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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Kajagoogoo
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- I had a combination "Ha, ha, serves you right/Wow, that's too bad" moment a few years ago when I heard that Chris Hamill (aka "Limahl"), former lead singer of '80s British band Kajagoogoo, was working at a London record store ... INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- I had a combination "Ha, ha, serves you right/Wow, that's too bad" moment a few years ago when I heard that Chris Hamill (aka "Limahl"), former lead singer of '80s British band Kajagoogoo, was working at a London record store ... Kajagoogoo -- If your name is a bunch of silly-sounding syllables strung together, you're in trouble. There's no way anyone would ever take your music seriously. 2. Uncle Kracker -- For me, this evokes Southern redneck good ol' boys living in ... Since the point of PBS fundraising music specials seems to be to separate 50- and 60-somethings from their money, are we to expect a near future of programs featuring gray-haired Duran Duran, Kajagoogoo and A Flock of Seagulls? But all good things ... ... to actually include as one of its components a cassette player, so I have a lot of dusty mix tapes left over from Youth, and these occasionally entertain me in their all-encompassing panorama of 80s bands like Talk Talk, the Icicle Works, Kajagoogoo ... Some of you may be tired of hearing me proselytize about radio. Tough. The fact is, I love radio and, in all likelihood, you like radio, too. Go on. Admit it. You have a favorite DJ from back in the day. When that Kajagoogoo song plays, you feel like ... Pretty damned catchy, what with the school kid unison vocals over the gripping, Kajagoogoo-style bass line. But if I tried to dance to it I’d break my knee. That's not Justice's fault, of course. Jay-Z — “Roc Boys” from the impending American ... Expect more nostalgia than story and lots of songs that hark back to Flock of Seagulls and Kajagoogoo. The cast is packed with familiar characters from the movie, including the woman who longs to be Madonna, the foulmouthed grandma, the giant ... A mix between Kajagoogoo and Black Lace, it sounds cheery enough until Martin draws our attention to the lyrics. We draw to a stop in the centre and get out of the car. "Slum 20" has got a reputation for being the kind of place that would swallow you ... ... past, with Adam Sandler's wedding singer and Drew Barrymore's waitress having to ditch - or be ditched by - unworthy partners before finding true love together. Features some of the catchiest tunes of the decade, from Culture Club to Kajagoogoo. Nacho ...
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