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: Dusty in Memphis
Dusty Springfield, the finest white soul singer of her time, has recently popped up as a muse for a handful of young singers. For her album "The Greatest," Cat Power drew inspiration from Springfield's 1969 release, "Dusty in Memphis"; Amy Winehouse ... Four cuts that appear here come from the Dusty in Memphis period, as well as the title track to The Look of Love and some of her mid-'60s hits from Great Britain that were not originally released in America, like the single version of the Rascals ... Some bookstores are crammed with serpentine rows of dusty shelves aching with books - but that's not what you'll find at ... The store is on Interstate 55 between Memphis (an hour away) and St. Louis, so "we get a lot of customers traveling from the ... Shelby Lynne’s latest disc is too stripped down. “Just a Little Lovin’” pays tribute to Dusty Springfield by ... Lynne’s Southern drawl is perfectly suited to the Memphis funk of “Breakfast In Bed,” and Dean Parks’ guitar is more ... In 2004, Lisa Krouze noticed Katy's dusty cello in the corner and suggested the three get together. She is therefore the ... She began piano lessons at the age of six and later took classes with Miss Elizabeth Kelly of Memphis. Miss Kelly raised ... Four newcomers from a year ago add a lot of depth to the linebacker corps, including Kiamni Washington, Dusty Rust ... He recently was offered by Illinois and Memphis, so it might be a while before he makes up his mind. January is when ... Some bookstores are crammed with serpentine rows of dusty shelves aching with books -- but that's not what you'll find at ... The store is located on Interstate 55 between Memphis (an hour away) and St. Louis, so "we get a lot of customers traveling ... That's what preaching and worship are all about," said Davis, professor of preaching and worship and Hebrew Bible at Memphis ... They must offer hope with the word that can make a dusty place wet, she said. The best way to prepare a way for God in the ... A few thoughts while waiting for the expected announcement from the Braves that Mark Kotsay has passed his physical and the center field gap has been stopped. Assuming the veteran outfielder’s surgically repaired back passed muster with Braves ... Former Gophers forward Dusty Rychart is still one of the top players on the Brisbane Bullets of the Australian Basketball ... for-10 from the floor and committed 10 turnovers in 25 minutes off the bench for Pepperdine in its 90-53 loss at No. 2 Memphis ...
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