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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Devin The Dude
... single “5000 Ones,” the seven participants shine (particularly Nelly, T.I., and Young Jeezy), and “Cannon RMX” shows why Drama and Weezy, a former collaborator turned adversary, are much better off being friends. Devin the (underrated) Dude ... Devin Harris : Now THIS is the type of young point guard you get for Villanueva. Unbelievable. Maybe the worst one-for-one NBA ... Ten years later, he's known to an entire generation of fans under 25 as "the dude from 'Blue Chips.' " Kinda weird how that ... The Cavs appeared on the verge of getting blown out but Varejao's tip in, followed by Devin Brown's layup and two James free ... Kobe's the type of dude where every shot he takes, it has a chance to go in. When he took that shot, I know everyone held ... Of course Mike Tirico mentions Devin Hester's Super Bowl return, but neither Hester nor Adam Vinatieri is involved in this ... My guy the non-pizza dude is all over the place. Gould nails the 32 or 33-yarder (not sure which, it varies between 17 and 18 ... I'm not sure if the Warriors would have prevailed had Salvatore and his hothead partner — the dude with the slicked back ... strategy would have made more sense in the Dallas series whence B-Diddy was guarded by wussies like Jason Terry and Devin ... Representatives Devin Nunes (R-CA), Mark Green (R-WI), and Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), where the Joint International Communiqué ... First Hand Dude Music, Dude Records has announced the re-issueance and reserving of Back In The Mainstream, The Northern ... He's also profanity-free (even the curse words of his guests -- Slick Rick, Devin the Dude and Lil Wayne among them -- are muted). Such higher roads, however, don't always offer better alternatives; in "Industry Groupie," a perfectly good Europe ... Three blowouts last night led to some erratic fantasy production, to say the least. There are a lot of bad fantasy teams out there this year. Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia and Portland all spring to mind. These are reality-based, offensively ... Mrs. Olive Caskey Frazer, 81, of Shreveport, LA, died Tuesday, December 21, at her residence . A a native of Ashley County, a resident of Shreveport for the past 22 years and a former resident of the Boydell area, she was a retired nurse and a member ... Devin Hester had another team on the run with the Redskins doing all they could to keep the ball away from him at the start ... I beat the dude with an inside move, and then [the fan] bumped me. I was like, 'What the heck?' I was checking myself to see ...
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