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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Funkadelic
... above), righteous rock-renegades Taxi Violence, operatically inclined punks Verismo, ska-godfathers The Rudimentals, indie-dance heroes The Beams, instrumental soundsmiths kidofdoom and more. The list of DJs is even more impressive. Italian funkadelic ... American Indian Affairs Animal Cruelty Biodiesel Wars Books Business Campaign 2008 Campaign Cash Celebrity Death City of Seattle Comments of the Week Contention & Conscious County of King Crime & Punishment D.C. in Seattle Design Dinosaurs Education ... Moog’s namesake analog synthesizer helped catapult the careers of such a diverse list of artists as rockers Edgar Winter, Todd Rundgren, Gary Numan and Devo, funkster Bernie Worrell with Parliament-Funkadelic, disco producer Giorgio Moroder with ... While I Just Want to Be Held used the grinding, melodic style of Mayer's '60s nuggets like "Leave Me Alone" and "I'm In Love" as a jumping off point, Why Don't You Give It to Me? imagines him in Parliament-Funkadelic mode, backed by Outrageous Cherry's ... At 55, the former bassist for Parliament, Funkadelic and James Brown is now regarded as an elder statesman of hip hop. “It’s a blessing and an honor to be a part of this,” he said, gold tooth flashing. “It’s all about how these guys have ... A hop, skip, or jump from Newark, NYC, or Philly, Queen City endured industrial decay, race riots, crack cocaine, and the fame (or blame) for flinging that ineffable sonic stank known as Parliament-Funkadelic into the stratosphere. (Where's the ... On Friday, October 12, the most popular sports talk radio show in the history of Dallas prepared for a routine remote broadcast at Addison's Blackfin Pub. KTCK-1310 AM The Ticket afternoon co-host Mike Rhyner arrived on time. Longtime sidekick Greg ... THAT GEORGE CLINTON. He's known as much for his cosmic rhythms as his wild, colorful getups. The funk and soul mastermind behind Parliament and Funkadelic has changed sounds (he started out in doo wop in the 1950s) and labels (he's been signed to ... Bernie Worrell On Earth, a new DVD from MVD Visual that documents the talented keyboardist who joined the Washington Symphony Orchestra at age 10 and later became the backbone for a variety of associates from Parliament Funkadelic and the Talking ... He learned his craft playing with James Brown during the early '70s, then later provided riverting licks and foundations for Parliament/Funkadelic before getting the chance to highlight his own band during a period when George Clinton was signing ...
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