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: Good Game: The Transition
The Tigers opened the fourth period with a 19-7 run that included the go-ahead three-pointer by David Barlow (10 points) with 8min 25sec left in the game. Once the Tigers built their momentum, turning good defence into transition offence, there was ... ... overseeing one 6-4 victory in the last month , reaffirmed his commitment to the "attractive" game. ... We are improving little by little," the 53-year-old said, still adjusting to the transition from life at Sevilla. "We're looking for a good style ... We played ugly, but we won,” L-P head coach Reid Olson said. “We didn’t do a good job of running our offense and our transition game was there, but we had several two-on-ones that we didn’t convert.” The ... When you are going through a transition period you need things to be as smooth as possible. Results like this make it very ... The mood before the game was good. But the harsh reality is we have come up against a better side. 'What happened in the second ... ... This is how you bury a bad home loss and open a critical, four-game trip. This is ... Joe Smith, taunted good-naturedly by ex-teammates when they spoiled the Bulls ... second-quarter minutes with long-armed defense that led to turnovers and transition ... ... LSU defense, said, "We're a lot more free on offense, and that's been kind of difficult transition. But it's good for our team with the players we have. "I think this one of the best whole games we've had, for all 40 minutes. This was a good game all ... Consuming passions are in transition By Elizabeth Rigby and Roger Blitz Published ... The grocers – bar M&S – are having a relatively good time. Diners are not ... Game Group , the computer games retailer, performed well, while John Lewis also ... ... of a period and the last two minutes,” Stars coach Jimmy McGroarty said. “We got a power-play goal in the first two minutes and a goal in the last two minutes and gave ourselves a chance the rest of the game.” The Stars were good in transition ... Hoyas center Roy Hibbert averages just 6.4 rebounds a game this season. ... There are many different ways to approach something you're not good at," said ... And then it's their rebounding and transition. They go get it, and they've done that ... Creighton is seemingly perpetually appearing in the 7-10 game. And then there was ... too early in the race to draw any conclusions, but what we're seeing is a transition ... We just couldn't attract good enough talent. So that's why there are two walk-ons ...
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