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: Dreaming
A recent survey commissioned by Staples, the office-supply giant, indicates that 51% of small-business professionals dream about work. Of those, 70% say that when they wake up, they turn their work dreams into action. That would have been a little ... In her Woodinville bedroom, 12-year-old Samantha Pell is sleeping under her "Storm wall" and dreaming basketball dreams again. She has also returned to Starbucks, ending a one-girl boycott she started after company CEO Howard Schultz sold the Seattle ... Bond got blindsided by the turn in the market when she bought a townhouse condominium last summer, never dreaming it would take months to sell her Stoneleigh home of 41 years. She listed the Baltimore County property in July, didn't get a contract ... Altagracia Valdez is dreaming of a perfect pink Cadillac. All she has to do to win it, according to her boss at Mary Kay Inc., is expand her list of conocidos . Those familiar connections, she says, can adorn Valdez's 60-year-old hands with diamond ... Like most Ontario-born boys, Downey grew up dreaming of NHL stardom. But it was clear by the time he started playing juniors with the now-defunct Grand Valley Harvesters that he had his work cut out. And even as his junior career took him far away ... This is something I have been dreaming about for a long time and it has finally come my way," said Rogers, who scored 60 against India in the three-day tour match in Canberra. "You never want to wish an injury on anyone but there is always a chance ... One sweltering afternoon, day-dreaming in the back of a taxi amid a scraping row that sounded like the unsettling opening of Penderecki's Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, I hit upon a proposal for the city's transport authorities: would it not ... This is a fantastic opportunity to represent Australia and it something I have been dreaming about for a long time and it has finally come my way," Rogers said. "I thought I might have missed the boat but I always thought there might be an opportunity ... Mind you, it hasn’t been enacted, merely proposed, but, as George Mason economist Walter Williams noted in a recent column, California seems poised to take draconian steps in monitoring how Golden State residents heat and cool their homes. It seems ... It is easy to scoff that Chelsea and Nicolas Anelka are the perfect match – a club intent on buying success and a player who has spent his career repeatedly selling himself to the highest bidder – but there are more positive reasons for ...
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