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: England
BOSTON — The baseball team won the World Series. The football team is two victories from a perfect Super Bowl ring. The basketball team's record is, by far, the fairest of them all. This keeps up, and they're going to have more parades around here ... Reminders of the prehistoric past keep surfacing in a rich dinosaur graveyard in southern England. What a girl named Mary Anning found there in the 1800s began to dismantle the Bible's account of creation -- and anticipated the theory of evolution ... It's interesting to look at when we were 1-2 and the sky was falling, that two of those losses [to Green Bay and New England] were to two of the teams that are getting ready to play this weekend," said Turner. "And they're pretty good." As is his team ... He was signed by the New England Patriots in 2004 but was released before the start of the season. Douglas Berman, a federal sentencing expert and professor at the Ohio State University Law School, said Stubblefield would probably face six months in ... Offer a grim view of Saturday night's UFC 80 pay-per-view from Newcastle, England, and White is sure to correct you. While the card may be devoid of some of the promotion's bigger names, White insists the show will be action-packed from the start to ... Anthony Wall of England shared the best round with a 65 and moved into second. Henrik Stenson, the runner-up last year, had a 69. Fourth-place Lee Westwood also shot 65 and trails the leader by eight strokes. Kaymer opened with birdies on his first ... DAME HELEN - Morley Safer profiles the British actress Helen Mirren , who is noted for her playing strong female characters, most recently, the Queen of England. Ruth Streeter is the producer. Sunday, July 29, 2007 UNDER THE INFLUENCE - Steve Kroft ... The fleet of 12 eye-catching rickshaws — which featured designs including cow prints, British flags and strawberries — were introduced in the southern England coastal resort of Brighton in 2006. Dominic Ponniah, of TucTuc Ltd., said the vehicles ... England's Anthony Wall shared the best round with a 7-under 65 and moved to second place with a total of 205. Fourth-place Lee Westwood, an 18-time winner on the European Tour, also shot 65 for an overall 207, behind Sweden's Henrik ... Former England manager Steve McClaren believes that David Beckham will win his 100th England cap but that his international career will suffer from playing his domestic football in Major League Soccer. Beckham, who currently has 99 England caps ...
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