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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Future World Orchestra
Although his college plans are unconfirmed at this time, Kevra-Lenz plans to pursue future study in music. Currently, he is a senior at Montpelier High School. The orchestra will also present the world premiere of "In Bohemia," an original composition ... ... her audience another curveball with "Destination Moon," an old-school, full-orchestra ... caught up with her to talk about "Destination Moon," Broadway, and her pop future. ... It's a very different audience than the pop world. It really forced me to focus ... A boyish 24-year-old violinist from Hampstead is taking the orchestral world by storm, as leader of the edgy Aurora Orchestra and co-leader of ... immediate impact will be with small, adventurous, elite groups such as Aurora which are the future of ... ... create a time machine that allows participants to travel 100 years into the future ... have never heard the Vermont Philharmonic, the state’s oldest community orchestra ... Music and culture from other parts of the world are also represented in this year ... These days, biggest drama at local stages is over source of future funding ... Crumbine, a member of the resident chorus of the Connecticut Grand Opera & Orchestra. ... or old, "that speak directly to an audience about what is going on in the world ... ... marketing and bookkeeping machine that kept the financially struggling orchestra ... symphony with financial woes taking a "critical timeout" to assess its future and ... And it's hard to stay relevant in a world of instant entertainment." "It's hard to ... ... hearted, raw-limbed, clear-eyed, tenacious settlers intent on building the future ... it first appeared in 1943, "Oklahoma!" dazzled (some say reinvented) the world ... Bingaman's 27-piece orchestra can get shrill now and then, there are plenty of ... ... for Sunday's "A Night with Ronan Tynan and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra" concert, which has been sold out for the past month, according to the BPO. ... exits — but will soon re-enter Looking into the crystal bowl: The future of ... ... in which [she] rouses an audience of 2,000 to enthusiasm is one in which the real world is forgotten for a moment, in which there is no faith in the future ... as principal boy in Humpty Dumpty and in 1944 sang with Glenn Miller and his orchestra days ... And following music director Andrew Litton’s departure, Dallas Symphony Orchestra ... means the arts community has looked to new blood to lead the way to the future. ... The world has changed — for the arts and for gay men. Palant: Totally changed ...
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