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: Instrumentals
Daniel Pemberton is the composer behind over 150 of the themes on TV, including Hell's Kitchen, Peep Show and Bad Lads Army. His new album is a celebration of this oft-overlooked art and features reworked instrumentals from his countless shows. It is ... Performing as a seven-piece band, which included members of Kaada's group Coloroform, the concert was shot in black and white, accentuating the moody, film-noir-influenced instrumentals. A dapper-looking Patton adds Bungle-like vocal sounds, and on ... If you only ever buy one album by an Ethiopian nun, make sure it's this celestial array of self-penned piano instrumentals: the missing evolutionary link between Erik Satie and Brian Eno. Various Artists - American Primitive Vol II (2005) From ... I think the credit would go to the otherwise-nameless Barron of “Mixed and mastered by Barron at Awakening Studios.” The balance between voice and instrumentals is perfect, the instruments are richly textured and well defined; it’s an absolute ... Jason knew which songs he wanted instrumentals of. He just sort of turned off the lights and ate some cookies and acted silly and told me to play them as gloomily and emotionally as I could. And I'm sitting here trying to get into this particular ... In the world of Jewish-themed music, he has produced for dos-pop stars Lev Tahor, and he composed soundtrack instrumentals for many of Rabbi Berel Wein's history education DVDs. With his solo debut, Kaplan nods to Woody Guthrie as well as 80s pop ... Perhaps with some instrumentals the refrain could be repeated over and over and over and faded out? But “CRY FOR HELP” is a work in progress. “Tormented, terrified and mentally ill,” writes the Sun. “SUICIDAL STAR ON BRINK.” She’s the new ... The Phonemes—a warm, cozy, pop-indie project led by the melodious songwriting skills of Magali Meagher and supported by the finespun instrumentals of Elizabeth Forsberg and Matias Rozenberg—can lay claim to such a process. “A phoneme is a ... Instrumentals are not everyone's cup of tea, but the quality of DHD's playing, including some wonderfully noisy yet intricate guitar lines, won over the Unity crowd. Possessed of an astonishingly good drummer, the band ran through a set of fantastic ... Some are terrific trio instrumentals, such as “You and the Night and the Music,” ”Five” and “Blue in Green,” while solo efforts “I Love My Wife” and “For Nenette” highlight Elias’ keyboard virtuosity. She delivers several vocal ...
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