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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Joan Armatrading
Singer Joan Armatrading is 57. Actor Michael Dorn is 55. Actor John Malkovich is 54. Country singer Sylvia is 51. Singer/game show host Donny Osmond is 50. Rock musician Nick Seymour (Crowded House) is 49. Comedian Mario Cantone is 48. Actor Joe ... Joan Armatrading, "Willow: The Joan Armatrading Collection"; Echo & the Bunnymen, "Killing Moon: The Best of Echo & the Bunnymen"; Renee Zawawi, "L-E-G-E-N-D-S"; Happy Mondays, "Bummed: Collector's Edition"; Garrison Keillor, "Never Better: Stories ... Guy Clark's "Stuff That Works" is equally compelling, as is Madeleine Peyroux's jazzy swing with "I'm All Right" and Joan Armatrading's intimidating range on "A Woman in Love." Though Gomez and Calexico both supply impressively subdued moments with ... It's a nice collection, with songs from John Mayer , Modest Mouse, KT Tunstall , the Shins, Joan Armatrading, Jewel, Jonny Lang, Chris Thile and Jet. City spirit. Restaurants serving the big meal today include Chinook, 1515, Opus, Maggiano's and L ... I want to mention one regular priced double-CD that contains more great music than most boxes. “Joan Armatrading Gold.” It’s 43 songs from a fantastic singer/songwriter who lit up a lot of dorm rooms in the 1970s. Styles changed in the video ... Bryan Ferry and Joan Armatrading performed recently at the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland recently. Crystal Lil (Auckland) I guess it's horses for courses because I thought Bryan totally rocked! I was totally delighted that he did so many Roxy ... Like Joan Armatrading, we're 'dropping the pilot'. Our mission is to rediscover the joy of slow travel, to experience the transition of landscape, people, culture and language, to move through the world and not just over and above it. We've dumped ... After all it was, according to the Tempus Two website, a ``once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see two of England's musical legends [Joan Armatrading] with one of Australia's finest [Daryl Braithwaite], all on the same night in a wonderful evening of ... It's just been confirmed that Danny McCrum & Ben Jurisich will be opening for Bryan Ferry & Joan Armatrading at the Logan Campbell Centre on December 3rd & 4th. Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter Danny McCrum has been writing and performing since he was ... There are some rare bits and (band member and collaborator Brian) Eno's costumes alone are worth a look." * Bryan Ferry performs with special guest Joan Armatrading at Tempus Two, Hunter Valley on November 24, Sydney Entertainment Centre on November ...
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