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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Dragonforce
The day you beat DragonForce's "Through the Fire and Flames" on Expert mode is the day you should step in front of a speeding tour bus. GHIII may be the year's biggest craze, but witnessing victory over its toughest songs actually feels a bit more ... Peep the video below of a 9-year-old beating the hardest level on Guitar Hero III . He’s playing DragonForce’s “Through the Flames and Fire” on expert mode. The kid scores a freakin’ 95% and puts us all to shame For those looking to up their game or beat that tricky solo, GH3 comes with a training mode in which you can specify which part of the song you want to play, and the speed at which you want to play it (even at the slowest speed the Dragonforce song ... Biffy Clyro The Cribs The Darkness Kings of Leon MORE FOO FIGHTERS!!! ...and most importantly, any Dragonforce, I know GHIII has Through The Fire and Flames, but Rock Band needs their stuff more, because drums and vocals are fun too Red Octane. With that ... At The Disco to Trivium to DragonForce. The difference between a cool video on the Internet and MySpace is the latter allows fans to be advocates for the artist. Case in point: this week's HotStar, which has sold 60,000 records with little promotion. ... The power-metal band’s record sales have received a massive increase since the game’s release. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is the latest installment in the popular music-based series, which is perhaps best known for its unique guitar ... The entire finger shredding seven minutes of Dragonforce's Through the Fire and Flames, shown on the E For All show floor. Guitar Hero experts, its time to start sizing up your greatest foe. Coming in at over seven blistering minutes in length ... The general consensus is that Rock Band delivers on promises of being the most ambitious music game to date. Those lucky enough to have a Rock Band bundle are able to simulate the feeling of playing in a real quartet, that is, until the included ... Dragonforce's Through the Fire and Flames is a bonus song. But not until you've beaten the single-player campaign at least once. So those of you hoping to dive right into that gem (and by gem I mean insanely-hard finger torture - in a fun way), don't ... The game’s power is perhaps best displayed by Killswitch’s labelmate, DragonForce, which saw digital sales of its single “Through the Fire and Flames” increase 180 percent after the game’s release. While the game has been a nice bonus, the ...
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