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: Energy 2003
The risk of proliferation goes up with every country that uses nuclear energy," Gernot Erler, Germany's energy minister, said after news of the arrangement with Libya. Sarkozy has countered that the Libyan leader's decision in 2003 to halt his ... Its 2003 energy white paper made the issue one of its four principal goals. Yet in the most recent energy bill, published this month, the government made no mention of fuel poverty or how to tackle it. Energywatch wants the state to force suppliers ... ... through nuclear energy in the next two decades. Russia’s decision to begin shipping nuclear fuel to Iran followed a U.S. intelligence report released earlier this month that concluded Tehran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in late 2003 and ... Army Reserves in the Horn of Africa from 2003-04 made him "realize more than ever that partisan politics isn't what's going ... During deliberations on the recent energy bill, he was heavily involved in negotiations which led to a compromise ultimately ... Seau, who turned 39 on Saturday, and Harrison were deemed expendable when then-coach Marty Schottenheimer retooled the roster in 2003. Each has resurrected his career with a fortuitous move to New England; Seau's three-year experiment in Miami from ... ... the turbines in a different direction, an apt symbol of Japan's efforts to shift away from fossil fuels for renewable energy ... The northern Japanese town of Hokkaido, which is the first offshore wind-for-power system outside of Europe, has since 2003 ... James, the top pick in the 2003 draft, led Cleveland (21-18) to the franchise's first NBA finals appearance last season ... We have to change the energy, somehow." The Heat had a 10-point third-quarter lead over the Knicks on Saturday, only to get ... ... don't have that same fervor and that same understanding," he said. McCain opposed President Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 ... A victory would provide the winner not only with a hefty purse in the delegate race but also a huge jolt of energy in the run ... TOT), recommended for Income Investor subscribers in December 2003. At the time, the international energy giant was trading for $45 (split-adjusted). Using a discounted cash flow model, we pegged its fair value closer to $60 -- and later revised that ... Foreign entities last year captured stakes in American companies in businesses as diverse as real estate, steel-making, energy ... Democrat, who has traveled three times to Europe and twice to Japan in pursuit of investment since taking office in 2003. "I ...
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