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: LOVE SONGS
Juliet March, lead vocalist of Stone Cell, is known in local music circles as "that angry rocker chick" who sings covers of Iron Maiden, Metallica and her own not-so-loving love songs. But for now, gone is her leather jacket, Hello Kitty T-shirt ... Mix the humor songs with some wonderful ballads and love songs and loud songs more attuned to rock and roll than country music, with Paisley's trademark guitar playing and penchant for being as close as possible to his fans, and it makes for a great ... Later, in a strictly dance section, she and Gehmacher offer the visual equivalent in an extended parody of cinematic love scenes -- to smatterings of soaring violins and references to pop love songs. They also listen to a sneakered young pop ... ... who sounds fine in his natural baritone range, barely squeezes out the tender upper notes of Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep . Moore, Shook, Baratelli and Broyhill pull off a delightful commingling of two counterpoint songs: You're Just in Love ... He steps forward here as a singer-songwriter with a full album of original songs, a mixed bag of contemporary hapa-haole songs ("My Hawaiian Moon" and "Sassy Hula Girl," to name two), instrumentals and earnest local pop love songs that express his ... Upshaw talks a lot about being attracted to music with sensuality or ecstasy -- a term she used for a French set that included two of Debussy's "Chansons de Bilitis" and two of the "Po¿mes pour Mi," Messiaen's love songs to his first wife. So it's ... He's released a three-disc romantic epic, "69 Love Songs" (1999), and a record called "i" (2004), on which eight of the 14 tracks began with the first-person pronoun. Since then, Merritt has assured us that not one of those songs was autobiographical ... As on their enchanting third record "Writer's Block," the now-bearded Swedish trio's roughly 90-minute set never got bogged down in one approach, flitting from breezy love songs ("Paris 2004") to child-like drone ("Amsterdam"), from cyclonic torrents ... Includes 40-minute DVD of live performances and interviews. • Al Jarreau , Love Songs (Rhino/Wea). • Louis XIV , Slick Dogs and Ponies (Atlantic). More primal rock from controversial San Diego band. • Shelby Lynne , Just a Little Lovin' (Lost Highway ... From satin-swathed soul majesty to covering Take That - 20 years is a long time in pop. Most of the songs in this strange selection are beyond (Barry White’s You’re the First . . .) or beneath ( A Million Love Songs, written by Gary Barlow) O ...
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