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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John Coltrane
Even at age 69, Tyner - the former cornerstone of the classic John Coltrane quartet - is a humbling artist to reckon with. And while Scott was a strong contributor on the songs he joined in on, this was a McCoy Tyner showcase, right from the roiling ... He came to prominence as the pianist in John Coltrane's early-'60s Classic Quartet. From the beginning of his career, Tyner blew everyone away with his technique. No one had played like him before. In terms of integrity, Tyner is the same pianist ... This year's festival, the 33rd annual, will also include a concert with Ravi Coltrane, the son of musician John Coltrane, and free performances as part of Campana Jazz Weekend. Marylin Palowitch, a parent and co-chair of this year's festival, said ... Joined by saxophonist Joe Lovano, Caramoor's jazz curator, Tyner effectively rekindles the spirit of the John Coltrane Quartet in which he played a pivotal role decades earlier. Lovano does a great deal of the heavy lifting, yet there's no mistaking ... John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman felt that the post-bebop small groups, already stripped down from the arranged excess of the Swing era, were still overly limited by sets of chord changes and turned to focus on impressionistic ... Members of the band cite influences as diverse as John Coltrane, Yehia Ghannam, Nirvana and traditional Turkish marches, but it comes together in what is most of all a celebration of Egypt. So what genre is it? “I don’t know,” Ousso says. “I ... Many drummers from the early days of jazz are dead — Max Roach, Art Blakey, Tony Williams and Elvin Jones, the drummer for the John Coltrane quartet, which catapulted Tyner to stardom. Gravatt says he misses the bebop sound and decries the recent ... Kind of Blue" also featured John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly and Bill Evans among others and has been the subject of at least one book and numerous doctoral dissertations. In rock and roll, for perfection in energy and overall sound, Billy Idol's ... Whitehurst , 5, remains in critical condition at Shands Jacksonville hospital with head trauma, and Jeremy Hayes , 7 has been released but has a broken leg, said John Coltrane , who set up the fund. Both Yulee boys were riding bikes about 1:30 p.m ... Acoustic Coffeehouse will feature music from the new jazz group 2nd Floor Katz Jazz Quintet, a four-piece from the Tri-Cities led by Matt Hall and influenced by such greats as John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock. Showtime is about 10:30 p.m. and ...
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