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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Jane Birkin
The woman is played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of British actress Jane Birkin and the late French vocalist, Serge Gainsbourg, whose supposed ugliness was the basis of his sex appeal. Charlotte (who was in Memphis in 2003, playing Sean Penn's ... Charlotte Gainsbourg's cool credentials are impeccable. Not only is she the daughter of legendary French pop musicians Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, but the 35-year-old has acted in films like Michel Gondry's "The Science of Sleep" and Alejandro ... A Hermès Birkin bag or a rose gold Cartier Roadster watch — I hope my husband reads this!” she laughed. Ramirez lives in ... I get to come up with ideas and write about what I love and then see our brilliant creative director, Jane McVey, put it all ... The handbags with the longest waiting lists, the Kelly bag, named after actress Grace Kelly, and the Birkin bag, named after actress Jane Birkin, each take up to 25 hours to make, and Hermès stores around the world wait for a chance to sell one of ... French singer Serge Gainsbourg and English model-actress Jane Birkin. Billy (Richard Gere) The name of a reclusive troubadour whose village is uprooted by a highway project is an apparent allusion to Sam Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," in ... In the current Harper's Bazaar, Jane Birkin is asked for recommendations to get us through December. She suggests a trip to the sewers and to think harder about Burma. The Amartya Sen of actresses is Angelina Jolie. Why the surprise that she has ... Bags sold only in stores * Birkin bag: Created in 1984 for actress Jane Birkin. The handstitched bags reportedly take as long as 25 hours to make in Hermes' Parisian workrooms, and wait lists are years long. * Kelly bag: A handbag renamed in 1956 for ... Rumor has it Gonzales recorded this sublime album (issued Stateside for the first time) during a difficult songwriting session with English pop legend Jane Birkin. That would explain the deep relaxation quality permeating every instrumental note ... Neil has since been incredibly busy: he has written songs for musical legends Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg, and even created the theme tune for Channel 4’s successful comedy series, The IT Crowd. The Divine Comedy have been previewing their ... She's probably best known as the daughter of singer Jane Birkin, for her stints as a Givenchy model and as the style icon who launched 1000 waistcoats. But fairly soon Lou Doillon, the one time "wild child" who is good buddies with the likes of Kate ...
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