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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Album: Lightness
He wrote as he spoke, with clarity, style and an enviable lightness of touch. There were a number of writing projects in train at the time of his death, including a book based on his Hague Academy lectures on the legal position of heads of states ... The sizes of the splashes left by the raindrops vary according to the lightness or heaviness of the downpour in question. The Zenlike simplicity of these works is reminiscent of some of Yoko Ono's early instruction pieces, like 1962's Smoke Painting ... ... on their own, the Perriers — who live just a short drive away from the restaurant — have fashioned a simple room with a whitewashed freshness, glowing cobalt accents and dropped, flyaway ceiling panels that confer a subtle sense of lightness and ... It adds a certain lightness. It's just fun. Having the extra keyboard and violin live expands us and takes things out of the four-piece rock 'n' roll band for a while." When asked if the band might consider expanding permanently, Hawkins says, "It ... I have thought Katherine Heigl was adorable since "My Father The Hero" way back when. She's kept that lovely lightness-of-being that she imparts each time she's on screen, whether it's TV or in a theater. So put her in a cute little comedy of ... Plus quickness, a lightness on his feet accentuated by the many hours he spent playing soccer in Brazil. The physique and style drew comparisons to Hakeem Olajuwon and Shawn Kemp . "It's very flattering and it's a lot of responsibility to be compared ... WHEN my friend Gary Danko made whole-grain pancakes for me a while ago, I and everyone else in our little brunch party could not get enough of them. They were impressive for their lightness but also for their deep flavor. (The fact that he served ... Other silicone cookware is slowly becoming accepted for its lightness, even cooking and crushable storability the pros value. "It's kind of foolproof," Pharr says. "We would make 150 to 200 mini banana breads, and they would all come out the same." ... For the first time in hours, maybe days, the lightness faded from his voice. Mr. Excitement sounded apprehensive. If that nervousness is still there Saturday, it's not likely most people will be able to tell. His weakness, in fact, is that "I can get ... It was 20 years ago that Juliette Binoche first captured men's hearts in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, going on to bring her brand of sexual tension to The English Patient, for which she won a 1996 Oscar. Today, at 43 years old, the French ...
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