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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Janis Joplin
PORT ARTHUR — The 21st annual Gulf Coast Music Hall of Fame show, formerly known as the Janis Joplin Birthday Bash, is scheduled to take place Jan. 19, 2008, the legendary vocalist’s actual birthday. The concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Carl A ... Like her emerging peers Adele and Duffy, her deep soul timbre also belies her years. “We had a lot of Janis Joplin and Blondie playing in the house when we grew up,” she says. “So I just sang along. “Then later I got up on stage at a ... On this afternoon, in a workroom behind the set, miniature items included a tuxedo for a Game Show Bunny, pink glasses and hippie hair for a Janis Joplin-style Bunny, a myriad of little music instruments for the Bunny Band, and a pink lab jacket and ... Drawing on inspirations as diverse as Charles Bukowski and "The Honeymooners," this romantic adventure features songs that are anthems of our time--from James Brown, Janis Joplin, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, Bruce Springsteen, and more--which ... The young guitarist soon found himself jamming with Jimi Hendrix and being compared to Janis Joplin. Despite early success in the rock world, Winter remained true to the blues. In 1977, he teamed with Muddy Waters, whose own legendary star was in ... The stage production is based on the book "Love, Janis" – culled from the late singer's private letters and compiled by her sister Laura Joplin. Love, Janis features the title role split between a "Singing Janis" and a "Speaking Janis." For the Alley ... Richard Bell, 61 - Rock musician, who played with The Band and Janis Joplin, of multiple myeloma. Peter Liba, 67 - Former 22nd lieutenant-governor of Manitoba. William Hutt, 87 - Star of the Stratford Festival, widely considered one of the world's ... On this afternoon, in a work room behind the set, miniature items included a tuxedo for a Game Show Bunny, pink glasses and hippie hair for a Janis Joplin-style Bunny, a myriad of little music instruments for the Bunny Band, and a pink lab jacket and ... Canadian rock musician, who played with the Band and Janis Joplin. June 15. Antonio Aguilar, 88. Mariachi singer, actor during Mexican cinema's Golden Era. June 19. Liz Claiborne, 78. Designer whose styles became a cornerstone of career women's ... The sympathetic and attractive leads include Jim Sturgess (as a lad from Liverpool), Evan Rachel Wood (a radicalized suburban blond), Joe Anderson (a rich drop-out turned draftee) and Dana Fuchs and Martin Luther McCoy (as the Janis Joplin and Jimi ...
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