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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Hariprasad Chaurasia
Bhatt and virtuoso flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia. He also turned up to see the locally popular rock-fusion band Indian Ocean, which toured the United States in 2006. And, although the Rolling Stones completed a marathon two-year world tour in August ... Main stage artistes like Indian Ocean, Hariprasad Chaurasia and Tarhana, an evening inspired by Maand traditions from the courts of Rajasthan directed by sitar maestro Krishna Mohan Bhatt, are some of the main highlights of the festival. Three club ... Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, there, accepting the greetings of a kaftan clad, curly haired redhead, Americans in salwars and sarees, Indians in jeans and bandhgala s. All looking relaxed and radiant, a friendly and fraternal ambience permeating the ... Vocalists including Pandit Jasraj, Aarti Ankalikar-Tikekar, Malini Rajurkar, Ajay Pohankar, Shrikant Deshpande, Gundecha brothers and instrumentalists Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute), Ustad Shujaat Khan (sitar), Rahul Sharma (santoor) and ... ... the people he has worked with. “I am only now starting to understand the musical thinking of my friends like John McLaughlin or Mickey etc. and I feel a deep closeness with the music of Shiv Kumar Sharmaji or Hariji (flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia ... The famous flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia, on his visit to Shimla, could not resist the temptation of having dudh-jilebi at Nathu’s. Padam Dev, who later was the Education Minister in Parmar’s first ministry, was a regular to Nathu’s for aloo-puri Sri Rama Kala Vedike: Music by Sameer Rao, disciple of Hariprasad Chaurasia, Ananya, 91/2, 4th Main, Malleshwaram, 10 am. Sri Rama Lalitha Kala Mandir: Vocal recital by Gayathri Venkataraghavan, 9th Main Road, BSK 2nd Stage, 5 pm (ph 26710766) ... As part of 'Idea Jalsa', acclaimed artists including Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pandit Zakir Hussain, Pandit Jasraj Kailash Kher, Pankaj Udhas, Jagjit Singh and Haiharan would conduct 24 concerts in 22 cities across the country from September to ... Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and Shubha Mudgal will also showcase their talents. A SAARC poetry convention is also on schedule in February 2008. Roopankar would host an exhibition of -- besides lectures and seminars on -- the works of Padmashri ... His historic collaboration with Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia in films like “Silsiley”, “Lamhe”, Chandni” and “Darr” is still unforgettable. About Pt Chaurasia, he says: “We first collaborated in an album titled “Call of the Valley ...
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