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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E. Rhymes
Nursery rhymes -poems that teach Mother Goose, as played by Dorothy Darling Gatchell of Auburn, joined kindergartners and first-graders at Martel Elementary School earlier this month for a morning reciting nursery rhymes and acting out these favorite ... Indeed anything goes in the stylish rhymes of Carryl, a writer of children's verse a century ago who was held in high regard as ... Charles E. Carryl knew that absurd questions deserve to be answered with a "No." Xylophagans, by the way, are a kind of ... Not when you're bombarded with the same old faces (Phil Jackson's smirk and/or soul patch), story lines (the Patriots are the ultimate T-E-A-M) and carbon copy magazine covers (Boston Celtics big three! Just look at 'em!). Talk about no exit. Loathing ... Sign In to E-Mail or Save This Print ... It is performed in a very free English translation of the German by David Pountney, filled with clever rhymes and snappy ... Telegraph e-paper ... Pakistani popular rhymes defame Ahmadis in lurid terms and militants have stamped thousands of rupee notes imploring believers ... When Allen sings clichés and bad rhymes like, “she’s so cool, breaking all the rules,” it’s almost embarrassing. Even though a clever hook backs it, the song sounds hopelessly proletarian. After a decade in the business, Allen’s sound ... I certainly don't have a magic pill, although I think Annie, a reader who e-mailed me about the topic, might be on to ... OK, so maybe his rhymes aren't Grammy-worthy, but he did win a 2007 Emmy in the public-service announcement category. ... The Wu served as the bridge between the golden age of early gangsta rap (e.g., the whole NWA family tree) and the hardcore ... Dre was building in Compton, eschewing candy-coated synth hooks and beach beats for an anti-pop of tense rhymes, naked voices ... After a recap of a visit to Holy Land Experience, a woman e-mailed her objections. She didn't see that saying the actor ... For the record, my name rhymes with "devil," but that doesn't hurt his argument, does it? Looking forward What's up for '08? Too ... T-Pain We really thought that if we invited him to Las Vegas, that he's buy us a drank. Instead, he spit rhymes during Kanye ... Vinny and E aren't ... real people ... are they? No, but video camera buff Adrian Grenier and Kevin Connolly were and that ...
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