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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Daler Mehndi
Music composer M.M. Keeravani gets bhangra king Daler Mehndi to croon the number - perhaps his first song in a southern Indian language. The music is in sync with Daler's singing - folksy and lilting rhythm with verve and pep. (c) Indo-Asian News ... The Punjab Government is gearing up to take on the central water commission (CWC) which it feels is “clearly biased” against the state and is “blatantly favouring” Haryana on the issue of Hansi-Butana branch, a multi-purpose link channel. In ... The inspirational title track by Daler Mehndi with all its ‘josh’ will find a place in India’s next big football tournament. Yes, there is an item number— Billo Rani set in a qawwali mood and having an unconventional pair of singers (Richa ... A cricket match is a giant stage with lights, replay screens and DJ’s who belt out Daler Mehndi, Jassi — and Chakde India. Putting a match together means attending to a million things, and making sure of the smallest, minutest detail. .There is ... Even VIPs, from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Babubhai Katara to singers Daler Mehndi and Dolly Malkit, have been accused of illegal human trafficking of youth from Punjab. Over 1,500 youth have already been killed or are missing after being ... He also assured Daler Mehndi that he did not need to fear Punjab police anymore. “I can understand his emotions. But now there is no need for him to fear them. Our government has full respect for artistes and we will give their due to them,” he ... Vijay Inder Singla, president of the Punjab State Youth Congress, today held a march and burnt an effigy of singer Daler Mehndi in protest against Daler’s use of “rough and indecent” language against former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh. Three ... Vishal Bharadwaj gets into vocal undertones for bunch of chain-smokers along with Sukhwinder Singh and Daler Mehndi in supple vocal textures to deliver a carefree intoxicating feel. Even its Sufi affixation in rhythmical flows proves inadequate to ... Black” in which he has sung for the first time with legendary signer Asha Bhosle and brother Daler Mehndi. The film starring Suniel Shetty and Arshad Warsi is releasing Oct 5. “I am really excited as for the first time I am singing with Ashaji and ... Pop singer Daler Mehndi has filed a defamation suit against a Punjab Congress functionary (TOI Photo) NEW DELHI: Pop singer Daler Singh Mehndi has filed a defamation suit in a court here against a Punjab Congress functionary who allegedly threatened ...
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