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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Dream Theater
What happens to that American dream is woven with gossipy theater insights and intimations of political manipulation - a Chinese box of deceptive amusements and crushing beauty. YELLOW FACE . By David Henry Hwang, directed by Leigh Silverman. Public ... On the most basic level, it’s just a woman waiting for a phone call,” says Yara, an up-and-coming AUC theater graduate, who plays the lead in Dream Water. “It’s a piece that both men and women can relate to, whether on one level you’ve been ... When the city learned he was looking for a place to build a theater, officials courted him. Some scoffed, but a 2005 feasibility study determined this was far from a pipe dream. Economics Research Associates — which has worked for the likes of Six ... In our upcoming stories, we'll answer these questions in detail and--sorry to shatter the dream with a dose of the real world--evaluate the drawbacks. Here's a sneak peek: Florida (Miami Beach) We sent Robert Cross to pricey South Beach, where even some ... BRISTOL, England : Terrence Cosgrove, a professor in this town in western England, imagined a world where chewing gum did not stick to sidewalks and shoes, theater seats or hair. Because Cosgrove studies polymers - the chemical compounds that, among ... A Dream-Like Fantasy' Much like a writer and director of a movie, a choreographer crafts the ideas and storylines of a dance. ... Lula Washington — founder of the Lula Washington Dance Theater in Los Angeles — singles out Christopher Huggins, an Ailey ... Riverside man's dream is as big as his quarry ... Perez's pursuit of Bigfoot began at age 10 after he watched "The Legend of Boggy Creek" at a Norwalk theater. The documentary ... When the city learned that he was looking for a place to build a theater, officials courted him heavily. Some scoffed, but a 2005 feasibility study determined that this was far from a pipe dream. At a November 2005 groundbreaking, 10,000 people cheered ... Baryshnikov said it had long been a dream for him and Elizabeth LeCompte, the Wooster Group’s artistic director, “to co-present the best original and avant-garde theater from all over the world.” The international theater festival circuit is a ... Buffalo lawmakers voted Wednesday to transfer ownership of Memorial Auditorium to a state entity for a dollar and a dream. ... Marine veteran fights for benefits for her disabled comrades Movie theater fight ends in teen's shooting Charity Vogel: Silent ...
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