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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Dwele
R&B singer Dwele, who was featured this year on Kanye West's Flashing Lights, is busy prepping his third studio album. The album, which he hopes to release on Koch, is the follow-up to 2005's Some Kinda... According to Billboard, Dwele describes the ... I Iove the single with Dwele, The People . So much truth there. You'll be performing in Houston with Erykah Badu. Was she an influence? I used to sing along to Erykah Badu on my way to school, in class, at home — all the time. Her artistry ... After you've heard the introspective "Staring Through My Rearview," featuring Dwele, you will, without a doubt, kick back and analyze your life as well as the world we live in. The "Pain" remix with Styles P is also another standout track on the album Eric has written songs for Jill Scott, Vivian Green, Carl Thomas, and Detroit’s own Dwele. Zzaje is a 9-piece funk-jazz band that hails from Chicago. Also on the bill are, Fluent, DJ Houseshoes, and others. 2004-11-17 Creative Woodwork ... Cats currently getting spins in his CD deck include Detroit soul singer Dwele, organist Jimmy Smith, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Bob Marley and the Wailers. And he’s excited by the way the music industry has changed over the years. “It’s way ... Yesterday he topped the Grammy nominations with a whopping eight nods, and also this week Kanye West enters the local Top 20 with “Flashing Lights,” his collaboration with Dwele. Also, we love how many of you have that Christmas spirit — not ... Dwele -- Best Urban/ Alternative Performance, "That's the Way of the World" (from the Earth, Wind and Fire tribute album "Interpretations"); Best Album of the Year, Kanye West's "Graduation" (co-writer) Aretha Franklin -- Best Gospel Performance ... Progressive soul artist Dwele, long a favorite of the Detroit underground, earned his first-ever nod, nominated in the urban-alternative category for his single "That's the Way of the World." He's also among several Kanye West collaborators sharing ... Baby Bash's "Cyclone" featuring T-Pain slipped one to No. 10. Kanye West had the top debut with "Flashing Lights" featuring Dwele at No. 75. Also new were holiday-themed tracks from Caillat ("Mistletoe" at No. 86) and Brown ("This Christmas" at No. 89 ... A remix of "Apologize," which previously appeared on April's Timbaland Presents Shock Value, is tacked onto the end of the rock band's Dreaming Out Loud. And last but not least, Cormega called on a few buddies — Dwele and Keek Da Sneak among them — to ...
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