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 Masters
There are cats like Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny who are masters and have brought it up to date. And then there is another side of jazz — it's just that we don't call it jazz anymore. It might be hip-hop, or R&B, or neo-soul." ... But last Tuesday, as part of a continuing series at the hospital, there were the estimable guitarist Roni Ben-Hur and bassist Rufus Reid. The two jazz masters played such favorites as "Love Walked In," "Blues in the Night" and "Con Alma" to a variety ... National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters for 2008, including Jones, Cuban-born conga drummer Candido Camero, composer-arranger Tom McIntosh and trumpeter Joe Wilder -- all of whom were in the audience. The ceremony included a joint tribute to ... Friday's NEA Jazz Masters gala, in Constitution Hall at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, started things off with an appropriately respectful bit of ceremony. Peterson was one of seven musicians being inducted that evening, so things were kept ... "Everywhere I've been in in the past couple of years - and I've been everywhere -- young people have put aside their indigenous musics and adopted jazz and blues as their Esperanto," said Quincy Jones , most famous of the 2008 NEA Jazz Masters at the ... ... annual prize, the John Newbery medal for an outstanding contribution to children's literature, was awarded to Good Masters ... The first Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production was given to Live Oak Media for Jazz by Walter Dean Myers ... Canadian Council for the Arts Chair Karen Kain (left) presents Celine (centre) and Kelly Peterson with a lifetime achievement award for Mississauga's own Oscar Peterson at the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Awards Concert at the Metro ... ... Cultural Center; pushing into experimental music at the Velvet Lounge; improvising buoyantly at the first Hyde Park Jazz ... The influence of past Chicago masters such as Light Henry Huff, whose transcendently spiritual music she re-imagined in a ... Last year he toured with a jazz band, singing Sinatra songs. He’s serious about his singing too. “I want to have ... cards" that despite his poor lecture attendance record, he was able to win his Bachelors Degree in Agriculture and a Masters ... maxjive: Any chance we'll see a 10 song, Jazz Band, add on....? Great drum work, walkin' bass lines, vocal standards, and ... rights to the songs we use, and separate royalties on the recordings in those cases where we use the original masters. In some ...
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