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 Lanz
David Lanz, & Gary Stroutsos Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Sat., January 5, 7:30pm Central Scottsdale World Sunday Night Pro Show feat. “Doc” Farm, & guest comics The Comedy Spot Sun., January 6, 8:00pm ... Commercial St., Bellingham; $20-$42, 360-734-6080. David Lanz: 8 tonight, Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle; $27.50-$40, 206-628-0888. Loverboy: 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Emerald Queen Casino, 5700 Pacific Highway E., Fife; $20-$45, 888-831-7655 ... The Grammy-winning duo Eric Tingstad and musical partner Nancy Rumbel will play a holiday concert along with Grammy-nominated pianist David Lanz and flautist Gary Stroutsos. When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday Where: The Washington Center for the Performing ... Grammy winners ("American Acoustic") Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel, Grammy-nominated pianist David Lanz, and flutist Gary Stroutsos. Tingstad's and Rumbel's "The Gift" is now a holiday classic. Magical Strings: The annual Celtic yuletide concert is ... The Rams of Southeast Portland trailed 21-15 at halftime after being held to four points in the second quarter. Kate Lanz ... Sunset 71, David Douglas 49: Garrett Sim scored 29 points in the visiting Apollos' win. McMinnville 55, Gresham 53: Kyle Long ... ... change and it’s impact on the next generation, moderated by Kolbert, county executive Ron Sims, and UW atmospheric sciences professor David Battisti. Many FIG classes attended the event as an academic excursion, part of the FIG class work. Lanz ... Wickstrom, David; Wong, Kailen; Zuschlag, Abigail. Teacher: Mrs. Sparling Beitz, Claiborne; Busch, Hannah; Camacho, Catie ... Lanz, Jeremy; Mack, Annie; Mains, Olivia; Phillipson, Hannah; Sasaki, Mariah; Stedman, Jesse; Welch, Justin; Williamson ... Coming up • David Lanz with Tingstad & Rumbel - "Home for the Holidays": 7:30 p.m. Dec. 22, The Washington Center for the Performing Arts, 512 Washington St. S.E., Olympia. $28-$36 for adults, $26-$35 for students and seniors. Call 360-753-8586 or ... Karen Lanz adopted Marlee more than a year ago. She said Marlee’s leg had been badly injured, probably in a car accident ... David Cordick, 35, of Watkins Glen, N.Y., served in Iraq with 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. He was shot by a sniper ... Brian Culbertson, who headlines the "Soulful Christmas" concert (Paramount Theatre, Dec. 20); and Seattle-based New Age keyboardist David Lanz with his annual Benaroya Hall Christmas concert (Dec. 21). — Patrick MacDonald, Seattle Times music critic
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