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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David Bowie
Britain’s No. 3 political party has turned to avant-garde musician Brian Eno to make their policies sound as good as the albums he produced for U2, David Bowie and Talking Heads. But he caused a stir Thursday in his first interview since being ... Britain's no. 3 political party has turned to musician Brian Eno to make their policies sound as good as the albums he produced for U2, David Bowie and Talking Heads. But he caused a stir Thursday in his first interview since being appointed as ... At the 9:30 club Friday night, he downsized expectations, slinking onstage in a striped T-shirt, scarf and watch cap that made him look more like a Peanuts character than, say, David Bowie. The wardrobe reflected a simplified approach to the music, a ... Exclusive London-based nightclub Embassy has now arrived in the UAE, opening its doors in Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi. In the Eighties, Embassy, London, was frequented by the likes of Freddie Mercury, Siouxsie Sioux, David Bowie, Boy George, Eddie ... Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, David Bowie, Judy Collins and Cyndi Lauper are among those who have covered his songs. Though not as well known as his contemporary, Edith Piaf, Brel is revered by a cult following who hear in his voice and in his lyrics ... And David Bowie. And Peter Gabriel. And Elton John. And the Doors. Pretty much every rock band from A-Z existed because of their ignoring conventional boundaries. Pete's going to keep pretending. Because that's all art really is. You puff up your ... African Americans accused him of "stealing" black music, while Queen and David Bowie accused him of stealing their music (Ice Ice Baby sampled the hit Under Pressure). But if you believe the tittle-tat, they were the least of his problems at the time ... I could only buy a record every few weeks with my allowance, so there are certain David Bowie records that I just know inside and out," he says. "And sometimes I'd buy a Simple Minds record, something that was pretty shitty, but I'd still listen to ... See Aerosmith , see Bob Mould , Richard Ashcroft , Spiritualized or even Queens of the Stone Age - since the man who took all the drugs all the time left; they’ve been terrible. David Bowie ’s been clean for 25 years, which is pretty much when he ... IT'S the traditional folk tale that went from book to musical, from stage production to Disney film. It even became an X-Men TV episode and the title of a David Bowie song. Now, however, Beauty and the Beast - an enchanting tale about how the love of ...
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