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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Kent
Police have shot and killed an armed man near Sevenoaks - the second time in six months armed officers in the Kent commuter town have taken a life. Officers were called to the village shortly before 8am Officers were called to Stansted village ... LONDON (Reuters) - The police watchdog has opened an inquiry into the fatal shooting of a man by police at a village near Sevenoaks. Officers had been called to Stansted in Kent early on Saturday after reports that a man was armed with a gun. A ... Eventually, Harris responded and later testified in an affidavit that he drove Creedon and another Selden man, Peter Kent, to the Tankleff home. In the affidavit, Harris said he waited in the car while Creedon and Kent walked up to the house. He said ... When I wrote my first piece about Bonds and race, "If Jeff Kent Were Black," I got private e-mails from several well-known African-American sportswriters and sportscasters, thanking me for pointing out the double standard in white writers savaging ... LOS ANGELES -- Fortune-seeker Nicolas Cage, lonely guy Will Smith and a pack of talking chipmunks ended Hollywood's year on a happy note. Cage's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" was the No. 1 movie for a second weekend with $35.6 million ... The Simpsons" has, and the 400th - "You Kent Always Say What You Want" - was a characteristically hilarious spoof on Fox, free speech, Kent Brockman (who got fired and rehired) and a whole bunch of other stuff. "The Simpsons Movie" came out a couple ... Abercrombie & Kent (www.abercrombiekent .com) is offering solo travelers $500 off most of its trips between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15 next year if booked by the end of January. And the Norwalk, Conn.,-based Tauck World Discovery (www.tauck.com) is ... People visited from far and wide to hear Young's choir, Wright and others said. "It was just wonderful," the Rev. Kent Poindexter said, tearing up. "Donald was a good friend. I like that it was a celebration of his life rather than about his death." ... Stephen Skelton, a vineyard consultant, said that he had toured Kent and Sussex with senior figures from Louis Roederer who had been impressed with the potential of the land for producing fine wine. He added: "They see it as a strong possibility for ... ... for men and 15-35 units for women - is where the leafier, pinot noirish parts of the country come in. In Runnymede, Harrogate, Surrey Heath and Guildford, more than one in four people are classed as “hazardous drinkers”. My train back to Kent ...
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