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: Inspired and Remixed
For example, industrial rock remixed on the decks in a truly humorous, faux-horror video? Sure, why not, and it works. So he ... With tastes both esoteric and populist (The Lawrence Welk Show first inspired Harrington to pick up the violin), Kronos ... For a stroll walker going at a pace of around 3 miles an hour, a remixed track has a count of 115 to 118 BPM; for a power ... taking an aerobics class several years ago where the teacher picked music whose tempo didn't match the moves, was inspired to ... The vision of The Pipettes was to be more of a hit machine with a specific formula inspired by the classic girl-group sound ... Gregg Wells, a guy who has produced albums for Lindsay Lohan and Rufus Wainwright, remixed the album for its American ... ... of b-sides and previously unreleased tracks from the Demon Days sessions, plus a second disc chocked-full of remixed Gorillaz ... Musically, the song is a combination of the Dylan-esque vocals with a tinge of reggae beats and folk-inspired guitar. While ... ... with either of those artists, but like them, she helped adorn soul music with new textures and flavors that inspired a whole ... Uptown tried to capitalize on the success of What's the 411? by issuing a remixed version of it a year later, but it was ... Equally inspired by Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Gang of Four, and the Cure, East London art-punkers Bloc Party mix angular ... Later that year, Silent Alarm Remixed capitalized on the band's burgeoning popularity, as did the 2006 EP Helicopter. A ... ... retirement that never really was, as hip-hop titan and Def Jam Records president Jay-Z returns with a concept album inspired ... One week later, on Nov. 20, a remixed and remastered version of the soundtrack from the concert film “The Song Remains the ... ... from the Dojo!! contains details about a brand new feature known as “My Music” in addition to a piece of Pokémon inspired ... Sakurai is promising that a massive selection of remixed and original tracks from a multitude of titles will be included. As ... ... and Mysterious D have molded this party into a showcase not only for fresh tracks, but also for new techniques inspired by ... Dre's Aftermath label) is touring with what she calls "Floetry Remixed" with New York rapper/MTV personality Amanda Diva ... Lest we forget, in seven chaotic years they were remixed by Erasure , employed Kirsty MacColl as a backing singer, turned ... John Cale , producer Martin Hannett and members of Talking Heads , hung out with Donovan and made three albums of inspired ...
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