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: High Definition
Will someone please explain why we desperately need high-definition television? Why is the government forcing us to buy new televisions or spend $40 per converter box to install on our existing TVs? Can you imagine the zillions of TV sets that will ... Philips Eco TV -- A green HDTV? Philips' 42PFL5603D, available in March for $1,400, makes a case with power consumption less than 100 watts -- a comparable screen typically uses at least twice that amount -- when the 1080p set automatically dims the ... NDS NNDS , the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that it has joined forces with Kaonmedia (Kaon) to deliver digital set-top boxes (STB) and DVRs, including a DVR for viewing in High Definition, to ASTER, a ... Toshiba has slashed prices on its recorders further after Time Warner Inc's (TWX.N) Warner Bros studio announcement earlier this month that it would release high-definition DVDs only in rival Sony Corp 's (6758.T) Blu-ray format. But Toshiba kept its ... Where once digital might have been enough, high definition is the new benchmark for most people, as the superior picture and audio quality of HDTV broadcasts have won them over. The TV screen has gone flatter as it's gone HD. Cathode-ray tubes and ... Toshiba has slashed prices on its recorders further after Time Warner Inc's <TWX.N> Warner Bros studio announcement earlier this month that it would release high-definition DVDs only in rival Sony Corp's <6758.T> Blu-ray format. But Toshiba kept ... ... Properties owners of New York's landmark Plaza Hotel, and by operator Fairmont Hotels to provide Guest-Tek's OneView(TM) Media platform to provide the Plaza Hotel with free-to-guest ("FTG") Internet protocol television ("IPTV") with high-definition ... gigabyte SD (Secure Digital) flash memory card with Class 6 speed specification, able to store up to eight hours of high-definition video. The newly developed card, still a prototype, is capable of sustained write speeds of at least 6 megabytes a ... UK retail chain Woolworths, one of the country’s biggest sellers of high-definition discs, said today that it was going to stop stocking HD DVD discs, claiming that in the last month they were outsold ten-to-one by Blu-ray. Meanwhile, one of Ireland ... TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On2 Technologies, Inc. (Amex: ONT), a leader in video compression solutions, today unveiled plans for Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona, February 11 - 14 2008. Following its recent ...
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