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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Forsaken
Sanctimoniously proclaiming themselves piously religious and patriotic, they have forsaken both the Bible and the Constitution. Mr. Bush, when asked if he had consulted his father prior to the invasion of Iraq, devoutly declared that he had ... Most Commented Stuck to the window of the Jefferson County District Attorney's office in Beaumont is a poster with the admonishment "Never Hurt a Child. Never, Never, Never." It's been a core platform issue for Tom Maness, who's held the office for ... Williams, a giving, kindhearted woman, has been feeding the forgotten and forsaken for 40 years now. Before it became the Mary Jane Enrichment Center, the building was the Mary Jane Hotel, situated next to an Acme supermarket, a Today's Man, a five ... She argues that the dog's owners have forsaken the right to keep such a tender animal because they failed to shower him with loving care when he was ill. That's triggered a bizarre custody battle that has both sides howling for sympathy. His family had forsaken him. Nobody would talk to him. He didn't have any friends left. I talked to a counselor about it one day, and he said, "It finally got to the point where we had to tell his family you've got to just turn your back on him. He's ... Then live in 30,000 log cabin near Herouxville or some other God forsaken place. Then your revenue will be about 250,000 a year without denting your capital. Most people are in the middle of these extremes; unfortunately too many people think that a ... Visitors to north-eastern Kenya from the capital Nairobi are sometimes asked "How's Kenya?" as if it was a foreign country. The question, offered with real curiosity, not irony, shows just how isolated the mainly Muslim and nomadic people of this ... What in hell does it take to get some action on the part of the state law enforcement agencies? Is there no oversight available anywhere in this apparently God-forsaken state? It is beginning to look like the state is filled with crooks and they ... Those desperate, abandoned, forsaken, deceived, abused, angry people are clearly vulnerable to exploitation by those hostile intelligence services, and they may have no compunction about selling this country out to its enemies. They could be CIA or ... The intricate instrumentation and southern soul upon which Virginia Coalition built its reputation is far from forsaken, but on Home This Year , the songs, and not the sound, are showcased. The three held themselves up to exacting standards, and ...
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