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: Fishscale
Meanwhile, in the six years since that last Wu disc dropped, Ghost's star has shined particularly brightly, with 2000's tremendous Supreme Clientele laying the groundwork for 2006's even better Fishscale and his brand-new The Big Doe Rehab . Clearly ... In “Shakey Dog,” from last year’s Fishscale, Ghostface’s alter ego, Tony Starks, is in the backseat of a car eating French fries with ketchup on the way to snuff an enemy. He spills tartar sauce on his new shoes. His partner is a stutterer ... Ghostface Killa’s CD “Fishscale,” a street term for unrefined cocaine, has hair-raising stories worthy of a Walter Mosley, if not Claude Brown. Even Khalid’s raps have an element of racial pride; his frequent admonition “We da best ... In the six years the Clan were on hiatus, Ghostface Killah was busy becoming one of the greatest MCs ever. The Big Doe Rehab isn't as distinct as last year's Fishscale , but it's close. Ghost's bouncy, more direct approach on cuts like "Walk Around ... Ghost's impatience has harmed him before; sales of 2006's Fishscale were likely cannibalized by the release of More Fish eight and a half months later. (And vice versa.) Whereas Fishscale was a tour de force focused on the cocaine trade, More Fish was a ... Using backcountry skis with fishscale bases, we eased our way through, literally, waist-deep snow on the Beaver Meadows Trail, which leads to a natural amphitheater on the back side of Madonna Mountain. The front side of Madonna is one of the three ... Forget RZA or Method Man. Since the release of last year’s marvelous “Fishscale,” Ghostface Killah has become the Wu-Tang Clan member of the moment – the Wu du jour. His greasy bellow graced a bonus remix on Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black ... Stepping away from the cocaine-themed lyrics he used last year in his biggest solo success, Fishscale, he comes back down to earth for this effort. This time around, Ghostface sticks to real life situations, making the album a little more relatable ... Yo, this audio from Angie Ma's show on Hot 97 starts out with this "hot" new song from Chaka Khan and Mary J. The song is BA-NANAS! Anyway, Kanye West didn’t forget what Beans said about him being gay and all that stuff. Yesterday, Kanye told Angie ... He has most of his fellow Clan along for the ride — RZA's nowhere to be found, though — as well as Beanie Sigel , Chrisette Michele and others on the follow-up to Fishscale, which was widely ranked as one of the best rap releases of 2006. Wyclef ...
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