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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Factory 81
Elsewhere in Indonesia, thousands of factory workers and villagers scrambled to higher ground as sirens blared in a drill. In Ciwandan on Java's northwestern coast, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono watched the drill to test a tsunami early warning ... Just down the street, the Tanger Factory Outlet Center in San Marcos reported increased traffic to its stores throughout the holiday season, said Michelle Carswell, center spokeswoman. But it's still too early to tabulate sales ... ... vehicle market stands at 51.1 per cent, down from 53.9 per cent in 2006, from 60 per cent just four years ago and from 81 ... most productive auto maker operating in North America, according to the latest in a long-running series of studies on factory ... ... foreign brand in Russia in January-June 2007, with sales totaling 84,467 vehicles, followed by Ford with sales of 81,782 ... According to Vedomosti, Nissan plans to produce two models at its St. Petersburg factory: the Teana sedan and the X-Trail off ... ... 1 -0.4 -1.4 -5.3 5.9 12/27 NonDef Captl: : 75.9 73.0R 74.9R 71.4 81.1 12/27 ... NA : -0.8 0.2R 0.4R -0.8 01/03 Factory Ords : : 423.5 421.2R 420.1 ... After recalling 81,000 vehicles in 2005, VW recalled 950,000 in 2006 and 1.5 million in 2007. The recalls this year ... We've done a lot to improve quality not only at the factory but throughout the dealer network and internal service operations ... Nov Factory Ord (% chg) : NA NA NA : 0.5 : 01/03 :1630: Dec Domestic Vehicle Sales: NA NA NA ... NA NA NA : 81.5 : 01/17 :0830: Dec Housing Starts : NA NA NA : 1.187 : 01/17 :0830: % change ... Manufacturing jobs provide average annual earnings, which includes wages and benefits, of more than $81,000 in Gary’s Lake County. That kind of money means factory workers can afford decent homes and cars and can contribute more to the tax base ... Hours of heavy rain triggered landslides Wednesday that killed at least 81 people in western Indonesia, a rescue official ... Elsewhere in Indonesia, thousands of factory workers and villagers scrambled to higher ground as sirens blared in a drill to ... Qatar's Doha Securities Market Index declined 0.2 percent to 9,619.81. Bahrain's stock market increased 0.4 percent to 2 ... company with interests in construction, energy and technology, and unidentified investors will build a new aluminum factory in ...
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