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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Ghostface Killah
Jay-Z, "American Gangster" (Roc-a-Fella) - It was a predictable year in hip-hop in which the bigwigs submitted the best - Kanye West, Common, Ghostface Killah, even a reactivated Wu-Tang Clan. But none topped the reigning (and formerly retired) chief ... And just for kicks writer/director Lawrence Kasdan and co-writer Judd Apatow (who directed THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN and KNOCKED UP) throw in the real-life Eddie Vedder, Jewel, Lyle Lovett, Jackson Browne and Ghostface Killah, among others. But the ... ... the most ambitious set of big screen comedy tunes to come along since Christopher Guest's 2003 folk revival romp "A Mighty Wind." The original music of the film spans decades of pop styles, from the innocent '50s ("Take My Hand") to Ghostface Killah ... Still groundbreaking, but … Then Ghostface Killah, a Wu-Tang member, decided that he was going to release his new album on the same day as Diagrams . Despite rumored tensions, RZA, ever the chess master, decided to retreat, ensuring that everyone ... A 'tribute version' ups the absurdity by having Jewel yodel behind rapper Ghostface Killah. 'Paper Planes,' M.I.A.: With a catchy chorus of gunfire, cash register bell and gleeful stickup kids, this pulls you in and pushes you ... Ghostface Killah, the group's most commercially viable solo member, seemed to be boycotting the early stages of the recording process, although he eventually relented. Initially upset over financial dealings with the group's "hierarchy" (which, one ... It sounds like a set-up for disaster, but “Heart” might be the best thing on “8 Diagrams.” It’s certainly the strongest lyrically, with Raekwon, Method Man and Ghostface Killah rapping about gritty confrontations over epic instrumentation ... Graduation (Roc-A-Fella/Universal) / Ghostface Killah: The Big Doe Rehab (Island Def Jam/Universal). As self/success-obsessed as West is, nobody in hip-hop can match his musicality, or the intimacy of his lyrical delivery. As for veteran Wu-Tang ... ... aid of some sort of steps, Wee Man from Jackass is free to rub shoulders with Hollywood mysterio and prosthetic penis salesman Vincent Gallo while half of Alice in Chains can be found bearing witness to the return of Crowded House as Ghostface Killah ... Rakim, Ghostface Killah, Brother Ali Had Ghostface Killah grown up in a different time, he might have been an epic poet. But as a dude reared in Staten Island with his fellow members of the Wu-Tang Clan, rap was his vehicle. Killah has written some ...
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