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: Irish Album
One in particular, Irish singer Carly Hennessy, has an impressive music resume. Her album can be bought online or at record stores. Hennessy, now 24 and set to appear on upcoming "Idol" shows, released "Ultimate High" in 2001, and despite a more ... Responsible for what some regard as the greatest Irish album cover of all time (2004's 'Go Forth and Amplify' - it deserves to be a stamp), Large Mound's love of a laugh should never obscure their talents as songwriters. Taking its title from the ... U2's 1987 creative and commercial burst won the Grammy for album of the year and sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, establishing the Irish foursome as the band to beat and spawning classics "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For ... The Girls Aloud stunner (22) said she briefly dated the Sinn Fein politician's son when she was much younger. And she also revealed that she hates being called a "Brit" and insisted on the Irish tricolour being included on an album cover. In a ... I can't wait to hear songs from her new album &mdash "Jukebox," dropping Tuesday — at the show. Only two songs on the disc ... Emily Sweeney is a lifelong Bostonian who goes out all over, from Irish pubs in Southie to the roller rink in Dorchester. Coyle also said she hates it when people call her a "Brit", insisting on the Irish tricolour being included on album covers alongside the Union Jack. In a revealing interview with Hot Press magazine, Nadine said: "I didn't know Martin McGuinness ... ... comprehend the origins of this week's world premiere in Calgary of a ballet based on Mike Oldfield's 1973 instrumental album ... So he starts out with a minimalist pattern, then he goes into something totally different: a Celtic or Irish melody. And then ... Maybe it’s the dark and foggy Scottish moors or the wailing banshees that haunt lonely Irish keeps, but there’s nothing ... Instead, there was nothing but sheer delight, enthusiasm and joy on the entire album, from the jaunty “Aussie Stevie,” to ... Singer Heidi Talbot talks to us about her new album, angels and Shane MacGowan… By Shelley Marsden - 15/01/08 Heidi Talbot has been the lead singer of Irish-American trad group Cherish The Ladies for over 5 years. Pretty and softly-spoken, she is ... ... arguably Ireland’s biggest band right now, Paul Noonan and Dave Geraghty can’t anonymously knock back a pint at an Irish ... The quintet is releasing its first album on this side of the pond in February and will follow it with a club tour including ...
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