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: Listening
On the bus ride over here, we were listening to all the guys on ESPN, and they said Carolina plays Duke in two weeks, and that's their first chance at a loss. They completely looked over us," Osby said. "People were counting us out, saying that we ... Winter activities go beyond the requisite skiing, ice-skating, sledding and snowmobiling, from a snowshoer listening to the quiet of a frozen waterfall or an ice-kiter gliding across a glassy lake to an ice-climber enduring a warm rush of ... I too am sick of listening to endless rhetoric and observing the waste of millions of dollars. The presidential election process began more than a year ago, will continue until November and will continue to be filled with lofty promises and negative ... If you see me singing in my car, it's because I'm listening to the soundtrack. Susan Yip San Francisco Cabaret Editor - Marilyn Levinson has brought the art of cabaret back to San Francisco. She produces four shows each year, featuring stars such as ... It must have been a merry Christmas for makers of iWhatevers, smart phones, pocket computers and assorted micro gaming devices. Two years ago, when I last flew to Key West, Fla., everyone was listening to their iPods, both at the airport and on the ... Rather than offering parental advice based on your hard-earned insights, initially listening will win greater receptivity. Creating awareness of and access to resources also will provide a positive, yet unobtrusive, means of support. Career ... Public speaking is a dynamic transaction "between one and many" — between the one who is speaking and the many who are listening. Public speaking is an art, a science and a skill that can be learned, improved and polished. Public speakers in the ... This is behavior I would not accept from my sixth-graders listening to a speaker, and I expected better of an adult from a state ripped apart by terrorist violence. Hillary needs to grow up." I noted at the time that adversity magnifies deep ... It's an example,'' he said, "of how when the federal Government falls down on the job and is listening more to the special interests than it is to ordinary families that we end up getting into these kinds of crises.'' As in Australia, too, the sub ... But this week is every bit as much about listening to how our advocates plan to adapt what they learn here and what they're up against, in a practical sense, in facing this tremendous challenge," said Komen President and CEO Hala Moddelmog. Twenty ...
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