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: Fictions
They should offer more than one-word answers or Hollywood fictions as reasons for expending American lives. They should be willing to learn more about foreign policy than they needed for local political office in central Illinois. I’m not going to ... Like the PLO, they are FICTIONS. The Jewish people have returned. We are in our land to stay. G-d is not a sensationalist. He is not a magician nor a trickster. His ways are not mans ways. In any event, His Conception is absolutely true and imminent ... ... extremes, while convenient, leave no room for those who occupy both sides of the fence — for people whose complex identities challenge arbitrary divisions. The realities are much more nuanced and, perhaps, surprising than the politicized fictions. This compilation is a valuable addition to our large and growing list of local history books. ----- David Janott works and reads books at Red Bluff's independent bookdealer, FACTS and Fictions bookstore. Book Beat appears monthly in the ... ACCLAIMED actor Edward Fox will be appearing at Malvern Theatres next month in a comedy double-bill Legal Fictions by writer John Mortimer, the creator of the famous Rumpole. Edward Fox, who plays a barrister in The Dock Brief and a retired judge in ... But this month, the Washington Times' Bill Gertz reported on a not entirely dissimilar real-life version of such fictions, the termination of Maj. Stephen Coughlin (USAR). Coughlin, a lawyer and reserve military intelligence officer, has been the ... Our pioneers and heroes were violent men, and many of our celebrated fictions, and celebrated realities, are based on themes of social and interpersonal violence. Even our more interesting anti-heroes tend to have violent themes. We do not, however ... In even-less-serious news, it's a big day on the 'tween front. The Clinton campaign announced that America Ferrara and Amber Tamblyn have endorsed the senator from New York. Can you feel the excitement? Ferrara is the star of Ugly Betty . You might ... ... on living in California. He is known variously as Nuisance Man, Caveman, Lubejob, the Dialectrician, and "Hey, you bozo with the long hair!" He blogs, or something like that, at newsince.com . He also highbrows at dialectrics.com and fictions at ... But artists like Altman never get away from these seductive fictions unscathed -- there's always the odd bit of mortality left behind, a signal that making art takes something out of you. 3. " Pan's Labyrinth ": Guillermo Del Toro 's gorgeous (and ...
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