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: Envy
I don't have CEO envy," he said. "I like the kind of role that I play in the business. The key thing is Steve's a tremendous leader of our company and he's made it clear that he wants to be CEO here for many, many years — maybe 10 years or more ... Its actions are confused, contradictory, and muddled." Ann Keen, a health minister, said: "The NHS is the envy of the world as well as the cornerstone of our public services, and this diamond jubilee year offers us an exceptional opportunity to ... ... the club are in safe hands and rude health, with their pre-tax profits of £59.6 million for the past financial year the kind of figures that will lessen some of Arsenal’s smugness while turning their rivals at Chelsea and Liverpool green with envy ... And so was created the offense that carried the 49ers to three Super Bowl titles under Walsh (and two more under his successor, George Seifert), becoming the envy of the league and perhaps its most copied bit of strategy. But to the public, Walsh ... I met the well-connected, the powerful, and the rich; it was tremendously entertaining although I saw little to envy or, indeed, much to admire." Another problem he faced was continual questioning over whether he or Tenzing had first taken the final ... Get the latest news from Washington, D.C. It was hard for me to feel anything except envy last week when I talked with Janet Hill. While I was scrounging around for mittens, scarves and stocking caps, Hill was packing swim suits and dive gear for her ... Our educational system and quality of life are the envy of other states. And we have completed 5 consecutive years of economic growth. But we still have economic challenges. We have been affected by the cooling national housing market and too many ... I don't envy him as his HR pool is a mere puddle. I note the report does not appear to suggest there are issues with the capacity of the administration at AECL. BTW.. the head of the AECL does not need the confidence of Parliament. Spend five minutes ... Thank God Minnesota citizens have voting integrity that is envy many other states. When voting integrity is lost our most precious freedom to vote will be lost also, Democrats and Republicans, Good job defending the integrity of the vote in Minnesota ... This week I saw a young Lionel Barrymore as a senator who accepted a bribe and then, when sufficiently ashamed of himself, delivered a speech in the Senate chamber that was so superior to anything I've seen, that I envy the moviegoers in 1932 who ...
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