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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K.D. Lang
WHILE SOME OF the other big lesbian names in music were resting up from their last offering (Indigo Girls) or gearing up for their next album (k.d. lang), Melissa Etheridge released “The Awakening,” her ninth studio album. This concept album was ... 15. She hates Christmas she said? Well I hate women that think they are men. I could care less how good she sings, she is warped..if thats her Mother next to her, all I have to say is "you poor thing". Shes got a big mouth and ought to shut it. Hates ... The music business is more alive and more interesting than ever," crooner k.d. lang enthuses as she prepares to unleash a genre-busting album in February. "I'm certainly more invigorated about music than I have been in many, many years ... A) k.d. lang's Andro Ale. B) Strathcona County Regional Whine. C) Thank God Peter Pocklington No Longer Lives Here Beer. D) Barney the Bear's Taser Lager. (Slogan: You'll pass out, guaranteed.) 9) The City of Edmonton is preparing a bid for a global event TAMPA - It was billed as a "pavilion-only" show by Lyle Lovett and k.d. lang at the Ford Amphitheater, a polite way of saying that there wouldn't be enough crowd to require opening the expansive lawn seating. Too bad, since a troublesome sound mix on ... It was billed as a "pavilion-only" show by Lyle Lovett and k.d. lang at the Ford Amphitheater, a polite way of saying that there wouldn't be enough crowd to require opening the expansive lawn seating. 'Member when Cindy Crawford dressed up as a greaser dude and posed with k.d. lang and it was...hot? We're thinkin' Brit might get away with a similar conceit if she rocks the King 's trademark pompadour. The lezzie rumors are already afloat Part of the CD's success, observers note, is due to the diverse array of guest artists, including Bono, the Dixie Chicks, Elton John, Stevie Wonder and k.d. lang. Such a line-up speaks to the eclecticism of the boomers. "You're really talking about ... This forced music appreciation turned me to Patsy Cline, k.d. lang and Reba McEntire. Although I am not an Elvis fan (she loved Elvis!), if you listen to Elvis sing gospel and you fall in love with his voice. People are rediscovering Tony Bennett and ... He was preceded in death by his parents, Toll and Azzie Lee Edwards Trotter; two brothers, Gene Husky and K. D. Trotter; and two sisters, Clara Jefferson and Mabel Johnson. Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Christine Jones Trotter; a daughter ...
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