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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Kalyanji and Anandji
She has a god gifted voice and I would say this kid is a real star,' said Anandji Virji Shah of the popular music director duo of Kalyanji-Anandji fame. Anandji was in Guwahati to release the album of the little singing sensation. 'The fact that Bhupen ... Ramchandra, Salil Chaudhary, Kalyanji Anandji, O.P. Nayyar and others; relish the lyrics penned by Sahir Ludhianvi, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Hasrat ... She sang six songs for Kalyanji-Anandji's "Satta Bazaar". Then came Roshan, Khayyam, Madan Mohan and later Ravi, Laxmikant - Pyarelal, S.D. Burman and Rajesh Roshan. Suman remembers with gratitude music director Dattaram, long-time assistant to ... Dilip Kumar, Naushad and Mohammed Rafi put together— the list of their hit songs would be endless, but Dilip Kumar also had some evergreen songs composed by Shankar-Jaikishen, Salil Chowdhury and later Kalyanji Anandji, and sung by Mukesh and Talat ... But once Aradhana happened in 1969, he never looked back till he passed away in 1975, giving his son R D Burman and his generation of composers (Laxmikant-Pyarelal and Kalyanji-Anandji) tough competition at the charts with Prem Pujari, Sharmeelee ... Bollywood‘s legendary musician and composer Anandji of Kalyanji-Anandji fame appreciated the girl‘s talent while releasing her first music album. It consists of songs written and sung by Assamese music legend Bhupen Hazarika. Asthajit Ananda has ... Composer Anandji of Kalyanji-Anandji fame from Mumbai released the audio CD at a well-attended function in Guwahati on Wednesday (Oct.17). Anandji appreciated Aasthajitananda by saying that it was amazing that a child without any musical background ...
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