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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Doom
Seattle quarterback Matt Hasselbeck goes down hard on this sack by John Abraham as linemen Chris Spencer (65), Sean Locklear (75), Floyd Womack (77) and Rob Sims (67) can only watch. ROD MAR / THE SEATTLE TIMES Seneca Wallace's job as the backup ... Amid all the gloom and doom, I see at least one encouraging thing: some financial firms are being forced to raise new capital on terms that dilute the stakes of existing shareholders by selling new stock at below-market prices. But if I ran the world ... The film casts a mighty spell of doom. Sondheim's music, superbly orchestrated and played, sounds marvelous as lush Bernard Herrmann-inspired underscoring (the little-known "Hangover Square" score was an early inspiration, Sondheim claims) as well as ... The goal is beating expectations -- and every four years the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire elevate or doom candidates who confound predictions and pull a surprise. "It's not like a football game where you look at the ... When he's under center, there isn't the sense of impending doom the way there has been with Rex Grossman. He looked to be more than the dreaded manager/quarterback Sunday. But is he a starting quarterback? Do the Bears even have one among Orton ... ... over documents by Britain's Serious Fraud Office which is probing possible breaches of the United Nations' oil-for-food sanctions against the former regime. In reaction, GlaxoSmithKline shed 2 at 1,279 and AstraZeneca lost 11 at 2,164. Not all was doom ... Expediency will prevail - driven by financially illiterate politicians and doom-mongering City/Wall Street economists. And despite the European Central Bank so far holding firm, eurozone rates will drop too. But, as we've seen in recent ... The newspapers have been covered in doom and gloom headlines and warnings of a financial Armageddon. Perhaps we will learn our own lessons, rein in our spending and go back to old-fashioned values of not being in debt. Fat chance! If the pictures of ... It would also be wrong to assume that LSB’s difficulties are all sub-prime related and that the bank’s warning is necessarily a harbinger of doom for Britain’s sub-prime market. LSB’s consumer credit division has been undergoing a ... Game Group emerged yesterday as the first big winner on the high street this Christmas after cashing in on the rush for the year’s must-have gift, the Nintendo Wii console. Game defied the doom and gloom engulfing the retail sector and said it ...
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