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: EP Collection
Cornelius's latest EP, "Gum," however, not only embraces his electronica reputation, it is a cohesive collection despite the breadth of collaborators. Prefuse 73 gives a watercolor foundation to the jerky title track, while the Books add fleeting ... The familiar surrounds tour celebrates the NZ release of Cassette's 'Cancer EP.' A collection of classic bare, powerful country rock which features songs ' Look at you ' (currently in the Bfm top ten) and 'Cancer' (currently no.1 on the Kiwi fm top ... ... countryish collection recorded in Nashville, and "Gold," recorded in Los Angeles, which showed his hard-rock side. Subsequent releases were uneven, but the sober Adams has come back to top quality with his latest album, "Easy Tiger," and EP "Follow ... Los Angeles-based band Phantom Planet has joined the Fueled By Ramen family for their fourth full-length collection. Produced by ... A 4 song digital EP -- previously only available as a physical CD on their recent tour with Maroon 5 and, later, the ... I had a huge record collection in the early 80's, and I made several hundred transfers to cassette tape for friends, etc. And I ... more direct access than ever to artists, including the ability to say, your stuff's great, here's $5 or $10 for the EP I ... Having preceded their debut album with a lukewarmly-received EP and a less-than-universally-acclaimed single in the shape ... Admittedly this has now cost us our entire collection of ELO records and Thundercats figures – who knew such things were so ... ... just one new song to the "best of" collection, as many bands do, the members of Matchbox 20 decided to record several new tracks. The band thinks of the new CD, "Exile in Mainstream," as a hybrid between a greatest-hits album and an original EP ... JF: David had a good record collection, so I was listening to the Stooges, Captain Beefheart, MC5, the Velvet Underground, a lot ... By 1981's Loud LP and 1982's monster-themed Horrible EP, they had channeled their noise into an atonal, primal smack of ... Paul's House of Mercy Band has just issued yet another lovingly crafted collection of gospel/bluegrass/country dubbed "Left Behind ... Singer/songwriter Benjamin Tucker has a pair of solid folk discs out, the full-length "Wenonah" and EP "Different State of ... The band's new If Looks Could Kill EP offers up more high-romantic pastoral. Camera Obscura performs on Friday, Feb. 16 ... Friday's show will encompass a collection of those stated genres while Saturday's gig centers on manipulated sounds of 78s with ...
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