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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Gentleman
And through it all, he was a gentleman. He was a classy, amiable, baseball professional whose skill combined with personal character to make 2007 a treasure of a season for a Detroit baseball community that, quite accurately, will never forget him. ... He did not wipe the slate clean, after his ghostly visitations, simply by making a donation to the portly gentleman who was raising a fund for the poor, but by resolving to change his ways in future. As the financial crisis unfolds in 2008, with all ... ... obituary with the declaration that those who worked for him - and indeed everyone who came to know him properly - considered him one of the most extraordinary and lovable Englishmen of his time. He was also one of the most complex. A gentleman ... In The Man Who Was Frankenstein (1979), Haining suggested that Mary Shelley's inspiration might have been Andrew Crosse, a Somerset gentleman and amateur scientist who terrified his neighbours by using lightning as a source of power for electrical ... At one point the we got round to subject of the execution of her father whereupon the gentleman sitting next to me commented to her that "well, you are safe now, living in Britain", to which she quietly, but forcefully replied. "My father sacrificed ... And a Hall of Fame coach and gentleman, Bill Walsh, passed away after a long bout with leukemia. Pacman Jones was suspended for the season. Tank Johnson was booted for half a season. Michael Vick, once the face of the NFL, is behind bars. And, heck ... Susan Cambridge, who sent in this picture, said: "I was stunned to look out of my window (on Thursday morning) to see a flock of about a dozen parakeets settle in my neighbour's garden in Gentleman's Row. "I grabbed my camera, by which time most had ... She was 7 when her mother died, but she treasures memories of growing up with aunts and her "gentleman farmer" father. "We grew our own food and raised cattle and horses," said Evers, "and every Saturday night was steak night." She wanted to go to ... We did recently have one elderly gentleman bitten by a rattlesnake right here (east side) by the visitor center, but it didn't inject any poison. Except for the two little tooth holes, he had no pain or discomfort." Danton stressed that humans rarely ... The contest pits the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki , a man who has a reputation as a courtly gentleman and economics whiz but also as a tribal politician, against Raila Odinga, a rich, flamboyant businessman who rides around in a bright red $100,000 Hummer ...
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