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: Hindsight
The giant sucking sound you might have heard Friday morning was Kevin Garnett and most of the other principal players vacuuming the emotions, nostalgia and hindsight out of the Boston Celtics' scheduled clash in the evening with the Minnesota ... They use the phrase "in hindsight" constantly. They talk about the need to restore confidence. They sometimes point fingers at one another, while at the same time warning about the risk of heavy-handed regulation. It's about the closest we'll ... ... Instead, they must now face a debate in which many top cardiologists argue that their drugs should only be used as second-choice options--and a congressional committee that is questioning every step they took--with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. I didn't say it quite that way," she adds, "but I think in hindsight that's what I was feeling. So at 18, I took a year off." It has grown, in the lore into something like Lane's "Garbo period." "I just wanted to be near my mom and have a reconciling ... And in hindsight, you can see the explosion building from when the curtain rises in the first act on designer James Noone's homey kitchen and living room set. The minutiae of drab, daily living is depicted with remarkable fidelity, yet director ... Whether you love those teen dance movies or hate everything that’s predictable, you still might enjoy “How She Move.” In hindsight, I probably would have waited to catch this film on DVD. That way, I could have skipped to the best part – the ... The fears and concerns of a 16-year old are palpable on the pages but ultimately reveal themselves as nothing more than the rites of passage we all learn to recognize through our enerring hindsight. As a grown woman, what is most evident on ... In hindsight, it does not seem like a bad idea, but school, and later girls, got in the way. With this state of mind, I rarely went to the movies, except on an occasional date. If the truth were known, I now despised the movies for the popular ... A couple more years like this one, and the valuation of Potash and competitors Mosaic (NYSE: MOS ) and Agrium (NYSE: AGU ) won't look so steep in hindsight. Potash, for one, certainly sees value in the shares, having initiated a 5% buyback authorization ... Both are 1970s love stories of sorts, albeit with the advantage of hindsight for the new work, which allows it to operate as something of a period piece. Both pitch big political ideas against domestic dramas; both are peopled with idealists at odds ...
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