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: Delta Blues
While her band — an indie supergroup of sorts called The Dirty Delta Blues — dispensed a funereal ghost of a rhythm Power bowed ostentatiously, put down her tea and paced relentlessly about the stage as a brace of white carnations flew past. Like ... ... of a walking tour of downtown Clarksdale. A second dedication will honor blues pioneer Son House of Lyon, who was a mentor for many musicians including Muddy Waters. The dedication is scheduled for April 18 on the sidewalk outside Cat Head Delta Blues ... ... travels the expansive landscape of the music, tracing its roots from the beginning of the twentieth century through the Mississippi Delta to Louisiana, Texas, Kansas City and Chicago. The film includes memorable footage of some of the blues' greatest ... Jukebox" features Power's bluesy, soulful sound with The Dirty Delta Blues Band backing her as on 2006's breakthrough album, "The Greatest." Power's lived-in voice is fantastic as she puts a new, otherworldly spin on Frank Sinatra's version of "New ... Her backing band Dirty Delta Blues (among others, drummer Jim White of the Dirty Three and guitarist Judah Bauer of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) help Marshall reshape the songs with minimal fuss. As familiar as many of them are, the end result is ... ... people Friday night and 400 Saturday. Veteran locals like Schaber, Ricky Nye and the Red Hots, and Sonny Hill and the Nightshift highlighted Saturday’s lineup, putting forth their respective brands of Delta, boogie-woogie, and postwar electric blues The film is set in winter in the Mississippi Delta (where, apparently, not much has changed since Robert Johnson moaned the blues there). This is a desolate environment of treeless fields and shabby prefab homes with broken cars in the yard. The story ... GERAD BURKE, Delta blues; 7:30-10 p.m. Soul Full Cup Coffeehouse, 81 W. Market St., Corning. 936-9030. GROOVE SYNDICATE, blues rock; 9:30 p.m. The Rail House, 366 Broad St., Waverly. No cover. 565-8830. HAROLD BENJAMIN & THE COUNTRY BOYS, 8 p.m. Elmira ... Maura Kennedy, a New York native, sang with the alternative-country Delta Rays in Austin. She also has won a New York Country ... Their music ranges from old folk and blues numbers to pop. Tickets are $13. To make a reservation, call 352-357-9595 or e-mail ... Those Delta Rhythm Kings, a Lansing outfit specializing in jump blues and traditional swing; and Sexual Pantalones, who describe themselves as progressive in the mold of British legends King Crimson. Event organizers are also working on adding one or ...
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