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: Fallen
Anyone who's ever watched VH1's "Behind the Music" knows that sudden fame always brings (1) drugs and (2) booze. No one knows this more than Tampa's Jessica Sierra, whose drug and alcohol use was spotlighted in run-ins with the law at the Hyde Park ... First things first: Let's forget last season ever happened. Let's get out our industrial-sized pop culture eraser and remove from our collective brains the memory of Sanjaya Malakar's "pony hawk," Haley Scarnato's golden gams -- forgetting her voice ... U.K. homebuilder shares have fallen this year as overall selling prices declined in the final quarter of 2007 and home loan approvals dropped to a three-year low in November. Taylor Wimpey may slow the pace of a 750 million pound share buyback ... The coalition parties have fallen out over calls by Roland Koch, CDU state premier of Hesse, for harsher sentences for young immigrant criminals. The Social Democrats have dismissed as ``populist'' Koch's attempts to ride a wave of public revulsion ... Stocks in the U.S. have fallen three straight weeks and posted their worst start to a year since 1991, amid concern the economy will contract. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. joined Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch & Co. last week in estimating that the ... The company, which plans to go public in a Hong Kong market that has fallen nearly 7 percent so far in 2008 while big U.S.-listed gaming operators have also been battered, has been targeting a Feb. 1 trading debut. Macau has received billions of ... There isn't another contested Democratic primary for 9 more days ? What are we supposed to do in the meantime? Can't they speed the process up? ... 12:09.A.M. Only waterwork s works: Now he 's crying . [ via Lucianne ] 2:36 A.M. I'm as flummoxed as ... Its shares have fallen 9.2 percent over the last 12 months. "Although general international and national economic conditions remain uncertain and could have an unforeseen impact, we maintain a favourable outlook for Indra in 2008," the firm said in a ... By 10.10 am, Northern Rock shares were down 13.33 pct at 71 pence, having earlier fallen as low as 67-3/4 pence. 'It's due to a creeping fear of nationalisation at a price well below the current share price,' said Simon Willis, banks analyst at ... Continued job growth is helping create pent-up need for homes, he said, while mortgage interest rates have fallen below 6 percent, a two-year low. Yun acknowledged that some economists are predicting massive price drops, but he said some of those ...
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