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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Kristin Hersh
Women Artists Cover Neil Young (American Laundromat, February 5) is a two-disc charity project featuring the likes of TANYA DONELLY , KRISTIN HERSH , and JILL SOBULE . Later in February, look for ASHLEE SIMPSON ’s Color Outside the Lines (Geffen ... 50 Foot Wave opens tonight at the Garage in London, marking the return of Kristin Hersh back to the European rock stage with a blistering live act. Yet none of the popular centralized digital music distribution services have the six tracks from 50 ... Learn to Sing Like a Star," Kristin Hersh (Yep Roc) The Throwing Muses leader rocks out to the accompaniment of violin and cello, something that no one could have predicted based solely on such early Muses masterworks as 1988s "House Tornado," and ... The site is the braintrust of former Throwing Muses frontwoman Kristin Hersh and L7's Donita Sparks, along with Hersh's manager/husband Billy O'Connell, Sparks' manager Bob Fagen and other partners. An acronym for Coalition for Artists and Stake ... Portland's one-woman reverb fest Fall of Snow swoops into town to unfurl her ghostly resonance; think Boards of Canada remixing Kristin Hersh. Then Coppell trio Pet Hospital will close out the evening with clean, chugging guitar and drowsy vocals ... Still, patient readers, especially those who enjoyed the earlier book, and fans of Hilari Bell's "Farsala" trilogy (S & S) will find much to like in this character-driven epic fantasy.— Kristin Anderson, Columbus Metropolitan Library System, OH ... Most of Kristin Hersh 's post-Throwing Muses career has been spent making a series of indistinguishable solo records. Perhaps it was rediscovering the cathartic qualities of power chords with 50 Foot Wave, or simply a concerted effort to make ... As much as I would love to read articles on Tori Amos and PJ Harvey and Kristin Hersh, I'd also like to read articles on (insert names of all-male bands I also like). I don't think about what gender, colour or sexual orientation people are, and I ... ... to most gigs where new material struggles to hold its own with old hits, the most striking songs in her set were from the new album. “I Don’t Want You Now” had the carefree dash of The Undertones; “If Only” bore traces of Kristin Hersh ... There aren't many artists in the 21st century who will admit to genuine blinding flashes of inspiration. American singer-songwriter Kristin Hersh is one. "The songwriting process doesn't make a lot of sense," she says of her experience. "I liken it ...
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