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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Luciano Pavarotti
We said goodbye in 2007 to authors Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and David Halberstam -- three men whose writings were shaped by war and found eager audiences in the Vietnam era. The music world lost Beverly Sills and Luciano Pavarotti, who both ... Ike Turner and Luciano Pavarotti passed on, the latter's death inspiring all manner of jokes. But what did the experts think, the ones who actually play the music? We asked Brisbane's radio DJs to give us their take on the year that was. Michelle from ... It is possible, however, to observe that two performers who died in 2007 managed to transcend the traditional boundaries between art and entertainment like no others: opera's beloved Italian tenor and American soprano, Luciano Pavarotti and Beverly ... ... get arrested Vaucluse $29m house TV star Chris Lilley Clothes off, cash in The inspiring Jane McGrath Famous Aussie expats From school boy to terrorist Naomi Robson Rugby World Cup Hotties The Veronicas' twins World's top moustaches Farewell Luciano Pavarotti ... Death also claimed three singers who enjoyed important associations with Lyric: tenor Luciano Pavarotti, blessed with the most beautiful voice the world may ever hear; Jerry Hadley, the Illinois-born tenor who sang 11 leading roles with the ... Famed tenor Luciano Pavarotti dies. Sept. 7: Osama bin Laden appears in a video for the first time in three years, telling Americans they should convert to Islam if they want the war in Iraq to end. Sept. 7: A husband and wife are acquitted of ... The music world mourned Beverly Sills and Luciano Pavarotti, who appealed to the masses as well as opera buffs; the great classical cellist Mstislav Rostropovich; drummer Max Roach and pianist Oscar Peterson, hailed as geniuses by fellow jazzmen; and ... Luciano Pavarotti’s triumphant 1986 appearance in Beijing heads up this tribute to the late opera star. Performing some of his favourite arias, he also sings a set of Italian songs, including O Sole Mio, the song that would be one of the defining ... ... 1938-2007 Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007 Norman Mailer 1923-2007 Marcel Marceau 1923-2007 Tammy Faye Messner 1942-2007 Luciano Pavarotti 1935 ... He said the theater was his faithful wife, the movies his alluring mistress. His day job was as Sweden's top stage ... Luciano Pavarotti, famed for his ebullient performances of Nessun Dorma and other opera classics, died of cancer at his home in Modena, Italy. He was 71. Anita Roddick, Body Shop entrepreneur and ethical consumer champion, died of a brain haemorrhage ...
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