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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Album: Harmonica Blues
Blues harmonica great James Cotton is at Scullers. Monday: The Music Workshop presents trumpeter Joe Moffett and drummer Croix Galipault mixing it up at the Fraternal Order of Eagles Lodge, Hyde Park. Tuesday: Lyrical pianist Yoko Miwa and her trio are ... Roomful of Blues is deep in the groove on "Raisin' a Ruckus," which introduces new members Dave Howard (vocals/harmonica), Ephraim Lowell (drums) and bassist Dima Gorodetsky. The 14 songs here include covers of Link Davis' "Big Mamou," the Doc Pomus ... Corky Siegel: With his legendary Siegel-Schwall Band, Siegel has earned a reputation as one of the great blues harmonica players. He’s also worked with symphonies around the world to develop innovative blues-classical music connections. Your tickets ... The Alabama Blues Project is recruiting students for its 10th annual spring afterschool blues camp. Beginning and intermediate students from ages 8 to 17 can learn to play guitar, voice, harmonica or drums with top area blues musicians. The program ... Over time he's added some of Portland's finest blues players to the mix, including former Fabulous Thunderbirds drummer Jimi Bott, harmonica ace David Lipkin and bassist Jason Honl. That quartet, like some muddy river, rolls on with dark and hypnotic ... Call 383-4245 for further information...Among the dancers liking the music on the 13th were Peter and Linda Pinkham, Glenn Mori and Kristen Corrigan, Betsey and Sam Harding and Jeanne and Dave Mason...The Up Bar at Horsefeathers has blues harmonica ... Interest in the blues began on hearing the legendary harmonica player Cyril Davies playing with the great Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated at the Ealing Jazz Club in London in 1962. The Ealing club was really the birth of the British blues movement ... W hat’s it like to see a blues show at the Kowloon restaurant in Saugus? Put it this way: It’s not every day you hear ... But after a few blasts from Montgomery’s harmonica and Johnny Winter’s guitar, the restaurant’s upstairs felt more like a ... Phil Berkowitz -- The Bay Area blues harmonica master brings his band to Freight & Salvage for a show dedicated to sax legend Louis Jordan. Details: 8 p.m. Jan. 18, 1111 Addison St., Berkeley, $18.50, 510-548-1761, http://www.thefreight.org . Reach ... Love -- his mama called him Garrett Dutton III -- rocks the harmonica and the guitar, and he loves hip-hop, blues and funk. The guitar-bass duo known as the Wood Brothers features Colorado-bred brothers Oliver and Chris. The latter will be recognized ...
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