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: Encouraging Words
Despite the grim outlook, there are some encouraging words to be heard. During the past 10 recessions, the Nasdaq composite has dropped an average of 19%, according to S&P. "We are already halfway there," says Scott Kessler, an S&P analyst. Michael ... And there's Clorox and Chevron. I predict our office will have a 20 percent increase in revenue this year." Swanson's encouraging words are especially significant because the jobless rate hit 5 percent, a two-year high, in December, according to a ... Lopez, who has an endless supply of warm hugs and encouraging words, is chief operating officer of Catholic Charities. But her efforts are bolstered by an army of volunteers, many of them residents, who divide up a schedule to make the project work. ... The fact that even a few are taking her words to heart is encouraging, she said. As far as Linda Lundstrom Inc. is concerned, the company has reached its goal. More than 50 per cent of its spring 2008 collection has been made with environmentally ... Perkins said Yes It’s Bull factored into her decision to test Oaklawn, but so did encouraging words from Gary Aimonetti and James J. Smith, Woodbine-based trainers who also have wintered in Hot Springs. “They said everybody was so nice and ... This kind of alliance might do an end run around the insular Shiite Dawa party of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and around the more sectarian Sunni parties now in the parliament. In other words, security gains on the ground are encouraging new ... Experts said the sheer number of codes is encouraging many of us to take risks with them. Six in ten of those questioned use the same numbers or words for as many accounts as possible. This means that if a criminal learns the code, he or she could ... ... results of our brand building campaigns coupled with the sustained growth in traffic volumes have been extremely encouraging ... Words or expressions such as "plan," "will," "intend," "believe" or "expect'" or variations of such words and similar ... You are the answer," he said, emphasizing the importance of encouraging words and actions alike. A native of Sumter, he also encouraged his listeners to consider the importance of faith, in addition to deeds, and pointed to Jesus as the way to reach ... Let the provinces (in this case Ontario) handle economic investments, but make it consistent to all provinces. So when Alberta and the Northwest Territories come to Ottawa in the near future asking for billions for the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, the ...
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