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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Glenn Branca
She played a little with old-guard avant-gardist Glenn Branca in his 100-guitar symphony — not quite the place to get noticed. She also wrote and recorded her own songs. They became her first demos — a bare-bones collection of country-and-cabaret ... Drawing on detailed interviews with many of the scene's key players (Lydia Lunch, Arto Lindsay, and Glenn Branca, among others), as well as an exhaustive amount of archival material, Masters brings this secret history to vivid life. Even if your ... World Cafe, November 16, 2007 - As a member of the legendary New York rock band Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore has crafted a 26-year career out of dissonance and melody. Equally inspired by the experimental-rock guitar compositions of Glenn Branca and ... Playing highlights from the likes of The Power Out and this year’s No Shout, No Calls collection, their wall of sound and Glenn Branca meets Stereolab guitar skronk leaves more than one person shouting for more by the end of their brief set on the ... Local heroes such as Talking Heads, Suicide and the Funky 4 +1 mixed with the likes of Philip Glass, Glenn Branca and Jim Jarmusch. Part posed portraiture, part live reportage, New York Noise is a testament to the fertile culture that arose from the ... Glenn Branca - Centre Stage, Saturday - - - Glenn Branca ’s tiresome, shriek-shrill instrumentals (although, perhaps, enough time he was not afforded) have me wandering the halls once more, stopping only to take in a little Hawk And A Hacksaw . Jeremy ... ... with the hard-driving, progressive hip-hop group Dalek from Newark, New Jersey, which brings together the urgency and lyrical attack of Public Enemy with a solid backbeat, topped off with static guitar fuzz and straight-up noise a la Glenn Branca. In ... ... Clair Poole Hannah Walker Jenny Withers #Scarlett Sandra Wright Certificate of Higher Education Samantha Elizabeth Baker Benedict Oliver Ezio Branca Derek Patrick Dixon Rebecca Patricia Jean Newton Cherrelle Dominique Koryo Pallant Peter Glenn ... As I enter the Roundhouse in Camden, there's an immense jangling vibration, as though the building is shaking from within. And as the doors open, I'm blown back by the sound of electric guitars. Not two, as in your average band. Not three, five or 20 ... In the evening, at the Roundhouse in north London, avant-garde composer Glenn Branca will oversee a performance of his epic ensemble piece for 100 electric guitars, Symphony No 13: Hallucination City, as part of the Frieze Music programme (tickets ...
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