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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Haemorrhage
Former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, who is recuperating at a city hospital after an open heart surgery, on Thursday donated Rs one lakh to a poor patient undergoing treatment for brain haemorrhage. The parents of the 27-year-old Anjana ... Tributes have been paid to the Irish singer Joe Dolan who died aged 64 from a suspected brain haemorrhage in Dublin on Wednesday. The entertainer took ill at his home in Foxrock on Christmas night and died in the Mater Hospital just after 0300 GMT pm ... The viewer haemorrhage is expected to continue until 2012, by which time every home in Britain will be obliged to convert to digital. ITV2, aimed at websurfing viewers aged 16-35, was the most popular multichannel, boosted by Secret Diary of a Call ... The 64-year-old took ill at his home in Foxrock on Christmas night and died just after 3pm on Boxing Day from a suspected brain haemorrhage. A former showband singer, Mr Dolan enjoyed musical success for over 40 years in Ireland and around the world ... Choi had brain surgery for a cerebral haemorrhage. "It seems like the outlook for his recovery is very bad. Even if he does recover, there seems to be a high chance he will be in a vegetative state," said Han Bo-young, vice president and secretary ... Anita Roddick, Body Shop entrepreneur and ethical consumer champion, died of a brain haemorrhage. She was 61. Dame Anita founded a worldwide cosmetics empire from her home in Littlehampton, before selling it to L'Oréal for £652 million. Thousands ... The popular entertainer died yesterday after suffering a brain haemorrhage. The removal will take place to the Cathedral of Christ the King, arriving at half past six tomorrow evening. The funeral mass will take place at 11am on Saturday morning ... The singer took ill on Christmas night and after being rushed to hospital he suffered a brain haemorrhage and slipped into a coma. He died with his family by his bedside. One of a family of seven, Dolan is survived by his brothers, Ben who ... The much-loved entertainer from Mullingar passed away in hospital yesterday afternoon after suffering from a brain haemorrhage. He was 64, and had been ill for some time. The Taoiseach described Joe Dolan as "a fantastic showman, with a great stage ... He was rushed into hospital earlier this month, and it's believed he died from a brain haemorrhage. Joe Dolan was born in Mullingar in 1943, and was best known for hits like 'Make me and Island' and 'Good Looking Woman
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