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: Equality
A gay rights group has compiled a dossier criticising the record of one of the UK's newly appointed equality commissioners, Joel Edwards. The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) said Edwards has a history of "agitating against the full ... But he took on issues of poverty and militarism because he considered them vital "to make equality something real and not just racial brotherhood but equality in fact," Sitkoff said. Scholarly study of King hasn't translated into the popular ... In the struggle for opportunity and equality, we cannot walk alone." Clinton, a New York senator who would be the first woman U.S. president, spoke to a predominantly black Baptist church in New York City's Harlem and reminded the congregation King ... Martin Luther King Jr. preached on freedom and universal equality. The candidates' intense courting of African-American voters came after Clinton gained new momentum by winning in Nevada, even as Obama overwhelmed her among the state's black voters ... In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and his well-known commitment to equality, universal acceptance and pretty flowers that smell real good, the two Wesley Berry floral shops will give away 500 dozen roses. If you're keeping score at home, that's 6 ... Clinton came under fire earlier for saying King's dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She has since reiterated her admiration for King. "The 'I have a dream' speech is one ... It takes a lot of people to create the beloved community. The beloved community is what Martin Luther King Jr. called his vision of a just society. It is what he worked toward, whether he was talking about civil rights, economic equality or peace. I ... But in Pakistan, where 49 percent of the 160-million population are female, many women are entering workplaces that offer them little equality and few opportunities for advancement. In many companies, women are paid less and given support jobs. In many ... It might seem that in 2008, with an African-American man a front-runner in the presidential race and people of color holding leadership positions in organizations of every kind, our nation could observe Martin Luther King Day by folding our hands ... ... contest between the Blazers (24-16) and Atlanta (17-19) appears to be just another one of 82 games in a long NBA season, many of the Blazers said it will serve as a time to reflect and appreciate the peaceful fight waged for justice and equality by ...
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