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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Guillemots
In 2006, we were subjected to both inarguable poppy brilliance and unforgivable sloppy shite: for every amazing single from the likes of Klaxons, Peter Björn And John, Guillemots and Mates Of State, there was a Daz Sampson. Daz Sampson . Ef Ef Esssss ... Watching puffins, guillemots and gannets in their natural environment is an opportunity not to be missed. And you might even spot a dolphin or two if your luck is in. Not too far away, at East Fortune, lies the Museum of Flight. Aeroplanes, rockets ... But don't do anything foolish with the leftovers . . . it's going to be a long cold winter. CDs: You asked for the Guillemots but got Girls Aloud. Don't worry because there will be someone you know who asked for Girls Aloud and got the ... The series kicks off on November 17 at 11 p.m. with Virgin1 Presents The Guillemots at The Astoria, to be followed by Virgin1 Presents Robert Plant at The Cornbury Music Festival. Other artists to be featured include The Buzzcocks, The Magic Numbers ... ... Death Cab For Cutie - "I Will Follow You into the Dark" Leonard Cohen - "Dance Me To The End Of Love" Billie Holiday - "How Deep Is The Ocean" Al Green - "Let's Stay Together" Hour 4 - Listen The Flaming Lips - "Do You Realize" Guillemots - "Made Up ... Gone are the long lines of cormorants flying fast across the bay, close to the water; gone the great squadrons of pelicans traversing the shoreline at sunset; gone the pigeon guillemots who fished the east side of Alcatraz and gone the little bird ... Berry will talk about both migratory and winter resident birds on Cape Ann, including ducks, grebes, loons, guillemots, razorbills, gannets, gulls and cormorants. Admission is free. Call Joanne Souza at 978-281-8079 or visit www.schooner-adventure.org ... Western and horned Grebes; and pigeon guillemots, common and Barrow's goldeneyes. Belted kingfishers, and hairy and pileated woodpeckers live here year-round. Spring brings colorful migrants: Rufous hummingbirds, American goldfinches and tree and ... Guillemots released their debut album, too; we might just have liked it . That, and TV On The Radio's quite, quite magnificent Return To Cookie Mountain . Lifesblood of DiS, content editor Mike Diver, risked life, limb and reputation by interviewing ... Razorbills, cormorants, murres, gulls, guillemots, diving ducks, and other birds nest here in summer, leaving the islands for the south in late August. The only birds left on the tundra in winter are snowy owls and ptarmigan. Polar bears can be seen ...
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