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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Gas
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said it will reduce electric rates Jan. 1 due to lower-than-expected natural gas and electricity prices. The utility company said late Thursday that average bundled electric rates will fall by 1.1 ... Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Natural gas at Canada's largest trading point may decline on speculation mild weather will pare home-heating demand. Overnight lows tomorrow in Toronto, Canada's largest city and the capital of Ontario, may be 34 degrees ... What: Piedmont Natural Gas Fourth Quarter 2007 Earnings Conference Call Webcast When: January 4, 2008 @ 2:30 pm EST Where: http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=44544 How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the address above ... Chattanooga, TN - The Tennessee Valley Authority will pay up to $180 million to one of its long-term contractors to help expand its electricity generation from natural gas-fired power plants, agency officials said. URS Corp., which acquired ... Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Electricite de France SA, Europe's largest power generator, completed the sale of five plants and a pipeline in Mexico for $1.45 billion to Gas Natural SDG SA, enabling the Spanish gas supplier to boost its electricity output ... MOSCOW/LONDON, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Hopes are high that political pragmatism will hold together gas price deals between Russia and its former satellites, lifting the threat of supply cuts for the first new year since January 2005. Moscow is ... Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Iran has stopped most exports of natural gas to Turkey just as consumption reaches record levels during winter, Sabah newspaper reported. Turkey receives 2 million cubic meters a day compared with the 29 million cubic meters ... BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - China and Japan pledged to build on their improving ties as Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda met the Chinese leadership, but a dispute over maritime gas fields remained unresolved. Fukuda, on his first visit to China since ... MOSCOW (Thomson Financial) - Rosneft said it aims to raise oil and gas condensate production by 10.9 pct to 111.9 mln tonnes in the coming year. Growth will be driven by projected output increases of 7.4 pct at RN-Yuganskneftegaz and 6.2 pct at ... SAN DIEGO – Poor ventilation contributed to a fuel-tank explosion that nearly killed a shipyard welder working on the Navy cruiser Lake Champlain last month in San Diego, said a labor official close to the federal investigation of the incident ...
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