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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Glass, Philip
... the same Hwang whose name has been attached to such flabby Disney extravaganzas as "Aida" and "Tarzan," who got lost in Hollywood while putting Asian flavor in network sitcoms, whose individual voice disappeared inside librettos for Philip Glass ... On Feb. 8 legendary composer Philip Glass plays his own music at the Lied Center in a program called “Etudes and Other Work for Solo Piano.” Those programs usher in a cavalcade of keyboard titans in February and March: Raymond Lowenthal (Feb. 9 ... Jessie Otto Hite getting the new Blanton Museum of Art facilities built, Richard Buckley bringing Philip Glass' opera Waiting for the Barbarians to Austin for its U.S. premiere, Ann Ciccolella working for passage of Proposition 4 with $10 million in ... "We are fortunate to be living in a time when there is a lot of good wine from around the world," Philip Cook was telling me the other day. Cook's favorite everyday wine is an Australian cabernet sauvignon made by Yellow Tail, the winemaker whose ads ... Kiki Smith, Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg, and Brice Marden speak eloquently about Close, but Cajori goes further, constructing a primer on the work of those individuals as well, who define their own aesthetics by setting themselves in relief to ... The puckish pastel touches with which Brodsky brightens up the space don't dissipate the works' essential darkness, heightened by Philip Glass's plangent music. The wobbling starts with Rough for Theatre I , a dialogue for a blind man and street ... Philip Langridge, resembling Mrs. Doubtfire, cavorts with such good-natured glee that he's more comical than frightening. And we almost feel sorry for him after the witch is locked inside the oven when he knocks on the glass door, as if certain that ... Philip, Linda and their two children, Cameron and Jillian, make up one active family of sports enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and ... I also put in a cool glass coffee table, a whimsical soft yellow throw rug and an abundance of accent pillows in salmon and ... On the same day Barwell learned that his elder brother Philip, who was the group captain commanding the fighter base at RAF ... She was an accomplished artist, glass engraver and enamel worker, and Barwell would drive her, with a caravan in tow, all ... Mat Campbell dragged his team out of the soup with a big triple and John Philip had a big lay-up but Special K was very ... luck the Blaze will be on the road so I'll have to just lie on a beach towel by the pool, sipping a drink from a glass with ...
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