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: Dierks Bentley
PRYOR — Catch the Fever Music Festivals announces that Dierks Bentley, one of the hottest young stars in country music, will play at the Country Fever Music Festival June 12 to 15 in Pryor. With two Platinum albums — 2003’s “Dierks Bentley ... Bud Light is the beer of regular dudes like myself," Dierks Bentley said. "I drank it long before they endorsed our tour. Long before I was 21, for that matter." That makes the Bentley-Bud Light deal believable. Bentley, 31, is the "regular dude ... ... the 2007 fair: Aerosmith $750,000 plus 70 percent of gross ticket sales over $830,000 Bob Dylan $275,000 plus 85 percent of gross ticket sales over $355,000 Martina McBride $225,000 plus 70 percent of gross ticket sales over $320,000 Dierks Bentley ... The lineup for the three-day concert (May 23-25) is still being assembled, but acts already scheduled include the Del McCoury Band, Vince Gill, Dierks Bentley, Keller Williams and the Keels, Sam Bush, David Grisham Bluegrass Experience, Abigail ... DIERKS BENTLEY: With opening acts Bucky Covington and Luke Bryan, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14, O'Connell Center. Tickets: $36 at Ticketmaster and University Box Office. (800-277-1700 or 392-1653) CIRQUE EXTRAVAGANZA: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16, Phillips Center, 315 Hull ... In 2006, he was on tour with Brooks & Dunn, Sheryl Crow and Gary Allan ; this year, with Brad Paisley and Dierks Bentley ; and next year with Martina McBride and a brief run with Toby Keith . He has made a lot of new fans coast-to ... Growing up in a nonmusical family in Phoenix, AZ, country singer Dierks Bentley got his country music education on his own, listening to recordings. A love of the music inspired him to move to Nashville at the age of 19, but he quickly grew ... Presenters included Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Jason Michael Carroll, Bucky Covington, Sheryl Crow, Jewel with Ty Murray, Kid Rock, Montgomery Gentry, Blake Shelton and Gretchen Wilson. The winners of "The 41st Annual CMA Awards" are ... Dierks Bentley got four Grammy nods and I'm glad for him. And he also released a fine live album, Live & Loud at the Fillmore . The irascible Billy Joe Shaver continues his lyrical musical preaching with Everybody's Brother . I never tire of hearing him ... Dierks Bentley sang the final musical tribute after explaining the significance the new inductees had had to his career. He said he was working as a researcher for TNN, the Nashville-based cable network, when he met Emery and had his first ...
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