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: Distant Rituals
They're often the only form of communication distant friends or relatives have over the entire year, and they bear the ... However, the rituals surrounding the day have been in the making for years. Making memories is an important part of holiday ... SALTA, Argentina -- My wife Norma and I got an unexpected glimpse of the distant past when we took a two-week trip recently ... and other crops with the help of irrigation systems, produced handicrafts and observed their own customs and burial rituals ... In late January and into February, eagles begin courting rituals with thrilling aerial shows over the Wisconsin River ... Their lives depend upon noticing the movement of distant, edible things. They usually fly at 30 mph, but are capable of ... ... subject, David Lee Hoffman, an erstwhile hippie-trail wanderer who became fascinated with tea's traditions, social rituals ... Amir sees their participation in the city's annual kite-flying contest as a chance to prove himself to his distant father ... Within an hour, camp will be struck: campers and crew alike will have all finished each of our morning rituals, eaten ... Way, sitting close around a fire, listening to the animal sounds in the night; seeing the natural world much as our distant ... ... house is an all-in-one experience in which the architecture, art and landscape convey what life was like in the distant past ... The holiday season brings the rituals of gift-giving, and books make perfect, relatively inexpensive presents. Choose one ... Herd-like adolescent malice rituals directed towards the Hated Loser ( NYT reporters grouping together to chortle and cackle oh ... But here's the fun part--no one will see it coming. . . . If Huckabee declines to a distant second or perhaps even third ... ... 500 years, the Shiah have commemorated Husayn's martyrdom at Karbala by performing a series of elaborate mourning rituals ... of Karbala, saturated in the blood of the martyrs, begin to merge their chants against the evil tyrant Yazid with the distant ... The shaman she becomes is hokey but real—some backwater guy with rituals involving a Fanta bottle full of tap water, only ... Touched up with the strangely soothing, even nostalgic sound of distant helicopters, the soundtrack to many years of news ... Other parents run in from distant parking lots around Everett Community College, lugging heavy car seats to be picked up by ... in the lobby of the Everett Community College Early Learning Center, there is a warm greeting from staff and morning rituals ...
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