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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Dusty Springfield
But the real gem of the year was "Shout!" (Harrah's), an offbeat program focusing on such 1960s female hit-makers as Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark. Two Cirque du Soleil knock-offs, "iL CiRCo" (Bally's) and "Cirque Shanghai" (Tropicana) offered ... When I told her that some of their new stuff brings to mind Dusty Springfield, in particular the essential "Dusty In Memphis" album, Potter blurted, "Our producer would love you! That's all he would talk about the whole time. That's the platform for ... Kyle Vaughan looked healthy after missing the Central game Thursday and Dusty Allen wore Aurora out with 26 points, 17 ... 2006 Springfield News-Leader. Use of this site indicates your agreement to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy , updated June ... ... soul sound back in the 1970s with their Philadelphia International label and the list of artists for whom they wrote and produced hits, which includes the O'Jays, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass, the Jacksons and Dusty Springfield ... ... Hammond-heavy homonymous Yep Roc disc (January 8); JOE JACKSON , who sticks to rocking out on Rain (Rykodisc, January 29); and heartache queen SHELBY LYNNE ’s Just A Little Lovin’ (Lost Highway, January 29), a collection of Dusty Springfield covers ... Duffy and her Dusty Springfield-esque songs are destined for massive things. Key track - Rockferry www.myspace.com/duffymyspace :: ROYWORLD It's not the best name in the world, but don't let that get in the way of this great band. Reminiscent of The ... Back To Black" is like a throwback to the sixties' sounds of Dusty Springfield and the girl groups produced by Phil Spector, only with present day lyricism. "Rehab" (something she should consider) is an obvious standout in an album of full of ... Perhaps this is an exaggeration, but I firmly believe Amy Winehouse has the potential to become the greatest white female soul singer since her fellow Briton, the legendary Dusty Springfield. Winehouse is a genuine original that has not been seen in a ... ... independently toward the North Pole, each hoping to be the first to reach it; a murderous anti-black riot racked Springfield ... Pat Garrett, the already legendary lawman, was shot down on a dusty road in New Mexico that February. Yet America 1908 ... Susan Sarandon, who plays Nick's long-suffering wife, performs her own dynamite singalong version of Dusty Springfield's "Piece of My Heart" (along with a church choir led by Eddie Izzard). Christopher Walken, as her Elvis-worshiping cousin, performs ...
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