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: Dance With Me
Which album is gonna make me dance like a mescaline-addled chimpanzee at a seventies-themed roller disco, on the moon, with hit-and-miss gravity, while sucking sherbet lemons and dabbing acid tabs onto my moistened ear lobes? Good question! Seriously ... For years, I've had people come up to me and say, 'That album helped me through a really difficult time' or say 'This song was the first dance at our wedding,' but something like the Beaconsfield incident, that was so much heavier. It was about ... Cloverfield. (PG-13) Paramount (84 min.). Directed by Matt Reeves. With Michael Stahl-David, T.J. Miller, Jessica Lucas ... Username (Don't Have a Username? Sign up here ): Password: Remember Me Of course I was only about four, but the music stayed with me. I didn’t dance then but I do remember it. I think my mom wanted me to be around it and have that influence.” Manola added, “It wasn’t a big deal to go out dancing back then ... ... better than singing,’’ Clinton said Monday during a taping of ‘‘The Tyra Banks Show.’’ ‘‘You do not want me ... President Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton dance at the New England Ball in 1997. (AP file) A graduation or a prom dance would be great." Co-star Lucas Gabreel (self-absorbed Sharpay's frustrated younger brother/lapdog) thought "all of the Wildcats should go into space - 'High School Musical With Aliens.'" One critic wondered if Marsh had the ... QUEBEC CITY - This place is so terrific, it doesn't really need roaming costumed opera singers, fireworks, a floating dance ... French guy," explained Danny Pelchat, a Quebecer whose role in this story will be evident soon, "he will understand me ... The Same Old Song and Dance? After the success of Hob El-Banat, acclaimed director Khaled El-Hagar changes the tempo with a big ... Anyway, both made me think it a good idea to make a musical using actors who weren’t necessarily singers. Maybe because ... Why don't we ever dance that way? Me: Because I would look stupid! My wife: No, you'd pretty good at it. Me: By "pretty good," you mean "really stupid," right? My wife: I'm going to call around and see if we can take lessons. Me: (whimpers ... To me, it's where people can get away, drink, dance, listen to the music. That's what I think a honky-tonk should be, and it should lack pretension." It's no small feat maintaining a honky-tonk haven in a city known more for P. Diddy, but Grace, whose ...
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