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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Electrelane
Electrelane, "No Shouts No Calls" Good news: "No Shouts" distilled Electrelane to its core with a set that hinged on the band's loud-soft dynamics and predilection for ominous build-ups and fevered repetition. It's easily the most cohesive and ... Good news: "No Shouts" distilled Electrelane to its core with a set that hinged on the band's loud-soft dynamics and predilection for ominous build-ups and fevered repetition. It's easily the most cohesive and dynamic album yet from this lean British ... After a run in with Scandinavian law , the subsequent cancellation of her appearance at the mtvU Woodie Awards ceremony , and finally her battle against the drug charges barring her U.S. entry, Brit songstress Amy Winehouse has finally been granted a ... It is a source of some pride that I can hear traces of the musical collaborations I made a couple of years back with Verity Susman of Electrelane (aka Vera November) within her contribution: not that I’m saying my darkened, depressed spoken word ... Presented by Nederlander Concerts and KROQ. Band: Win Butler, Will Butler, Regine Chassagne, Sarah Neufeld, Jeremy Gara, Tim Kingsbury, Richard Reed Parry, Marika Shaw, Colin Stetson, Kelly Pratt. Also appearing: Electrelane. Opened and reviewed, May ... Interval, and a little female input into proceedings: critical darlings and rightfully so, the four ladies of Electrelane prove once again why they still matter four albums down the line. Playing highlights from the likes of The Power Out and this year ... Artists: Low , Nine Inch Nails , Porcupine Tree , Electrelane , Blonde Redhead , Modest Mouse , Cornelius , Arctic Monkeys , The Pony Collaboration , Feist , Efterklang April is over. Done. Dusted. We’re a third of the way through 2007 and what ... I've missed the end of Electrelane and Battles this year so I could get the last Metro back to Sunderland. And if it wasn't for my mate driving, I'd have missed about half of M.I.A. last Tuesday. Ross Millard had to get the last Metro back though, the ... ... and putting them out front, but obviously it wasn't as easy to do the same with the bars. --- Questions answered, look out for DiS’s verdict on the line-up – which included Liars, Battles, Foals, Bat For Lashes, Archie Bronson Outfit, Electrelane ... Artists: Clinic , Sleater-Kinney , Electrelane , Spoon , The Shins , The Gossip , The New Pornographers , The Boredoms , The Decemberists , Lightning Bolt , Joanna Newsom , Dinosaur Jr , Big Business DiS had a tough choice to make back at the end of ...
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