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: Iva Bittova
Iva Bittova Freight and Salvage Coffee House. 8pm, $21.50. Ray Bonneville Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission, San Rafael; 8pm, $25. (415) 485-3328. Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra Yoshi's. 8 and 10pm, $22. Through Sun/4. DANCE CLUBS *Afrolicious Elbo Room ... Freight & Salvage -- The venerable folk venue has booked a trio of female artists this weekend, featuring fiddler and composer Iva Bittova (Nov. 1), the wonderful alt-country/neo-folkie singer Lucy Kaplansky (Nov. 2), and the electrifying singer ... Continuing concerts Earshot Jazz Festival 2007: Concerts continue tonight through Sunday night, including shows from McTuff on Wednesday at the Tractor Tavern, Eric Person Wednesday and Thursday at Tula's, and Iva Bittová Friday night at the Chapel ... Iva Bittova, fiddler and vocalist, at 8 p.m. at Freight and Salvage. Cost is $20.50-$21.50. 548-1761. Roberta Picket Trio at 8 p.m. at Anna’s Jazz Island. Cost is $10. 841-JAZZ. Whiskey Brothers, old-time and bluegrass at 9 p.m. at Albatross, 1822 ... Iva Bittová, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2, Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N.; $13-$15: A Czech Republic actor, vocalist and violinist, Bittová merges classical, rock and Eastern European music into a hybrid style she calls ... The final weekend of the Earshot Jazz Festival began with an intimate solo concert from violinist/singer Iva Bittová, a legend of the Eastern European avant-garde. She performed unamplified in the acoustically reverberant chapel at the Good Shepherd ... This past year has been a disappointing one for fans of Czech cinema. With the exception of Alice Nellis’ beautifully understated Tajnosti , with Iva Bittová’s warm, equally measured performance, there hasn’t been much to celebrate. It will likely sound familiar to anyone who’s been listening to Czech alternative music, as it draws on the combined talents of Brno-based musicians like Iva Bittová, Vladimír Václavek and band members from Quakvarteto, Kvety, Muziga, Hradištan ... ... of avant-garde guitarists, Fred Frith from the United Kingdom, best-known as a founder of the English art rock group Henry Cow. Frith has worked with Bill Laswell (in a trio called Massacre), Brian Eno and the Residents, as well as Iva Bittová ... The primary character, Julie (Iva Bittová), is a middle-aged woman who wakes in the middle of the night to take stock of her life. Her marriage to her husband (Karel Roden) has become mechanical — a relationship that, while still possessing ...
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