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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Enslaved
The influence of Indian music in Norway is not very difficult to guess. Hindi film music is gaining popularity with the Norwegian youth; even Bollywood movies with Nordic subtitles are drawing mainstream Norwegian crowd to the theatres. The success ... Several dozen people were enslaved at Hampton when emancipation finally came to Maryland. Many stayed on as paid servants. Down the hill from the mansion’s dramatic front lawn sits a 1745 farmhouse where the Ridgelys lived while Hampton was under ... Jackson, who has enslaved her to heal her nymphomaniacal "wickedness." The irreconcilability of attitudes about race and sex and love and religion and the irrelevance of such debates in the face of soul-scorching suffering are at the heart of the ... In other words, they respect the tradition but are not enslaved by it. There is a huge verve and energy to their music, which travels down some unlikely paths. As the saxophonist Joshua Redman said: “There are a lot of young groups out there, but ... It also has overtones of the Planet of the Apes movies where apes are enslaved. I am also not surprised the gorilla in questioned looks somewhat melancholic after being compelled to perform a Phil Collins song ad infinitum. What could be more ... Freedom for all people enslaved by Imperialism,' from the Russian; and then a call went through to Sir Oliver Franks, the representative of Her Majesty's Government. 'Well, it's very kind of you to ask,' he replied. 'I'd quite like a box of ... The country is still recovering from a decade-long devastating civil war, during which women were raped, beaten and enslaved. Neighboring Liberia, also recovering from a brutal civil war, made history when it became the first African county to elect a ... As discussed in Midrash Tanchuma, an Egyptian taskmaster has raped a Hebrew woman in her home and now is torturing the life out of her enslaved husband, who has learned the secret. Moshe looks both ways -- some say that he simply is assuring that ... With this in mind, we can better understand the pain they felt by being enslaved in permanent cities since they were accustomed to the open areas that a pastoral lifestyle called for. A city dweller enslaved in a city would not feel the same pain ... War stories told by the ancient Greek playwrights are more bloody and horrific than heroic and sentimental. In Euripides’ Hecuba, the title character finds herself enslaved after the fall of Troy. Her daughter Polyxena is sacrificed and her son ...
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