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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Los Straitjackets
The Help Group Teddy Bear Ball 30th Anniversary Gala fundraiser in Los Angeles Dec. 3 raised more than $850,000 to support The Help Group’s schools and programs for children with special needs. More than 700 prominent entertainment industry ... In the '90s, there was an indie-rock mini-renaissance — Tortoise, Man or Astro-Man, and Los Straitjackets proved verbal expression to be unnecessary. The new century, however, belongs to Red Sparowes . Comprising members of Neurosis, Angel Hair ... If you like - or have even heard of - the Apples in Stereo, Los Straitjackets, the Legendary Shack Shakers or Minus 5, this CD is for you and makes a great gift for your friends. - Mary Huhn "Monster Ballads Xmas," various artists Set aside the hair ... This compilation CD features Christmas tunes with titles like "Your Christmas Whiskey" and "Holiday Twist," done by such artists as Los Straitjackets and The Apples in Stereo. Bootsy Collins, "Christmas is 4Ever." The funkmeister's album actually came ... Los Straitjackets, ' Tis the Season for Los Straitjackets (2002): The masked men of instrumental twang stick to their surf roots but also offer a Mexicali slant on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and a Ritchie Valens-style Feliz Navidad . 9. Booker T and ... In past years, the incognito surf instrumentalists Los Straitjackets have added Santa hats to their traditional wrestling masks. Hoboken noise-rock trio Yo La Tengo celebrates Hanukkah with eight straight nights of hometown shows, performing sets ... The TV news networks, which only a few months ago were piously suppressing emotional fireworks by their pundits, are now piously encouraging their news anchors to break out of the emotional straitjackets and express outrage. A Los Angeles Times ... ... the twin cuckoo hatchlings, with white makeup on his face, feathers in his hair and an outfit apparently inspired by straitjackets ... Despite the unusual aspects and the Seattle feel, LaBelle thinks Downtown Los Angeles audiences will appreciate DAE's ... Fresh Air from WHYY , November 22, 2007 - Celebrate Thanksgiving with rock 'n' roll hits from the 1950s and '60s — sung in Spanish. Rock en Espanol , from Big Sandy and Los Straitjackets, pays tribute to Mexican cover versions of American and ... ... stage the play in the round, project psychedelic lights around, a la the '60s, and to dress some of the audience in straitjackets ... Now it seems Kesey has been in Los Angeles and happens to call McClanahan, who is still teaching at Stanford, and says ...
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