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: Instrumental Best Album
... The Covers Record,” Chan Marshall’s second go at a (mostly) covers album ... release of 2008 so far and promises to stand tall as one of the year’s best ... trance music — an uncanny mix of insistent drums, ethereal voices and an instrumental ... Along with his group, the Zydeco Experience, Simien has been nominated for a Grammy for best zydeco or Cajun album for “Live! Worldwide” this year. He was instrumental in leading a national effort to create a zydeco and Cajun music voting category ... ... Black Water, by Orcadian singer-guitarist Kris Drever, winner of the Horizon prize for best newcomer at the 2007 Radio 2 Folk Awards. Among the album ... The sparkling instrumental set Kilbowie Cottage highlights their signature balance of discipline and ... ... the title of the No. 1 artist on YouTube - all thanks to his most notable video, "Drifting," a three-minute instrumental ... With 3.69 million copies sold, Noel was the best-selling album of 2007. "I think there's been a void in what the music labels are ... ... takes four months' worth of top 40 hits and crams them together, the best ... said from his North Hill studio, where he is recording the new Beaten Awake album ... Kent is also represented by the ethereal instrumental band Six Parts Seven, whose cornet ... A track from the set, "Malignant Narcissism," is up for a Grammy Award in the "Best Rock Instrumental Performance" category. The album is Rush's first collection of new material since 2002's "Vapor Trails." The rockers are planning to release a live ... Buble at his bubbly best at Rexall ... Jones (from his latest album, Call Me Irresponsible) is utterly devoid of the ... piece brass section, piano, guitar and rhythm section - and adept at small instrumental ... The new album's track "Malignant Narcissism" has been nominated for a Grammy for best rock instrumental performance. Rush also plan to release a Snakes and Arrows Live album in the spring. In other Edmonton concert news, Vince Neil of Motley Crue fame ... ... decade as an exceptional arranger and composer eager to explore unusual instrumental ... Jazz Chamber Ensemble sextet, which is featured on "Lyric," his ravishing album ... wanted to do something different," says Sheppard, a well-traveled veteran best ... ... you suspect they would wholeheartedly approve, although Janis Joplin might feel second best to a ... song and music-making in the Uists are here presented in a locally recorded, wholly Gaelic album. A contemporary, eclectic repertoire of instrumental ...
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