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: Fine De Siecle
... tour de force, set in Vienna in 1902, that combines the search for a serial killer with a vibrant portrait of fin-de-siecle ... An anti-Semitic artist goes to Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts and is enthralled by Hieronymus Bosch's "The Last Judgment ... If, like Baudelaire and most of his bohemian confrères, one had limited resources, a fine vest, a lace cuff, a draft of ... architecture, furniture, glasswork, pottery and whatever else engaged the refined visual intelligence of fin de siècle Europe. ... Spain to make a series of perilous journeys through history: through Inquisition-era Venice, fin-de-siecle Vienna, and the Nazi ... The mother sits serenely in the fine gown and jeweled headdress of the day. Probably the scene is a portrait of the family ... ... whisper “genius,” or “beatific,” or “God-like,” or “God.” They replenish my table with roasted meats and fine wine. Then, they create a feudal system in which I deny all capitalist bourgeois ascendancy and reinstall the fin de siècle ... All this would be grist for a book that sought to define 1997 as another defining fin de siècle year for journalism. Unlike many ... The weakness of Campbell's fine book is that the triangular paradigm punch-out he promises to chronicle was really a one ... My favorite is Trattoria da Orlando at the end of the town, in its oldest section, the one dotted with fin de siecle villas ... tartare, seafood carbonara and spaghetti d'Orlando (in which the clams, mussels, shrimp and calamari are chopped so fine ... Education: The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1955–61) Artist: Graphic works, paintings, book illustrations (for authors ... Since 2003, he has been running — in cooperation with Prague 6 — Galerie Anderle (Anderle Gallery), a fin de siecle villa ... ... the requisites so loved by middle-class Brits: tree-lined boulevards, thriving culture, good shops. There's even a fine ... Historic fragments abound: prized are the fin de siècle maisons de ville. West to Boulogne is a coast of sandy beaches, cliffs ... Romans were more known for their wine drinking, which requires fine glassware. Find out more about them at the Red House ... At The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, things are rather more fin de siècle, with an eye-catching exhibition on the pretty ... Back at sea level, there's a smart 1960s lido, which looks a fine place to while away a summer eating blackcurrant ices ... drifts you past the island's grandest mansions, as well as the beautifully restored Kultur Ev, a museum of fin de siecle island ...
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