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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Led Zeppelin

2007 was a year of duality for music. While the industry continued to tank, it was quietly a very good year for rock 'n' roll and indie music. The Boss returned with his old band, the Police actually got along and even Led Zeppelin reunited. The most ... Sitting surrounded by old Californian hippies as the band played a string of Led Zeppelin classics was thrilling. Since then, I've seen the Rolling Stones on a trip to San Diego, where I also heard that the Strokes - who were then selling out venues ... That's the big rumor in the music industry leading up to the classic-rock gods' performance Monday at a tribute concert in London and lead singer Robert Plant's recent comments advocating a full-scale reunion tour (which Rolling Stone already has ... Silverchair and Powderfinger combined for the concert tour de force of the year. Supergroup Led Zeppelin reformed for a one-off show that cost some concert-goers their kidney. Paris released a single and went to jail. Akon threw a kid into a crowd ... Music from Warner's artists, which include James Blunt, Madonna and Led Zeppelin, is currently available on iTunes - which enjoys a 70pc market share of digital music sales - although it is not DRM-free. This ensures that customers that purchase ... The only hotter ticket was Led Zeppelin's one-day blockbuster reunion this month in London, which elicited a staggering 1 million requests for the 20,000 tickets. Reunions ruled all year, with the Police, Van Halen, Genesis, Smashing Pumpkins and the ... ... school' was estimated at £300, sold for £205,000, and ended up being identified as likely to be a Titian worth many millions. There were interesting moments in the world of archeology, too, as the Spice Girls , Take That , Boyzone and Led Zeppelin ... From Tena Lee at Hendersonville Star News : Ronnie McCoury , son of bluegrass great Del McCoury and a musician in his father's band, spent Dec. 10 in an extremely enviable position: rubbing elbows with Led Zeppelin during the band's reunion concert ... We did, however, retain affection for some old things: the Spice Girls, Take That and Led Zeppelin all re-formed , to delirious sell-out crowds, and the final Harry Potter sold at a rate of 15 copies a second when stores in 90 countries opened at 00 ... Led Zeppelin was a good performer, along with crossover singers like Katherine Jenkins and Andrea Bocelli. Christmas showed that the demise of the CD has been greatly exaggerated.” With downloads of full albums failing to make up for the CD slump ...
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