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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Album: Like a River
SOMETIMES YOU face a big bet on the river, and you think you're beat. But you hope you're not, so you call, only to find out that you indeed were beat. In poker parlance, this is known as a "crying call," and while it might sound like an amateur move ... We had come to see the mighty Amazon, the legendary Amazon, the mysterious Amazon, the endangered Amazon. Not just a river, we would learn, but more like an entire region. Not just a river, Brazilians told us, but more like a water-based ecological ... The Value of Homes in These Cities and Towns Has Grown Like Nowhere Else ... In this small, dense neighborhood, just across the river from Boston, commercial fishing piers and industrial development ... The water you find near the end of a river system like the Colorado or the Mississippi (which feeds big cities like San Diego and New Orleans) has been in and out of municipal sewers several times. Whatever winds up in lakes and rivers used for ... ... out of its dirt-streaked van on an off day between Omaha and Chicago in the placid middle of the country: a city of 40,000 along the Mississippi River, where the tour manager had to walk 30 minutes to find a store selling cigarettes. "It's like a ... ... Easton 30, Georgesville Square 16, Lennox 24, Movies 16 Gahanna, Movie Tavern Mill Run, Pickerington 16, Polaris 18, River ... All-American war machine John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) doesn't seem like the kind of person who could have spent the first ... It is part of a trend where the interest in amateur boxing has moved away from more traditional hot beds in Vermont urban areas like Rutland, Barre and Burlington into smaller towns and villages nestled along the river that provides the border ... His team is young up the middle, younger still on the mound, but at least Mike Robins doesn’t feel like a youth baseball coach as he approaches his second season at St. Johns River Community College. “I equated last year to being a Little League ... ... trip ever to Queensland (and first flight) and we found the climate to be pretty tropical and unpredictable – a bit like ... The WB Kids Zone was the best on offer for our tribe – with the captivating Looney Tunes river ride and Splash Zone water ... It doesn't seem possible that a gung-ho, all-American war machine like John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) could have spent the ... Anyway, "Rambo" begins with its eponymous hero sullenly driving a long boat up and down the Salween River when a group of ...
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