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: Epic: The Poetry of War
The latest: staging "Henry V," with its vast battles and its epic sweep from ... that she wants her "Henry V" to encompass both the glory and the horror of war ... actors, in turn, give evocative voice to the vivid scene-painting and driven poetry ... ... face on the cultures that are currently being disrupted by war ... The Kite Runner has moments that are emotionally rousing and filled with poetry ... class that studied the Beowulf legend and was therefore annoyed that the epic ... Moreover, it's a lavishly produced three-hour-plus epic about Bolshevik cheerleader ... being willing to go to prison for her birth control agitation when her anti-war ... were in business to remake their world, not just its politics.They wrote poetry and ... ... include coverage of John Kerry's activity as a leader of the anti-Vietnam War ... LifeStyle Express section with people in the news, quotes, and 'slammin poetry'; and ... Chooses Epic Adventures LLC as its Exclusive North American Distributor Norton ... The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson—History can ... And if there’s something we can all agree on it’s that epic ass-shaking boogie ... The last line of its last song is even borrowed from the exile poetry of Ovid, 2000 ... War, crime, royalty, fairy tales and a guy named Borat: Eight writers celebrate ... Images, words, symbols, stories, propaganda ... Clint Eastwood 's two-part epic ... s gorgeous (and gory) fairy tale for grown-ups makes compelling visual poetry of a ... ... five silent films (including two versions of director John Ford's first epic " The ... Joseph Cotten as a cynical American pulp novelist in the rubble of post-World War ... Poetry meets propaganda in " I Am Cuba: The Ultimate Edition ," Mikhail Kalatozov's ... ... and Meryl Streep in “Lions for Lambs,” an ideological saga set against the war ... theme resonated with Coppola, who spent much of the last decade developing an epic ... distance here between character and performer, and that allows for the poetry and ... ... joke in the play and the movie. In Harm’s Way (1965) his vastly underrated war ... Tolson’s poetry, since I’m a published poet myself, but I had no idea he had ... misguided adolescent error of judgment with tragic consequences into an ironic epic ... It was his mother who encouraged Cohen as a writer, especially of poetry, during his ... around biblical imagery about Vietnam (which is also relevant to the Iraq War ... uncertain of where they stood in relation to his music who could get past the epic ...
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