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: Jazz Master
Experiments mixing jazz and European classical music already had a long, albeit mixed, track record by the time Billy Childs came of age. But the Los Angeles-based pianist and composer has put his own stamp on a field that blends jazz's ... Jazz master class: Dance Captain from "Wicked," Jeremy Duvall, will be giving a jazz master class from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The School of Performing Arts, Plainfield Campus, 13717 S. Route 30. The cost is $40. Call 630-717-6622 or visit www ... Jazz singer Kurt Elling giving a master class at the Jazz School in Berkeley. Another intimate space, getting to hear a master perform, talk about what music means to him and see him work with aspiring singers for two hours or more. The San Francisco ... And while the leader -- a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Fellowship recipient whose Web site is mccoytyner.com -- is not the dynamo he was back in the day, he comes pretty close. And that is taking into account not only the passing years ... Founded on the apprentice model, the Workshop offers students something that's often missing in university approaches to jazz instruction — the chance to work closely with master musicians, and for only $200 per six-week session. Scholarships are ... Portraits of the Golden Age of Jazz. Photographs by William P. Gottlieb. Eissey. To Oct. 14 -- Alterego. Artwork by the most ... Panamanian Master. Primordial and mythical landscapes and narratives by the 20th century painter. Boca. To Nov. 12 -- Karen ... He worked for several years in sales and management for the Argus Camera Co., then went back to school for a master's degree ... car large enough to carry his stand-up bass, which he played for many years with Roy Rubenstein & the Chicago Hot Six jazz ... Sunday Poll With this incarnation of the Jazz poised to infuriate Jerry Sloan by becoming the first Utah team in the ... manager of WLUK, a Fox affiliate in Green Bay, last week made it clear that he, not the Giants' quarterback, is the master of ... My style of art is kind of a hybrid, something like 'urban neo-realism,'" said Wirt, who graduated from the University of Florida with a master's in fine arts in sculpture in 1989. "I'm inspired by jazz music and hope to develop my brushwork and ... The camp is open to middle and high school students. UNCA music faculty and band and orchestra directors from the region’s middle and high schools will lead sessions on jazz improvisation, master classes, large and small ensembles, conducting and ...
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