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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Dave Koz
Not only do we hear a stripped down version of Ari's exquisite voice, but the saxophone of multi Grammy winning artist Dave Koz. Ari said that getting Dave Koz to play on the album was icing on the cake. Not listed on the album is an instrumental ... Dave Koz, $107.50-$85, 8:30 p.m. Philips Arena (1 Philips Drive, 404-878-3000, www.philipsarena.com) • Dec. 30-31: Widespread Panic, $49.50 both nights, 8 p.m. Dec. 30 and 9 p.m. Dec. 31. Symphony Hall Atlanta (1280 Peachtree St., 404-733-5000) ... He'll be coming back to town with Dave Koz and Friends a Smooth Jazz Christmas show at the Hippodrome Monday, November 26. Butler's got a new CD in store now called Brand New Day, which is actually a gospel CD. My smooth jazz pick of the week is a ... While the disc features jazz artists such as Chick Corea, Jeff Lorber, Dave Koz and Najee, not all the music played on Local on the 8s is jazz. Sometimes it's light rock or holiday tunes. But most all of it's instrumental. "We tested some vocals, but ... He's a real find - a burnished baritone in the Al Hibbler/Arthur Prysock tradition. For smooth jazz fans, Dave Koz's "Memories of A Winters Night" (Capitol, B) and "Peter White Christmas" (Artizen Music Group, B-) fill the bill, though the latter ... Johnson Blvd., Sun City West. $34.50-$54.50. 623-544-2888, maricopacountyeventscenter.com . 9) Dave Koz & Friends Smooth Jazz Christmas The sax master celebrates 10 years of holiday tours with guitarist Jonathan Butler, bassist (and ex-Phoenix ... Dave Koz and Friends Smooth Jazz Christmas Evoking "Memories of a Winter's Night" -- the name of the jazz saxophonist's latest album -- Dave Koz brings Jonathan Butler, Wayman Tisdale and Kimberley Locke along for the ride. At the Commerce Bank ... Dave Koz has a secret. OK, maybe not a secret, but certainly an ironic twist to his life. The guy who has fronted a successful Christmas tour for a decade and put out three CDs of Christmas music never celebrated Christmas as a kid. “I grew up ... This year, new holiday albums from Josh Groban, Amy Grant and Dave Koz will try to push their way onto the list, along with Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You," which was a surprise top-seller last year. -Glenn Gamboa QUOTABLE 'I do my own ... Then catch the Oak Ridge Boys' country-flavored "Christmas Cookies Tour 2007" (Moore Theatre, Dec. 4); jazzman Dave Koz headlining "A Smooth Jazz Christmas" (Dec. 16 at the Temple Theatre in Tacoma); Brian Culbertson, who headlines the "Soulful ...
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