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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Dark Reality
Variant Frequencies features stories "blending gothic horror with space adventure, dark fantasy with sci-fi, recalling the reality-bending vibes of 'The Twilight Zone' and offering something wholly unique that fits in between and outside," reads the ... All these shows have been dark since Nov. 5, the day writers went on strike. Nearly two weeks ago, in an attempt to break ... has put some 12,000 writers out of work, shut down production of most television shows and will soon deliver much more reality ... Neuhaus calls the book "stunning," and adds that it "casts light into dark and previously neglected corners of the horror ... History, Myth, Reality"; "Germany: A New History") was commissioned by Zaccheus Press to prepare the first English-language ... To think about this lovable movie guy and to learn he had a human and quite dark side . . . It's a story that turns reality on its head and makes you question anything you think you know about anyone in Hollywood." Outlook for '08: Min says readers ... ... dark night for the LGBT community of the Carolinas and particularly for Greenville, S.C. On that evening, openly gay Sean Kennedy, 20, was killed by a senseless hate crime. His death at the hands of a homophobic teenager underscored the stark reality ... The more complicated reality is that Mr. McCain supported legislation that would allow illegal immigrants who come forward ... We are in the dark on all of these questions. ... See also: Jay Cost, who offers more reasons for caution but not dismissal ... Although the late night talk shows immediately went dark, the most popular series — the ones that draw the big audiences ... few mid-season replacement series, some recycled cable shows, newsmagazines — and a heavy dose of new and returning reality ... But with each passing week his confidence has grown, and he was recently described as the "dark horse" of the competition ... Scottish survivors of music reality TV DARIUS DANESH, POP IDOL 2002 AT THE 2002 Pop Idol auditions, self-regarding, ponytailed ... They didn't call it Christmas, since Christ hadn't arrived yet, but like us they were coping with the fact that they were stuck in late December, the days were short and dark, and they badly needed a vision of better times coming. And so ... The Queen K Highway is so dark that you look down and can barely see your white running shoes. In the gloom, feet shuffle ... And like the rest of the region, I watched for three days as the events unfolded on television like a warped reality show. ...
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