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: Inspiration
The sight of 140,000 foot-weary people washing through the cavernous halls of the Las Vegas convention centre, all desperate to find the next big idea in consumer electronics, is enough to inspire a mixture of awe and terror. A $600bn global industry ... Gordon Brown has met David Beckham at his southeast London football academy to view how it is working with potential future stars. The Prime Minister wants Beckham to inspire a generation of youngsters to play sport and adopt healthy lifestyles. Mr ... Rick Wilcox, one of New Hampshire's top mountaineers, said Hillary was an inspiration and remembers reading his books as a teenager. Wilcox, of Eaton, N.H., who was part of the first team from the Eastern United States to reach the Everest summit in ... Norgay became an adviser to the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute of India and an inspiration to generations of climbers. Though often sought by visitors, he lived quietly in a three-story villa with his wife and six children in Darjeeling, where he ... They draw inspiration from their Anglo elders Bowie, Morrissey, Jagger, but cater to modern demands of style and salesmanship. The best of the lot (if not the cleanest- and tightest-sounding) was the opener, SoCal's Louis XIV, whose swarthy come-ons ... Steve McClaren yesterday signalled his determination to re-launch his managerial career and prove his critics wrong following his ill-fated reign as England's head coach and is using Sven-Goran Eriksson as an inspiration. The former Middlesbrough ... This year, it will be very different indeed, for her concept is a highly contemporary garden, for which the main source of inspiration is the 16th-century Zen garden of rock and raked gravel at the temple of Ryoanji in Kyoto. A garden further removed ... The adjustment in defense also brings inspiration to their attack. After leveling the score 19-19 in 13 minute, Jiangsu launched a 8-1 run to restore the lead. "Our tactics worked well to restrict Beijing's attack. They are weak in long-range ... It's a sad day, as a fellow New Zealander, we all feel your loss today. Sir Ed... we grew with your inspiration, courage and humility. Your legacy is ingrained in us all, and will be kept alive and continued in this country. Thank you. 'Salute ... He loved Coach Mullis, who was his inspiration to get into coaching, and he loved his profession." In 2005, Flynn returned to college coaching at McDaniel, which last had a winning record in 1984-85 and last won 10 games in 1997-98. "He was really ...
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