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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Album: Enchanted
There's no false modesty from Leslie Lewart when it comes to her dream home. "It's enchanted!" she exclaimed, standing on the rear balcony of her restored mill cottage in Oella. Oella was founded in 1808 in Baltimore County, across the Patapsco River ... There's the line-up of possible 2007 Oscar contenders just into cinemas, such as Atonement , I'm Not There , No Country for Old Men and Enchanted , all screening now, and Lust, Caution (Ang Lee's Chinese-language drama with the year's most graphic sex ... It's been years since an American studio turned out a musical as original as Enchanted , which mixes live action and animation in a family-friendly story that should bring a smile to even the most cynical movie-goer. In the calendar year, 234 films ... So there I was muttering, "Fraud, fraud," while watching Enchanted April . It's a charming movie that sets very few viewers to grumbling. Oppressed women leave cold, rainy 1920s England and proceed to find happiness, peace, and sunshine in a rented ... eam Disney makes good fun of itself with "Enchanted." But not so much to subvert the viability of the conglomerate's princess cash cow. A combination of traditional animation and live action, "Enchanted" works a killer fish-out-of-water concept. What ... Best popcorn movies: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "Enchanted," "Fracture," "Michael Clayton," "Hairspray," "Hot Fuzz," "Spider-Man 3." Most unnecessary sequel: Just who, exactly, was clamoring for "Daddy Day Camp"? Nobody, apparently. It earned an anemic $13 ... The Blue Monkey Theater Company presents Rodgers and Hammerstein's enchanted holiday classic starring Miss Oregon Kari Virding. 7 p.m. Fri-Sat, 2 p.m. Sun through Dec. 30; check Web site for holiday matinees. West End Theater, 1220 S.W. Taylor St ... Perhaps you've seen "Enchanted," the popular Walt Disney movie that mocks Disney's own fairy tales. Much of that film borrows from "Sleeping Beauty" , the animated classic about a woman named Aurora, who searches for a prince and is cursed along the ... It now shows mostly G and PG-rated movies like Fred Claus and Enchanted. Miller, describing himself as a devout Catholic, says his religious beliefs wouldn’t jibe with showing movies full of sex and violence. The city grant, initiated by Councilman ... And “Enchanted,” to most critics, lived up to its name. Well, It IS a Minority Taste: Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino were nostalgic for the sticky-floored Z-movie “Grindhouse” theaters of yore. So were some of us critics. Audiences ...
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