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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Elvis Costello
The ubiquitous Elvis Costello joins Louvin for a new recording on one the Louvin Brothers’ greatest songs “When I Stop Dreaming,” prompting a quick key change to suit his voice. On Rodgers’ “Waiting for a Train,” Louvin tells the tale the ... ... jazz in the 1920s, when celebs, such as Mary Pickford, and hordes of ordinary people turned up; jitterbugging through the air raids; the era of the professional dancer for hire; the Joe Loss Orchestra featuring Ross McManus, father of Elvis Costello ... The accepted wisdom is that an artist's second album tends to be a let-down -- a rushed follow-through to the debut. There have been lots of exceptions, of course: "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," Elvis Costello's "This Year's Model," Nirvana's ... ELIZABETHTOWN — Doc Dockery has been around. Carly Simon once made a run to a fast food restaurant and bought him a cheeseburger at the same time he met Bruce Springsteen. He is a personal friend of John Prine. He has played with Elvis Costello and ... Elvis Costello, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones -- you hear shades of it all in one song from this band that manages a classic strut-worthy tune about going out on the town. Timeless! 6. Mohawk Down, by GOOD2GO From: Accessorize. Cornerstones of the ... Revived as a three-day festival in 1979, it had grown by 2007 to draw 153,000 people to hear acts including Coldplay, Brian Wilson, Kaiser Chiefs and Elvis Costello. "Her energy, vitality, and great sense of morality and social responsibility have ... ... decor, every Friday and Saturday night at Lee's finds Italian grandpas belting out Sinatra tunes, teen girls crooning Madonna songs in packs, and irony-wielding hipsters doing drunken renditions of everything from Elvis tunes to Elvis Costello ... Education: Went to four high schools; earned honorary high school diploma from Richmond Hill High School, N.Y. Family life: Husband David Thornton; son, Declyn Wallace Thornton Lauper (named after Elvis Costello, whose first name is Declan A Web site in the name of another Outhier alias -- Declan McManus, which is the real name of musician Elvis Costello -- boasted he had been wowing audiences around the world since 1994 with his magic, bending silverware with his mind like Uri Geller ... Elvis Costello made an entire album, 1998’s much-lauded “Painted From Memory,” with Bacharach, and the two are at work on a new batch of songs, likely to be recorded by Costello’s wife, jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall. Bacharach has made ...
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