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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EPMD
Tonight, hundreds of Northern Liberties hipsters are dancing hard to EPMD, alongside folks from Mount Airy, North Philly, even Rittenhouse Square. "I love coming out and sweating it out on the dance floor," said Dan Najjar, 23, of Center City. "There ... For two decades DJ Scratch has been your favorite DJ’s favorite DJ. He’s a true DJ, who does it all. Scratching, tricks’, rocking a party, is all second nature to the hip-hop icon who is known to most hip-hop heads as the third member of EPMD ... Under Simmons' guidance, Def Jam released records from iconic acts like Public Enemy, EPMD and the Beastie Boys. Uncle Russell made strides in the R&B world, too, personally signing crooner Case. After his departure from the label, his protégés ... This is no Eric B. and Rakim or EPMD: We're talking about Port Arthur, Texas' UGK. Bun B and his brother-from-another-mother, Pimp C., haven't spoken face-to-face for months, they won't see each other for at least another few weeks — maybe longer ... He says his first single, "Candy Tricycles," will sound familiar to EPMD fans. Meanwhile, Paul talked up his trip last spring to Sierra Leone, where he got to see life in the diamond mines firsthand. Without his trademark grill, rings and jewelry ... My brother listened to just rap — Too Short and EPMD and that stuff — and I could impress him by finding where the samples from that stuff came from — Gap Band and stuff like that." While she was ... Performances by Snoop Dogg, EPMD, De la Soul, Dead Prez, Kid Capri and others will also honor the late Jam Master Jay, who was shot to death in 2005. Mike "Mr. Kaves" McLeer of Lordz of Brooklyn talks about hip-hop in the era of Run-D.M.C., while ... After Dead Prez presented the Justice Award to Chuck D, who couldn’t make it to the show, EPMD took the stage to perform classics including “You Gots to Chill,” “So Wat Cha Sayin” and “Headbanger.” LL Cool J joined them for a verse ... I mean, EPMD, you gotta honor Slick Rick, G. Rap... there's so many pioneers that paved the way for groups before us and after us. But I would like to have Smif-N-Wessun honor EPMD! That would be crazy! SoundSlam : That's what's up! Now if you were ... For 12 years Alvin Toney provided security for EPMD and was the Executive Producer of Craig Mack’s album featuring the hit single “Flava In Ya Ear”. Rosco joined forces with Wide World The Label’s own super producer Martel “Telly” Perrin ...
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