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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Kickback
The two have since parted ways and Cavallo was recently sentenced to jail in a kickback scheme involving bail bond agents. The sheriff relented and Hoffman did not attend. But friends and associates of the sheriff said the 2001 birthday bash -- midway ... He played a prominent role in both her administrations and won himself a reputation as Mr 10 Percent for a variety of imaginative kickback enterprises that led to still-ongoing money laundering proceedings in Switzerland and Spain. In 1999, Bhutto and ... Today, Amany Abu Khozeim, ERTU News Sector’s senior presenter, is under investigation for allegedly conspiring with Essmat Abou El-Maaly, the head of the Sixth of October Authority, in a kickback and bribery scandal. Prosecutors say the case will ... But her government was dissolved by the president in 1990 amid corruption claims, which Bhutto vehemently denied. Bhutto was re-elected in 1993, but three years later she was thrown out a second time by the president, this time on kickback and bribery ... ... is fairly well acquainted with this business) knew in advance at what point in the business process he would have to interact with the state and how, whether filling out forms, paying bribes, conducting negotiations on the size of the “kickback ... The two doctors' referrals of patients to HealthSouth facilities during that time violated the Medicare and Medicaid Anti-Kickback Statute and a provision of the Social Security Act governing physician self-referral, Justice Department documents ... That means they essentially give the recipe for the drug and their good graces to a generic drug company in exchange for a kickback of some kind. But it's a short-term deal and eventually -- depending on the blockbuster status of the name-brand drug ... Eve in the kickback case. Kocoras and St. Eve agreed to release Rezko on $1.4 million bail. Assistant U.S. Atty. Christopher Niewoehner had argued a decision on bail shouldn't only be made in the light of Rezko's return. Rezko could decide to flee ... A federal criminal investigation started after a hospital accused a Pharmed vice president of conducting a kickback scheme, and a major supplier has accused the company of collecting ''fraudulent rebates'' of $22 million. The company denied the ... Ron Ostlund, owner of Riviera Pools in Phoenix, has launched an advertising and Internet campaign to publicize what he describes as a "kickback scheme" between new home builders and several pool companies. Ostlund estimates that agreements between ...
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