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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Heist
An Oak Lawn father and son accused of attempting a late-night heist at a Metra station in Orland Park have been released from jail and are due back in court Jan. 9, officials said Thursday. Orland Park police arrested Mark Anderson, 40, and his son ... Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" -- At age 83, director Sidney Lumet shows he still knows his way around a crime story better than almost anyone with this crackling heist-gone-wrong tale starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei ... SCOTTSDALE - A man used a taxi as his getaway car in a bank robbery Wednesday night, police said. Sgt. Mark Clark of the Scottsdale Police Department gave this account of the 5 p.m. robbery: A man walked into a First Arizona Savings branch, in the ... Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies have arrested a woman suspected of selling lawn equipment stolen from a Roebuck teenager to a Greer pawn shop. Aleah Marie Roberts, 34, of 4371 Old Furnace Road in Chesnee was taken into custody Thursday after ... COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The man with the gun ordered workers at a fast-food restaurant not to answer the phone. But one worker's voice-activated headset didn't co-operate. Police said Keith Sturgill entered a Wendy's restaurant Wednesday morning and held ... A Christmas Eve bank robbery in Hempstead was thwarted when an employee, unaware of the crime in progress, delayed the robber's exit by starting a conversation with him, Nassau police said. Rishon McCallister, 19, of 7 Decatur St., Roosevelt, was ... Law enforcement agencies believe the same burglars struck at least eight different grocery stores closed for Christmas in three different Bay Area counties in an unusual holiday heist. In each incident, the thieves pried open the front door of the ... We all have those certain films we throw on around the holidays: It's A Wonderful Life , A Christmas Story , Miracle on 34th Street, and so on -- each, in their way, a Christmastime staple. But now and then, you're longing for some holiday viewing ... Education minister Naledi Pandor has congratulated matriculants, schools and teachers for achieving a national pass rate of 65 percent. She praises both the Western Cape and Gauteng for garnering the top 2 spots, but ads more work needs to be done in ... Authorities arrested a man and woman on charges they planned the elaborate bank heist that ended in the death of a pizza deliveryman in 2003. The deliveryman, Brian Wells, 46, told police he had been forced at gunpoint to rob a bank near Erie while ...
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