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
Having almost crossed over to a mainstream audience with the encyclopaedic 69 Love Songs and follow-up I, Magnetic Fields mainman Stephin Merritt's taken a typically perverse decision to go back to his lo-fi roots. Sharing vocal duties with long-term ... ASHLAND — Country music star John Berry will be in concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9, at the Paramount Arts Center. Berry, whose latest single is called “A Woman Like You,” will be performing his greatest hits and classic love songs while celebrating ... Marsalis and 14 other musicians from Lincoln Center will present the love songs of Duke Ellington at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor. But Jackson says there will also be a number of original compositions from the orchestra members. "We travel with about ... ... of his wider fascination with form, leaving us with a somewhat arbitrary glaze of distortion that barely conceals Merritt’s usual dilettante’s approach to pop even while producing an enjoyable uniformity of sound which the likes of 69 Love Songs ... The soundtrack to a feel-good film about teenage pregnancy opens with "All I Want Is You," a silly love song by Barry Louis Polisar, who is known for writing children's books, poems and songs. It's an apt overture and a sly setup for what follows: a ... AEROSMITH frontman STEVEN TYLER is cashing in on the band's back catalogue, by selling the rights to a music marketing company. Tyler has written and co-written 160 songs, including Love in an Elevator and Dude Looks Like a Lady, worth an estimated ... I didn't used to write love songs, but I can't avoid it these days,'' Goss, 26, says of tracks that appear on his latest effort, Rise , released Jan. 8 and available at www.tomgossmusic.com . This time around, Goss swapped quantity with quality ... The President, who is a fan of Elvis Presley has a new girlfriend in Carla Bruni, the model who had a hit in 2005 with an album of breathy love songs. The President is under fire for paying too much attention to Ms Bruni. He was due to face a two ... In this issue, Blige reveals exclusively to Vibe the real feelings and stories behind some of her greatest love songs. The following are some outtakes: Blige Reflects on Herself: "I'm proud of Mary J. Blige and the progress she's made. Am I fine all ... Factory wanted to put into the boxed set “Doo Wop Love Songs.” Mars Arizona says “Hello Cruel World,” while Roomful of Blues is “Raisin’ a Ruckus” on Alligator Records. Van Hunt’s “Popular” and Elaine Elias’ “Something for You ...
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