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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Kiko
This year's list contrasts markedly to last year's, which saw three "good news stories" top the list, led by Princess Kiko giving birth to a son, Prince Hisahito. The Kanji character chosen by the Japan kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation for this year ... We performed all of our record "Kiko" in its entirety a little over a year ago. It was filmed for DVD with a documentary that goes along with it. It's a really, really cool package. It's finally going to be released in the spring. We're going to do ... ... recipient din siya ng ilang awards, like Most Outstanding Probee of the Year, kasama sa tatlong On-the-Spot Photographer of the Year matapos makuha ang first place sa ginanap na OTS sa Vietnam nu’ng August — ang isa sa mga naiuwing tropeo ni Kiko ... Spain’s Kiko Martinez needed less than one and a half minutes to conquer the highly rated Bernard Dunne in Dublin. September There was controversy in Colombia as home favourite Ricardo Torres held onto his WBO light-welterweight title with an ... PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - Officials in Panama are trying to keep a 12-year-old American girl alive in a makeshift shelter on the side of a volcano after the plane she was in crashed. She is said to be suffering hypothermia and multiple traumas ... Photographs of: the Phoenix Suns' Steve Nash on Slate 's home page by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images; Brent Barry, Steve Nash, and Manu Ginobili by L.M. Otero/AP. Photograph of Paul Shirley by Kiko Martin. 4 days ago - Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts took until midway through the fourth quarter before putting together ... 7 days ago - The Oakland Athletics signed pitcher Kiko Calero to a one-year contract Thursday. CoA extends special congrats to Shaun Mullen for two years of “Hits, Misses & Close But No Cigars” at Kiko’s House . ——–Postscript #2——– I can’t excuse missing this column earlier, but for whatever reason, I did: Ruth Marcus tries to ... She recorded only intermittently after 1969, made relatively few appearances, and the bulk of her catalogue is re-releases and compilations. But boy did she write! Please click here to read more at Kiko’s House . Previous appreciations have included ... ... which resulted in 406 murders. Meanwhile, New York City, with five times Philadelphia’s population and once America’s murder mecca, has had “only” 220 murders. Chicago and Los Angeles also lag far behind. Please click here to read more at Kiko ...
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