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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Koko Taylor
Styles clash, and more artists go it alone James Blood Ulmer's take on Katrina tops our blues critic's list, and Chicago legend Koko Taylor makes the Top Ten Singers included Nicole Jamrose, Billy Shelton and the Mellow Moods, Walt Whitman and the Soul Children Choir. Blues legend KoKo Taylor also performed. "I truly enjoy performing for the children and being here to support them. This is what Christmas ... Through recordings and live performances - including working in Koko Taylor's band - Bell cemented his reputation as one of the finest young guitarists in Chicago. But by the mid-1990s his career was derailed by a combination of drug abuse ... Junior guard Koko Petitt is another potential scorer for the Grizzlies. "I don't think we need (Heater) to be that scorer ... Senior post Taylor Hagy, the leading scorer last season at around nine points per game, senior guard Jenna Schipman and junior ... Koko Taylor (best traditional blues album, “Old School”); Sones de Mexico Ensemble (best Mexican-American album, “Esta Tierra Es Tuya”) and Illinois Senator and presidential contender Barack Obama (best spoken word album, “The Audacity of ... Slated for tonight, the New Directional Players will perform a piece on Ma Rainey, an early blues singer who was known as “The Mother of the Blues.” Jahari will move to a new piece, “Wang Dang Doodle” by Koko Taylor, while the Voices of ... While she's shared the stage with other legends, including King, Koko Taylor and Buddy Guy, Copeland said she'd like to stretch herself by performing with many other artists. "I can tell you about a hundred people I'd like to work with," she said. In ... Junior Koko Petitt replaced McKinnis but was limited after recently having a bout with mononucleosis. Quickly after McKinnis ... Eagle Point was led by senior post Taylor Hagy and junior wing Erin Hedrick, who both finished with 10 points. EAGLE POINT (44 ... ... the Future is celebrated in the gymnasium at East Chicago Central High School. Feed the Future is a Christmas extravaganza for students in kindergarten through eighth grade and features such acts as CBS' Slumber Party Girls, blues legend KoKo Taylor ... Dec. 15 at the Koko Marina marina, assembling lighted and decorated boats. Entertainment starts at 4:30 p.m., including ... Directed by Pamela Taylor-Tongg. $25-$75; 877-750-4400, www.ticketmaster.com . $150 opening night special with buffet dinner ...
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