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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Eric B. and Rakim
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 ... On one occasion, Chang recalls that Shadow brought him a Maxell cassette with a remix of Eric B & Rakim's "I Know You Got Soul." Chang played it on the air, and "after a minute or two, I started screaming, 'This is incredible ... Some people have listened to [the album] and told us that it sounds like Eric B. & Rakim - and here we were thinking we were so psychedelic," says Sarzana, laughing over the phone from Brooklyn, where he moved two years ago after spending his first ... ... point—maybe the addition of a third day plus a big win by the Saints this afternoon wiped out the intensity of hardcore festival-goers—but the people that stayed were treated to an upbeat set by Common , who worked in bits of Eric B. and Rakim ... Rakim is perhaps the most influential hip-hop MC of all time, thanks to his collaboration with DJ Eric B. on the seminal 1987 album "Paid In Full. Yet Rakim's solo career has been a sporadic thing since the duo split in 1992. His long-awaited third ... When Riggins started playing the beat to the 1987 hit "I Know You Got Soul" by rap group Eric B. and Rakim, J-Rocc took visible notice and Madlib, Stones Throw's hyper-prolific musical backbone, immediately threw his hands in the air. The beat to "I ... In the 1980’s Alvin Toney introduced Eric B and Rakim to each other, starting their legendary career. He also launched Redman’s career by introducing him to Eric Sermon. For 12 years Alvin Toney provided security for EPMD and was the Executive ... Hazzy B said: ... with 2 live crew and Sir Mixalot, Gansta Gansta with Schooly D, Kool G Rap, Geto Boys and NWA plus lyrical MC like Kane, Rakim ... On "I Came In The Door," a song that in a lot of ways pays homage to the Eric B and Rakim track, "Eric B for President," Kokane does his thing with lines like, "I f--- up your system like 7-UP and Pop Rocks / push more weight than leopards and ... Here are my top mc's: big daddy kane eric b and rakim if it wasn't for them, there would be no jay. He even walked on biggie. How disrespectful. I was never able to feel jay after his transition. Because, he lost his humble attitude. Which is always ...
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