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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Lostprophets
Lostprophets don’t even sing about Wales. Gojira : mental French eco-warrior motherf*ckers. The rest of Friday was taken up by Deftones being a bit crap – obviously they used up all their powers during their storming retro show at The Scala a ... Like bats and birds never bother me, but moths piss me off because they'll fly into your mouth and they wouldn't think twice about it." Lostprophets keyboardist Jamie Oliver reveals a strange phobia. "I get this from my press agent all the time: 'Shut ... LOSTPROPHETS keyboardist JAMIE OLIVER is considering giving up alcohol following an embarrassing booze-fuelled incident on an aircraft. The Welsh rocker admits drinking a bottle of Whiskey before collapsing in an aeroplane toilet. And Oliver says the ... She was straddling him in the corner." The pair were first linked in July after getting together at Scotland's T In The Park festival. However, 'T4' presenter Alexa laughed off the rumors as she was dating Lostprophets star Ian Watkins at the time Lostprophets, Astoria; Thur Feb 15 Shockwaves NME Awards Show: The Spinto Band, KOKO; Thur Feb 15 Shockwaves NME Awards Show: The ... NME DVD clip - from the DVD free with NME next week's issue - NME DVD clip - from the DVD free with NME next week's ... I have been on the stairs of the Kentish Town Forum with Chino when they played that wicked last minute gig with Lostprophets in 2001. That was great. He was so sweaty and kinda clambered over me, covering me in his sweat. Nasty. VERDICT? Dead ... Hopefully any differences are completely worked out because there are just a couple of days break after their headline tour before they travel the country again with Lostprophets. “I dunno how we’re gonna go down because it’s gonna be a ... They beat off competition from relative newcomers The Automatic as well as Lostprophets and Stereophonics. But they were unable to collect the award themselves as they had to head off for a gig as part of their UK tour, which arrives at Cardiff ... Eggsy: “Earlier in the year we had done The Pop Factory Awards and (famed XFM DJ) Eddie Temple Morris came down to present an award to Lostprophets. When he said ‘And the winner is ..’ we all started banging the table and shouting ‘Eddie ... Messages of support from actors Matthew Rhys and Jonathan Pryce and Welsh band The Lostprophets will be read out on the evening. As well as being a place of creative studies, the £35m five-storey facility stands as an architectural icon in the city. ...
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