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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Album: Karen Carpenter
FILMMAKER Todd Haynes says moviegoers should approach his film I'm Not There , "like a piece of music" as six actors portray Bob Dylan. Haynes, whose film career began in 1987 with a short film about late pop singer Karen Carpenter and whose features ... The Carpenter Center, which is named after Richard and Karen Carpenter of musical group the Carpenters, opened in 1994 on the Cal State Long Beach campus. It was not until Lesnik became its executive director three years later that it began operating ... The Karen Carpenter Story"] " Juno " (Dir. Jason Reitman) Last year, "Thank You for Smoking" was on my top ten list. This year, Reitman's sophomore feature makes the cut. [Reitman's many shorts are easily found online] " Once " (Dir. John Carney ... A thought that begs for an anecdotal lead-in. "So, I'm shopping for a toilet paper dispenser at Lowe's a few days before Christmas -- definitely NOT for a gift beneath the tree -- and my brain tunes in to the voice of Karen Carpenter singing what has ... JONESBORO — Karen Trout of Piggott is glad she waited until the day after Christmas to buy a DVD player based on the ... Carol Carpenter of Petty’s Hallmark Cards & Gifts said business was pretty brisk. A lot of shoppers were taking advantage of ... As a young man, he enjoyed carpentry, and often helped his father, who was a self-employed carpenter. He built rooms onto the ... Survivors include his wife, Karen Ann Goetz Combs; a son, Tyler Combs of Fort Thomas; and his mother, Freda Peters of ... Karen Kiser, 17, a junior at Whitesboro High School who co-chairs a committee for DASH (Drugs, Alcohol and Student Health ... Stephanie Williams and Lexi Carpenter and I were the people who really planned it. Stephanie is co-chair of the DASH committee ... ... now, I wouldn’t have worked so hard to get rid of the crackheads and the crack whores,” said the carpenter, who gave only his first name, Jon, because he did not want to involve himself in the neighborhood controversy. The owner of 68 Jay, Karen ... We’re like a support group,” said 75-year-old Barbara Carpenter. “We’ve stuck together.” Shirley Kamrowski, 73, has ... Her sister, Karen Burt, is the youngster of the bunch at 58. “She’s our baby — our working girl,” Miller said. Burt ... ... Jr. and his wife, Judy, of Franklin, and Gary McDowell and his wife, Karen, of Woodruff, S.C.; nine grandchildren, Leanne Rodd of Boston, Mass., Jennifer Prevo of Boston, Amanda Davis of Atlanta, Ga., Benjamin Davis of Atlanta, Shelley Carpenter of ...
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