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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Loreena McKennitt
These are my picks! Best: "Good King Wenceslas"(Loreena McKennitt's version), "The Little Drummer Boy" (Harry Simeone Chorale), "White Christmas" (Bing Crosby). Worst: Stevie Nicks's version of "Silent Night" (it's so wrong on so many levels). Any ... Not directly affiliated with Celtic music but similar in nature, Loreena McKennitt's "An Ancient Muse" (Quinlan Road/Verve/VG) and the Starlite Singers' "Irish Favorites" (Madacy Special Products/Madacy) also had successful years, coming in at ... Before my song is a video featuring an unusual and haunting version of the song by Loreena McKennitt . Invest, Ye Merry Businessmen Invest, ye merry businessmen, In healthcare industries! Remember these superior, Stock opportunities! To make a haul, it's ... Jennifer Grassman calls her original compositions "spiritual" and "feminine." It's a moody mix she likens to the work of Sarah McLahlan, Tori Amos and Loreena McKennitt. The Houston performer's 2006 disc, At the Back of the North Wind , showcased ... For an old classic, you can't beat Judy Garland doing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. For something written more recently, I like Loreena McKennitt's Snow. But there are a few that make me gag- several of us at work have decided Christmas ... Learning from the paths of Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco and Loreena McKennitt, Allison Crowe puts her own stamp of freedom on artistic and commercial success. She's grateful, too, for the opportunity to help support a range of worthy causes. This year ... Never Ending Road, from Loreena McKennitt Knoxville Trivia Blog: Knoxville's own Clark Griswold Brain's Blog: Are There Two Of Me? The World According to Oatney: Politics, schedules, and life Instapundit.com: MORE NON-PITY for ambitious young strivers ... The new site, http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/, is home to the Verve, Impulse!, Verve Forecast and GRP labels, and home to such artists as Brazilian Girls, John Coltrane, Jamie Cullum, Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, Queen Latifah, Loreena McKennitt ... PROVIDENCE — Loreena McKennitt is blessed with a force-of-nature voice that manages to be breathy and pin your ears back at the same time. There are a lot of potential pitfalls in the music of the Canadian singer of Celtic traditionals and ... Celtic singer Loreena McKennitt performs the final concert of her North American tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center, 220 Weybosset St., tonight at 8. Tickets are $29.50 to $72.50 at www.ticketmaster.com or (401) 331-2211. Fortress of ...
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