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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Judy Garland
... bitter, though it was bitingly chilly. The stars hadn’t lost their glitter, either. And that was surprising, given that it was Los Angeles. But rain had cleared the smog, giving Rufus Wainwright a cool, starlit September night for his Judy Garland ... The CD for the movie, though, features Judy Garland (who was originally cast in the film but dismissed for personal reasons), and that's the score I chose to use. The show has some amazing numbers, and I've included 'The Girl That I Marry' and 'I've ... ... of American History showed a collection of artifacts from queer activist Frank Kameny , including buttons with Kameny's famous phrase, "Gay Is Good"; the items share a place beside Abraham Lincoln's top hat, Thomas Edison's light bulb and Judy Garland ... GENE KELLY, FRED ASTAIRE, Judy Garland, James Stewart, Clarke Gable, Spencer Tracy, the Marx Brothers, Lana Turner, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Cyd Charisse, and the list keeps going and going – all in hi-def? That’s amazing. The grand ... Hudgens is the milk-fed star of the films, and dates squeaky-freaking-clean costar Zac Efron (Right, like Judy Garland dated Mickey Rooney. Aren't we too smart for this kind of thing yet? Um, no ). But when nekkid photos of 19-year-old lass Hudgens ... THERE WERE BIG names, big headlines, big scandals and big sounds in 2007. A former pop starlet melted down in front of the world, an aging pop diva made a deal that shook the music industry to its core, and Judy Garland made an unusual post-mortem ... If you’ve never read Frank Baum’s children’s classic The Wizard of Oz or seen the movie starring a very young Judy Garland, you should not be reading this book (or my review). Because you really should read the book or watch the movie one day ... The Behring money also will support a new hall for popular culture, sports and entertainment exhibits that hold famous objects such as Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz and Kermit the Frog. Many of the changes will address a 2002 ... This year’s New Year’s Eve Pops moves to Hoyt Sherman Place, where the Des Moines Symphony will share the stage with Jeff Harnar and Shauna Hicks in a tribute to Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. This nostalgic performance features selections by ... Judy Alexander has an array of credits, including "The Regis Philben Road Show" and numerous performances with Connie Haynes, who performed regularly with Judy Garland. She has also performed with The Venice Symphony and the Leon Merian Orchestra ...
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