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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Gloomy Grim
But the news was gloomy across the board, even in formerly healthy markets. “No matter how you look at these data, it is obvious that the current state of the single-family housing market remains grim,” Robert Shiller, one of the economists who ... Showing apparently little concern for a predictions of a gloomy economic forecast in the new year, it was estimated that they ... are how far it will affect the overall figure for December, because the first three weeks of December were pretty grim so ... Like others at the crossroads of Nick Cave and Drake, Sykes' goth folk can teeter between beautifully gloomy and just plain ... minor-key wallowing, as on the Jefferson Airplane-inspired backbeat of "You Might Walk Away," Sykes pulls off the grim ... Awkwardly positioned, this gloomy gothic fantasy falls well short of horror, leaving grim theatrical prospects beyond whatever curiosity the filmmaker's reputation and the mini-controversy can scare up. Although Shyamalan indicates in the storybook ... NEW YORK - Stocks sold off Friday after a jump in consumer inflation raised concerns about how much freedom the Federal Reserve has to continue cutting interest rates. The Labor Department said the consumer price index rose 0.8 percent in November ... It's not easy to change the culture of a baseball setting overnight, especially when the mood is gloomy and grim. Baker did it in Chicago, right up to the Steve Bartman night at Wrigley, and Leyland did it this year in Detroit. Almost immediately, in ... The chances for the bill getting even that far, given how narrowly divided the Senate is, are grim. But environmentalists shouldn't get too down-hearted by the gloomy prospects for the bill. An energy bill with teeth will require Democratic control ... ... is worth bearing in mind that the American economy has a history of unexpected resilience in the face of supposedly grim ... The most bearish indulge frighteningly gloomy tones. "The evidence is now building that an ugly recession is inevitable ... But I think these gloomy predictions are probably wrong. The truth is that people are developing interesting social skills to ... You could regard this as a sad development — the whole Brand Called You meme brought to its grim apotheosis. But haven't ... After all, there's grim news all around. Gasoline and heating-oil prices are about 35 percent higher than they were a year ... But despite the gloomy headlines, there are solid reasons for consumers to be comfortable spending. These forces don't ...
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