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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LeadBelly
... Hold On" (a cover magnet in the grand tradition), "Come On up to the House" (a natural for gospel out fits, who however will have to omit the line "Come down off the cross/We can use the wood"), and "Cold Water" (might have been dictated by Leadbelly ... collaboration with Plant during a Leadbelly tribute at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where she and the former Led Zeppelin vocalist sang together for the first time. She has frequently expressed her admiration for several rock singers, including ... 1921, Sugar Land: Huddie "Lead belly" Ledbetter, incarcerated for killing his cousin during a fight, pleads his case for early release to Texas Governor Pat Morris Neff. During the proceedings, Leadbelly performs — for no money — a clemency song ... I'd been exposed to my father's jazz collection, my older brother had a fleeting interest with the blues of Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) and, most significantly, I lived in a dormitory room next to another student, Geoff Muldaur, and listened ... ... covers that mined Nirvana's musical diversity and depth, from David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World" and The Vaselines' version of "Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam" to the trad folk "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" associated with Leadbelly ... Finally, in a tone both gracefully decisive and playfully puckish, he says, "Fuck you all, this is the last song of the evening," and launches into a gorgeous and gut-wrenching version of Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" Just before ... And since Thompson's big hit on "The Wild Side of Life" had spawned an answer song, he tried an answer song himself (with great success) with 1953's "Wake Up Irene," the response to Leadbelly's "Good Night Irene" (a country hit for Red Foley and ... Sunday was largely spent in my chalet listening to Leadbelly and Karen Dalton, feeling a but iffy. Managed to once again fail to get in to see the ‘Bolt, and missed Dungen for a second time. Band of Horses cancelled... come one, ATP! Thank God, then ... But the author’s well-researched tales of the naive misjudgment of dirt-poor black musicians (notably the convicted murderer Leadbelly) by their unintentionally exploitative white patrons make a gripping and often funny read. BESTSELLERS 1 Eric ... The idea for the project came after they sang together at a tribute concert for blues legend Leadbelly. Plant, 59, said:"When it was suggested there might be a possibility of teaming up with a singer like Alison Krauss, I thought it was an incredulous ...
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