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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Kool and the Gang
You can imagine my big disappointment when the song was over, and the band launched into Kool and the Gang's "Celebrate." "I can't dance to this," I told my wife. "You never taught me how." She urged me to stay out there and try, but it was no use Kool & the Gang. $125. Doors 9:30 pm. 12/31 10:45 pm. Tropicana Casino & Resort S. Brighton Ave., Atlantic City; 609-340-4000. www.tropicana.net . Gladys Knight. $25-$100. 12/30 8 pm. 12/31 10:30 pm. Trump Marina Huron Ave. & Brigantine Blvd., Atlantic ... Drummer George «Funky» Brown of Kool and the Gang is 59. Guitarist Chris Stein of Blondie is 58. Actress Pamela Sue Martin (``The Poseidon Adventure,» «Dynasty») is 55. Actor Clancy Brown (``Highlander,» voice of Mr. Krabs on «SpongeBob ... He's been on Showtime, MTV, A&E and HBO, among others, as well as opening for Marsha Warfield, Redd Foxx, Patti LaBelle and Kool and the Gang. Reedy is quite the renaissance man when it comes to his comedy and has a unique observation of the world ... Kool & the Gang will put on a show at the Seneca Niagara Casino on Saturday and Sunday, with performances at 6 and 8 p.m. each night (Sunday’s shows are sold out). They are, of course, famous for such hits as “Jungle Boogie,” “Celebration ... Among the top acts that made Kuala Lumpur their stop were Kanye West, Gwen Stefani, The Black Eyed Peas, Good Charlotte, Il Divo, Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston, Kool & The Gang, James Morisson, My Chemical Romance, K-Ci & JoJo, James Ingram, the ... The much-anticipated (in certain circles, anyway) lawsuit by lobbyists to block the new campaign finance law scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1 and further limit, or ban outright, so-called “pay-to-play” contributions by those who do business ... Gone are the days when faded acts such as The O'Jays and Kool and the Gang were the biggest names on the circuit. Everyone from Elton John to Madonna has put in time at private gigs--for the right price. "Private gigs have always been there for ... Live Aid organizers Midge Ure and Bob Geldof began with famine relief in Africa in 1984, when they created the record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and shot the track as a video as well. The track, with help from Sting, Kool & the Gang, George ... Along with the cookie cutter mass market pop faire heard on the airwaves today one can still hear songs from previous eras. Among the bands who have returned after many years of absence are those who though older have never stopped making music, one ...
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