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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Kanye West
Donda West, mother of hip-hop star Kanye West 15. Televangelist and Moral Majority founder the Rev. Jerry Falwell 16. Jeffrey Alarie of Harrisburg, Pa., a 15-year-old whose family has written in his Guest Book every day since his ... Def Jam released two top-selling albums from Kanye West . The rap act Young Jeezy enjoyed a smash debut but a modest follow-up album, and sales of rappers such as Freeway and Beanie Sigel have been slow. On the pop side, Jay-Z is credited with ... Jay-Z, who is the man behind other best selling artists such as his protégé Rihanna and Kanye West, will reportedly be focusing on his other empires which including a 40/40 nightclub chain. Reports have suggested that the award winning performer is ... Kanye West: “The Good Life” On the surface, this is an overt attempt at a feel-good-anthem-of-the-year. “The Good Life” is superficially an anthem for all, but in reality West rallies the hungry with a familiar mantra: “Having money is ... July's "Live Earth" concert features musical artists from Kanye West to Madonna to highlight the threat posed by the earth's changing climate. And finally, Britain's royal family and royal watchers around the world mark the tenth anniversary of the ... If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I'll no longer write music," Mr. No Sense told SOHH.com. "I'll write music and work with my other artists, but I won't put out any more solo albums." Guess what? His album, Curtis, only ... The first to tempt Melburnians is US rapper Kanye West, who will star at a February dance festival. Bringing his thumping rhythms and tight rhymes, West will hope to revive memories of his 2006 gig, which lives on in hip-hop lovers' minds. ... Graduation" from Kanye West. Great beats and smart rhymes got it most of the way up the list, but the way he mixes joy and pain in his music brought it the rest. Matt O'Brien of Libertyville is executive director of the Metropolis Performing Arts ... Jay-Z, "American Gangster" (Roc-a-Fella) - It was a predictable year in hip-hop in which the bigwigs submitted the best - Kanye West, Common, Ghostface Killah, even a reactivated Wu-Tang Clan. But none topped the reigning (and formerly retired) chief ... Rapper Kanye West has put his Beverly Hills mansion on the market, suggesting he and bride-to-be Alexis Pfifer are looking to start married life in early 2008 in a new home. The "Gold Digger's" estate is offered for $8.7 million and features park ...
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