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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Earth Crisis
Worries about the impact of the credit crisis on oil demand growth in top consumer the United States then dragged prices down from record peaks. Turkey's raid on Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq sent oil to one-month highs on Wednesday. ... And I think, god willing, we will come out of this crisis too with flying colours. This will only improve the Pakistanis' resolve to fight extremism and terrorism,' he said. Asked if the election process would continue, Durrani said: 'To the best of ... Belgium's king, Albert II, urged reconciliation between French-and Dutch-speakers after a six-month political crisis that led to fears the country could split up. Austrian President Heinz Fischer expressed concern about the division of wealth in ... RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - Violence has been raging in Pakistan following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. Gunman have shot police officers in Karachi, while another man has died in a shootout between police and protesters ... Islamabad, Dec 27 (Xinhua) Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf Thursday appealed to the nation to remain peaceful in the hour of crisis 'so that the evil designs of terrorists can be defeated,' state TV said. Musharraf convened an emergency meeting ... ... is not one the markets would have chosen for themselves, but was rather imposed on them by a midsummer global credit crisis ... to determine the worth of securities rooted in the U.S. mortgage market and the financial sector quickly fell to earth as ... "It will be a couple of quarters before the current credit crisis is fully digested by the markets," the analyst, William Tanona, wrote on Thursday. The analyst issued his forecast after banks said they would write off more than $70 billion because ... Standing among piles of sand, earth and rock in her front garden, the smell of fresh-cut wood still permeating the air as her new home nears completion, Leelawathi, 69, gestures to a nearby rail track, torn up as the tsunami swept away a passing ... Goldman said it will be a couple of quarters before the current credit crisis is fully digested by markets. Goldman also said Citigroup may cut its dividend 40 percent as part of its efforts to preserve capital. "I would think Goldman is right. I ... However, in the second half of the year, the credit market was in crisis and M&A activities were stagnant. The total number of global M&As this year is level with that of last year. Affected by the US sub-prime loan crisis, global liquidity shrank ...
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