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: Distorted Disco
The band abandoned the disco-punk of the debut and demos -- that sound has since become the province of mainstream emo ... Songs like "Teardrops" borrow from West African rhythms, but they are twisted, processed and distorted. Afro-beat is a clear ... ... and Lithium, Moz proclaims, “Don’t give me any more...” , succinctly reflecting the darker lyrical prose and distorted ... Shortly after the “very nice, very nice, very nice” sobering beauty of ‘Death Of A Disco Dancer’ climaxes like a ... Distorted Disco (disco). Shaker Room: 7259 E. Stetson Dr., Scottsdale, 480-970-0500. Thursdays: Dirty with DJ Mr. B (hip-hop). Fridays: F.U.B.A.R. with DJ Randy (house, hip-hop). Saturdays: Shaky with DJ ... I t’s the journalistic equivalent of a bad dream: Spend a couple months working on a big story, only to have the story explode once you’ve gone to press. A week after Boston magazine’s lengthy look at Glenn Marshall and the ascendant Mashpee ... A pair of Vocoder-distorted voices bounces the words "robot" and "human" off each other until they create a Pong-like pulse. A ... A veritable greatest-hits parade through Daft Punk's numerous disco-house anthems, the album mixes and matches the duo's ... Senator Ted Kennedy and Gov. Mitt Romney are among those expected to share their memories of the late great Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics tomorrow at a noontime tribute to Auerbach held in Boston City Hall Plaza and hosted by the Celtics. Also ... The American Association of University Professors last week issued “Freedom in the Classroom,” a report evidently intended as a landmark answer to an increasingly common class of criticisms about the behavior of college professors. The report ... Meanwhile, younger acts such as Justice, Digitalism, Simian Mobile Disco, the Mercury Prize-winning Klaxons, and LCD ... singing and are structured like traditional pop songs, never lingering for too long on one or another of their distorted ... The keyboardist thickened the mix with distorted, synthesized noises. But Matisyahu's rapping grounded it all. Having just ... At the Disco lacked energy and, for reasons unknown, performed a cover version of "The Weight," one of the most overrated ... Their blissful drone-scapes are punctured by alarming levels of static and fuzz, with garbled and distorted vocals drizzled ... to the Medicine Bar stage around the 1am mark; immediately before them, Kling Klang mix Krautrock sensibilities with disco ...
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