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: Giraffe
Rare giraffe born at Perth Zoo PERTH Zoo has announced the birth of a rare Rothschild's Giraffe calf - the first born at the zoo in seven years. PERTH Zoo has announced the birth of a rare Rothschild's Giraffe calf - the first born at the zoo in seven years. The four-day-old female calf made her official debut today sticking close to her mother, Misha. Perth Zoo chief executive officer Susan ... The four-day-old female was born on Christmas Eve, weighing 55 kilos, and spent her first few days bonding with her mother Misha in their night quarters. Today, the 1.75m calf ventured into the African Savannah exhibit at Perth's zoo with her mother ... A Zimbabwean game ranger signals coffee and the start of a morning safari on the look-out for elephants, giraffe, possibly a black rhino. Not the sort of holiday you expect in Kent, just a few miles from the M20, but full marks to Port Lympne Wild ... They are the only living relative of the giraffe. The okapi have neat beds of straw and fastidious toilet habits: they go only in a designated place. The zebras, however, go anywhere. They are not above mounting their trough and defecating into their ... A rare giraffe, born in a zoo in the Australian city of Perth, has made its first public appearance. The 4-day-old Rothschild's giraffe is the first calf by the zoo's newly acquired male giraffe, Armani and Sarah, a 17-year-old female giraffe ... There's nothing taller on Earth: large giraffe bulls can be 6 m (20 ft) tall, and weigh up to 1.5 tonnes! If you look at giraffes across the African savannas, you'll see that they all look the same. With one exception: the shape and color of their ... It is often mistaken to be a relative of the zebra because it has similar black and white stripes on its legs. However, this animal is more closely related to the giraffe. The resemblance can be seen in the shape of the okapi's head and in its long ... ALDERGROVE - As a week-old baby giraffe struggles to stay alive at the the Greater Vancouver Zoo, animal welfare groups are questioning why the animal was bred in the first place. "He's still struggling at times to be bottle-fed. Sometimes he takes ... Giraffe reunites with family, says goodbye to Carlsbad By Katie Smoker This week Mriama the giraffe said goodbye to her owners, Anna Mae and Wade White, as well as the rest of Carlsbad. Mriama joined her mother, father and ...
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