Fed cuts and a planned $150 billion economic stimulus package ...
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