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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Album: Gershwin and The Klezmer
... who led the Coconut Grove Playhouse for 21 years before the historic theater's abrupt closing in May 2006, announced this week that he is getting back into theater with a production of The Soul of Gershwin: The Musical Journey of an American Klezmer ... Gershwin's "An American in Paris" one day and the soundtrack to "Planet of the Apes" the next. He didn't know about genres then, and he still makes a conscious effort to ignore them: Vagabond Opera cites influences as diverse as klezmer, tango, jazz ... This Grammy-winning guitar duo convincingly links George Gershwin, Claude Debussy, Darius Milhaud and the great bossa nova ... Golijov's impassioned music pulls Bach cantatas, klezmer laments, gypsy music, Brazilian percussion and droning Middle ... He described his early compositional career as "a zig-zag journey" and described his first love as the Klezmer music he heard at many weddings and bar-mitzvahs he attended as a youth. He also developed a passion for Gershwin, jazz and the old masters ... The audience was treated royally to a full range of the clarinet/sax genre, covering everything from Gershwin and Goodman. It ... Clarinet standards, yes, but they took the clarinet to its boundaries by featuring the klezmer style of playing in ... ... the Kennedy assassination is set against a backdrop of spirituals, blues, Motown , classical works and Jewish klezmer and ... Among the great Broadway songwriting teams, few outshine the Gershwin brothers, George and Ira. In the 1930s, they had a ... For starters, the Odyssey concert will include performances by the Urquhart School of Scottish Dance, traditional klezmer ... Soprano Tiffany Jackson, who also performs in the Saturday night concert, will sing a spiritual and Summertime, from Gershwin ... She performed in Mozart's "Magic Flute" with Opera Frankfurt, Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" with the Houston Grand Opera, and ... Dec. 2 holiday concert includes the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Piedmont Choirs, Mt. Eden High School Choir and klezmer ... A Night in the Old Marketplace Magic tale set to Klezmer music. Closes 10/21. Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St.; 215 ... Copland & Gershwin Pianist Eric Zuber in Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue.' Other works by Copland, Gershwni & Smith-Ormandy. West ...
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