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 Zorn
As brilliant as I imagined it to be. For those of you not in the know, John Zorn's Naked City produced some of the most influential hardcore/jazz/avant garde/thrash noise - without them, the likes of the Dillinger Escape Plan, the Locust and Tera ... ... be remembered not only for covering so many high-profile events - visits by Queen Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela, and Pope John ... New education leaders were hired at New England Conservatory (Tony Woodcock) and the Longy School of Music (Karen Zorn ... Composer John Harbison, a frequent guest conductor at Emmanuel, has now taken over as acting artistic director, providing ... Tony Woodcock and Karen Zorn, respectively. Woodcock comes most recently from the Minnesota Orchestra, where his tenure as ... Superstar singer Kid Rock and golf pro John Daly teamed up to benefit the Milan girls golf team after team members' clubs ... The Monroe County Board of Commissioners chose a Democrat (William Sisk) and Republican (Dale Zorn) to lead it in 2007. There ... Chicago Tribune metro columnist Eric Zorn's blog about the subject on Jan. 24 drew hundreds of replies. Hagel said the ... It should come as no surprise that one of the nations worst, horrific cannibals, John Wayne Gacy, lived, loved and ate some ... Allowing porn could subject an airline to harassment complaints much like an employer that refuses to clamp down, said John ... Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn called for “a media blackout — an agreement among responsible publications and ... John Zorn—composer, saxophonist, downtown impresario—has made an industry of his Masada songbooks, and who can blame him? In the early '90s, he wrote 100 tunes, each built around one of the two Jewish scales , and the Masada quartet that he formed ... ... this album also has its surprises with layered vocals ang guitars as well as the signature vocal sound for which Zorn is ... Coverage of John Frusciante (of The Red Hot Chili Peppers) & Ataxia (plus a few surprises) along with a feture on Mad TV ... ... musical director, performs regularly in the Rhythms of Art concert series. He typically composes original pieces that are inspired by the museum's exhibits. For this session, Nalbandian is scheduled to perform the music of American composer John Zorn ... He has recently released three critically acclaimed CDs on John Zorn’s Tzadik label— Diaspora Soul, Diaspora Blues (featuring the Sam Rivers trio), and his most recent, Diaspora Hollywood. His band Sex Mob, together since 1995, has toured the ...
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