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: In My Mind
In 2000, Giuliani crowed about "real ideas that changed the way we did things" -- and lectured that without understanding them "there's no question in my mind that the city will go back to the way it was before" -- with high crime, jobs leaving ... As a result, I made up my mind then that I didn't want to be seen as a bitch anymore. So I've stopped. End of." Pause, two, three. "Now I confine my bitchy comments to my private life!" That life is a world away, says George, from what people might ... All of which leaves no doubt in my mind as to what actually happened last week in Portsmouth: A tired political warrior became emotional as her political life flashed before her eyes. And now it seems the campaign has learned to harness Clinton's ... My mind still harbours television images of great attacking moves involving Barry John, Gerald Davies, JPR Williams and especially the length-of-the field run by Gareth against the Scots which ended in the quagmire where no grass grew in the corner ... I have not made my mind up that I am leaving Motherwell. I am here to be persuaded." He has received widespread praise for Motherwell's performances this season and his leadership following the death of club captain Phil O'Donnell on 29 December. ... I certainly would not pay more for the very few good programmes that BBC1 show. If they were of the same calibre as "Cranford" I might change my mind. But reality shows - Strictly Come Dancing" and the many repeats do nothing to attract me. "The most important thing is to put the weather out of my mind," the guy says. "I don't care how cold or nasty it is, I treat it as I would any other game. It's all mental -- whether you let the elements get to you, or whether you ignore them and do ... In my mind I covered that (Nov. 30). We ask because of rumors they might be fired. (Answering rumors) would be inconsistent with the way I do things. And if I get on that treadmill, then I'm on it from that point every year. Do you regret calling on ... The thought crossed my mind looking at the list of players born in 1987. You could build a side that would threaten for the league title anywhere in the world. Imagine Giuseppe Rossi and Karim Benzema up front, with Samir Nasri and Lionel Messi providing ... This is about doing what I think is right as a person, in this case speaking my mind. "I have never known anyone to have more pride in their home state and their upbringing in it than Jessica Simpson has in Texas. That girl loves Texas more than you ...
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