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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Leonard Cohen
Bon Jovi gave the crowd a rendition of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' and was then joined on stage by Southside Johnny to duet on 'Broke Down Piece of Man'. Southside Johnny gave the crowd a cover of Marvin Gaye's 'Can I Get A Witness' and then Gary US ... If the idea of Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval covering Leonard Cohen sounds appealing (in fact, Nadler covers Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" here), this disc is for you. Tulsa, "I Was Submerged" The latest EP by this loud and languid outfit led by doleful ... Now Leonard Cohen on the other hand... Your imminent ascension to the post of Chancellor suggests you were right to feather your own nest by supporting the decision to rain death and destruction on the people of Iraq, but is there ever a ... Alec Ounsworth has been listening to Leonard Cohen. He is not smiling. Headphones off, he settles at a table with only DiS for company; in the background, a speaker pumps Heart or Magic or some other middle-of-the-road FM station into the bar area of ... Ah we're drinking and we're dancing/And the band is really happening/And the Johnny Walker wisdom's running high," sings Leonard Cohen in "Closing Time." "All the women tear their blouses off/And the men they dance on the polka-dots/And it's ... Gordon White from Vancouver, Canada writes: I'd like to nominate British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell as Nation Builder of the Year. He's been the unparalleled leader of any government for the environment. From reaching out to Green Governor ... Harry Rasky, 78 - Oscar-nominated filmmaker, whose documentaries shone a light on the work of artists such as Marc Chagall, Leonard Cohen and Christopher Plummer. Stan Daniels, 72 - Award winning film producer, who won Emmys as co-creator and ... as bleak and beautiful as stylistic archetypes like grim-voiced poet Leonard Cohen and MOR gloom merchant Lee Hazlewood. Written under the spell of their twin influences, Bobo's second album is a work of much greater depth than his debut, Too Much ... Oscar-nominated Canadian filmmaker, whose documentaries shone a light on the work of such artists as Leonard Cohen and Christopher Plummer. April 9. Kurt Vonnegut, 84. Novelist who captured the absurdity of the world in darkly humorous works such as ... Jay Ray, "Live at Claremont" - The Wrightwood-based folk/rocker with a deep voice makes darkly enthralling tunes in the vein of Leonard Cohen and Grant Lee Phillips. This concert CD, recorded at The Press Restaurant, shows the allure. On the web: www ...
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