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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Donny Osmond
Donny Osmond is not slowing down. At all. The former teen idol turns 50 today, and is trying to show that he's anything but a has-been. He just finished a European tour and has since been reporting for "Entertainment Tonight" on his sister Marie's ... George Osmond, 90, was the patriarch of the singing Osmond Brothers, and the father of Donny and Marie. SPIRITS OF AN AGE The zeitgeist of a decade crystallized around several who died this year. In the space age, Walter M. Schirra Jr., 84, was one of ... After all, you don’t want Donny Osmond singing “The Gates of Eden.” Filmmaker Todd Haynes must share that assessment of Dylan or he wouldn’t have invested so much research and moviemaking bravura in “I’m Not There.” It’s an audacious ... ... Naomi Tickle, a "personologist", to help assemble composite pictures of the UK's friendliest male and female faces, the implication being that this is what friendly Yorkshire folk look like. This was, alas, a step too far. Imagine Donny Osmond as a ... Osmonds take over the world: While technically more about dancing and TV than music, Marie and Donny Osmond saw a resurgence in popularity due to Marie's ascent to the 0finals of the popular TV show "Dancing With the Stars." Donny got a gig at ... Once, it was Sinatra, Elvis, the Beatles, Donny Osmond or Michael Jackson. Now it’s a 14-year-old girl with hair rivaling Farrah’s and a television show on Disney that has young girls singing into hairbrushes in the privacy of their bedrooms, or ... You mean like Donny Osmond? Korver's father is a minister, so getting used to Sloan's brand of preaching may take awhile. Listed No. 10 among his favorite songs is Bruce Springsteen" Streets of Philadelphia," which we'll assume has changed to the Beach ... The father of Donny and Marie Osmond and patriarch to the family's singing group, The Osmond Brothers, has died. George Osmond was 90. A family spokesman says Osmond died at his home in Provo, Utah. Because he had not been ill, he likely died from ... ... they--AGAIN--announced first thing on Tuesday night's show that Marie Osmond was "safe", I turned the tv off. I knew then that the show is rigged. Face it: Marie is not nearly as good as the ones before her who have been voted off the show. Donny ... MARIE OSMOND scored her first nines on Monday's "Dancing with the Stars" competition, and ET reveals the secret weapon behind her success -- no, it's not brother DONNY ! Marie's 24-year old son, STEVEN , is in the ballroom every week to support his ...
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