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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Ian Gillan Band
... progressive tradition, but it also brims with all the tried and true elements that fans have come to expect from the group, including the scale-dancing screams of Ian Gillan and enough guitar overdrive to melt speakers — as it should be for a band ... ... Goodwin sang in a gruff growl punctuated by wails that would have done Deep Purple's resident air-raid siren, Ian Gillan, proud. ... It wouldn't have been unusual for the underground metal audience to have turned up its collective nose at a band so rooted ... Earlier this year, Jo signed a deal with Immergent Records, an L.A.-based independent label that has released albums by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, Les Paul, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band and the Escovito family (Sheila E). It's the label's first ... ... Ian Gillan and Paul Rodgers, as well as every church-shaking gospel singer on the planet. During the stop on a fresh leg of his first solo tour since 2000, a tour to promote the new adult-contemporary rock album Carry On , he and a four-piece band of ... Don’t forget Ian Gillan and Tony Martin fronted the band, too. DOOBIE BROTHERS: With Tom Johnston singing lead, the band played rock ‘n’ roll that attracted folks like Hells Angels. When Michael McDonald replaced Johnston, the Doobies started ... ... progressive tradition, but it also brims with all the tried and true elements that fans have come to expect from the group, including the scale-dancing screams of Ian Gillan and enough guitar overdrive to melt speakers — as it should be for a band ... ... refreshing, actually, because we could actually see what was happening before us there and then because that was the band ... With Glenn and I, we can pick from the Ozzy catalog and Dio and Tony Martin or even Ian Gillan, anything. I think that we can ... ... solo career opportunity presented itself, Wylde leapt in headfirst, spinning off the brilliant southern-rock tinged band ... With performances by Deep Purple members including Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, David Coverdale, Jon Lord and Glenn Hughes ... Simon Robinson is researching the history of the rock band whose hits include Smoke on the Water. He said: "In 1969 pop ... After the show he offered the singer and bassist, Ian Gillan and Roger Glover, a job in Deep Purple, and within days the most ... Members of the band changed several times since then, and in Sofia will arrive Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan, Steve Morse, Don Airey. Deep Purple are considered pioneers of heavy metal and hard rock, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. ...
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