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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John Prine
JOHN PRINE The Nashville songwriter recently released Standard Songs for Average People , a collection of amiable, easygoing, Dylanish folk-rock tunes he recorded with bluegrass singer Mac Wiseman. The club was a key launching pad for dozens of distinguished songwriters, including John Prine, Randy Newman, Cat Stevens, Kris Kristofferson and Jackson Browne, as well as Taylor and King. But no single show did more to cement the Troubadour's star ... Many smaller A-list bands (Wilco, Phil Lesh, John Prine) tour this route every year and would most certainly stop in Roanoke if the proper venue existed. The Reserve Ave. district will be an extension of downtown Roanoke in the next 5 years or so with ... I stopped to listen and then had to stand up when they played John Prine's " Angel From Montgomery ," a gorgeous song about a lonesome woman . For me, it was like unexpectedly smelling great food cooking somewhere. It triggered an entirely different ... jazzy, is that yours? if so it is the greatest wording of how i feel about this country and the way these so called patriots and christains have ruined our country i have seen. it also reminds me of john prine's song " your flag decal won't get you ... Our salads arrived just as a man began to plug in a guitar and start playing folk music -- Bob Dylan, John Prine, Tom Petty -- in the dining area. His performance was a pleasant surprise but did not seem to fit the mood the Gourmet Goat was going for ... The Songs of Stephen Foster," featuring 18 of his songs as performed by an impressive, if slightly unadventurous roster of artists including John Prine, Roger McGuinn, Alison Krauss and Raul Malo, is so welcome. One of the highlights is Mavis Staples ... Blow Up the TV, by John Prine) The battle for control over our childrens' lives is over, and unfortunately, we did not even come in a close second to television. You would think that after over 4,000 studies that carefully examined TV's effects on ... The concert featured Jackson Browne, Iris DeMent, Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, John Prine and others. An hour's worth of highlights are now available in a "Larger Than Life" DVD presented by Goodman's Al Bunetta Management and the Old ... JOHN PRINE: Charleston Municipal Auditorium. 8 p.m. Dec. 7. Tickets are $39.50-$49.50. Call Ticketmaster at 342-5757. GYMNASTICS: Olympic Gold Medalist Carly Patterson will visit Charleston Dec. 7-8 to co-host a USAG sanctioned women’s meet with ...
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