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: I Got Rhythm Vinyl
It was the first wholly electronic reggae recording, and its distinctive rhythm ... For years Jamaica has been the world's most prolific manufacturer of vinyl, with ... It's got to the point that when producers say that a song has been released in ... ... the group’s output about 10 years ago when someone handed me all of their vinyl ... on the drums. (At one point, he was asked, “Do you have any sense of rhythm at all ... I got into a very loud argument with a record store clerk in 1973, baffled that ... Electronic Arts has announced plans to release a version of Spore for the Apple Mac sometime this year. This is a creation by Will Wright, the maker of The Sims and SimCity. A sneak peek of the game is on the floor of the MacWorld Conference this ... He’s a mix of “just got to be me,” with his motorcycle and red shoes and ... So then, the former trombone player kept beating a rhythm on things at home ... and the wonderful smells there, and then walked out into the club of white-vinyl ... ... the group’s output about 10 years ago when someone handed me all of their vinyl ... on the drums. (At one point, he was asked, “Do you have any sense of rhythm at all ... I got into a very loud argument with a record store clerk in 1973, baffled that ... It was quite a mess, but we got through it, but then had to wait in another long ... Then Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings played and were joined by Albert Lee, the master ... As a child, I collected expensive vinyl bootleg recordings and fantasized about ... ... back into the original melody, the rhythm of ... He prices used vinyl and invariably sets aside a stack of the records that seem interesting to him. "I've been collecting since I was a teen-ager, but this particular collection got started when Rova put ... Microsoft noted a massive number in Xbox LIVE users over the holiday season that caused some outage problems, so Microsoft says "I'm sorry" with a free game. The holiday season of 2007 brought a massive amount of new Xbox LIVE users to the network ... Imagine if the music industry and the digital music services got together and ... for the iPod -- "Musicka," created by the developers of the original music rhythm ... It has gone from sprawling centre spreads adorning vinyl LPs to stamp-sized ... You know, the one where everyone got hammered and sang “Shout” by the Isley ... song has bombast damn it, guitar licks, pounding drums, the kind of swaying rhythm ... trademark stentorian vocals, and the greatest drum fill ever etched into vinyl ...
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