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: Damnation and The Day
Paul also is honest, and anyone who doesn't respect that deserves damnation to a netherworld of listening to Hillary Clinton's ... Conspiracy is their stock-in-trade, and every day or event is an exciting new episode. It's not that things aren't ... ... limning weird worlds and horrific situations. (Some of Lanagan's themes are infanticide, invasion, bereavement, damnation ... Gonzo romps like Eileen Gunn's "Up the Fire Road"; and sober day-after-tomorrow tales like Maureen McHugh's "The Lost Boy ... ... it "the mountain," but it lacks geologic permanence. Like its neighbor Mt. St. Helens, Rainier could blow apart some day. ... Despair, Damnation Peak... Another interesting settlement that might intrigue future anthropologists is Newhalem, the town that ... ... the young people are engaging in unprotected sex - and right their on campuses - despite all the fiery preaching about damnation ... are truckloads of beautiful women living in the ghettos who are auctioning themselves to the highest bidder every day ... Brown has realized that the hellfire and damnation style of preaching and protesting don’t work when it comes to converting ... The article continues, “On Exodus’ opening day, Brown’s comments were no more reserved. To a stand-up applause, he ... ... she may come to respect that enjoying one’s homosexuality is not something to be ashamed of, worthy of eternal damnation. Or ... 60s with filler from her gospel albums and early standards that have NOTHING to do with Christmas. “Oh Happy Day ... ... Doom, her mother's sister, has pretty much refused to come out of her bedroom for almost seven decades, ever since the day ... well, who wouldn't be, in such a situation?), while Amos, Judith's husband, ignores the farm in favor of the hell-and-damnation ... ... entry started as another blast at the political madness of our present age...and was going to attempt to find logic or damnation ... Wish the world well this day, and pursue indoor activities that are pleasurable to you. If you can,look out at the world ... A friend of mine took a bus down to visit me and had 9 year old seat mate throwing out warnings of hell and damnation at her for ... on that site about the requirement for drivers' licenses, and that reminds me of a good friend of mine who one day showed ... ... the same time to register their silly clown cars," he writes, banishing the lot of them to a fate worse than eternal damnation. ... That was a bitter day. Bitter, yes, it's a thread that runs throughout the genre. Although few of the haters claim to be so ...
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