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 Notes
Our best of 2007 classical music selections are a mix of the year's most worthy CD releases and live opera performances. 1. "SIMON BOCCANEGRA" at the Metropolitan Opera. To hear Fabio Luisi conduct Verdi is a musical highlight not only of a season ... Shae Marx was in sixth grade when epiphany struck. "I remember when suddenly I was singing and I didn't sound like a girl who didn't practice," she said, her voice slightly breathless with excitement. "All of a sudden, I went, 'Is that me?'" It was ... Katt Williams, playing a church choir leader who minces everything but his words, inhabits a state somewhere between opium torpor and five-latte high. The press notes for "First Sunday" refer to his character, Rickey, as "flamboyant" and "eccentric ... Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Two-year Treasury notes advanced to their highest in more than three years on speculation Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will indicate today the central bank plans to cut the benchmark interest rate this month. The ... ... gotten the memo , and shredded it. Even if this Linux PC doesn't become a mainstream hit, rivals are certainly taking notes. ... Be ambassadors of hope An old-school day for Nutter High Schools | A Terrible Burden ANC is the mouse that roared Teen in ... Jan. 10, 2008, 12:56AM NFL NOTES Chronicle News Services ... Terrell Owens still wasn't able to practice because of a high ankle sprain, continuing the drama of whether the Cowboys will ... ... after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's remarks suggested the central bank would lower interest rates further to forestall a recession. The price on two-year notes , which are highly sensitive to changing views on the Fed, reached a session high ... In testimony at the High Court, the therapist, Simone Simmons, also said that she had been shown "derogatory" and "cruel" letters written to Diana by the Duke of Edinburgh. The inquest is examing the accusations of Mohamed al Fayed, whose sone Dodi ... And once again, the sound mix in the Wang Theatre is inexcusably bad, so high notes turn to shrieks and low notes sound like mush. Fans of "Rent" should stay home and listen to the original cast recording, rather than witness this poor excuse for a ... The first, a 1964 recital of Rossini arias, reduced a youth to laughter when florid runs were capped by hideous, wildly wobbling high notes. "This is the Callas everyone raves about?" I wondered. Nonetheless, Callas' iconic status impelled another try ...
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