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: Lucifer Songs
Prepare to shit yourself with fear kids because Marilyn Manson is inducing Lucifer himself on his ‘Rape The World’ tour. He says: “I’ve invited Kerry King, who’s become a good friend of mine, to come play on stage with us for a few songs ... Once there was a time when (pick one) punk/new wave/indie rock meant songs purged of anything suggesting proficiency, non ... to the secrets of steel through these bleak times when the masses supped on a flaccid bounty of "bizkit" and "korn." Lucifer ... ... the band drew the crowd in, inducing the involuntary head-bobbing and fist-pumping that classic AC/DC and Judas Priest songs ... John Cobbett, the founder of the long-running metal club Lucifer's Hammer and a principal member of ambitious conceptual ... Cano's creatures are made strictly from found objects, and viewers can witness, for example, a guitar-bodied Lucifer, a Strong Man made of foil and Chinese magicians fashioned from coffee pots. The delightful cast romps to songs such as If Those Lips ... Most of the songs still escalate into wild fits of guitar shredding and fuzzy electronic whirling at some point or another ... Lucifer's Memory" is a fluttering, gentle ramble of sweet howling, whiskey-soaked piano and quietly clambering drums that ... And many of the songs played Sunday, including "I Walked With a Zombie," Don't Shake Me Lucifer" and "Red Temple Prayer (Two-Headed Dog)" turn horror movie clichés into personal psychodrama. He has a few odd tics (including a habit of waving to the ... ... homosexuality - they are leavened with black humor and soundtracks which, more often than not, feature popular songs from ... remaining treasures from the K.A. vault get the DVD restoration they deserve - particularly his 1972 masterpiece “Lucifer ... ... is and isn't rock music is pondered further on the album itself, a set of dreamy ballads and thunderous rock songs so echo-laden you'd think they'd been created in cavernous, crumbling water towers (umm, some of them were). Take the track No Lucifer ... Stockhausen recalled how as a boy he heard marching songs played on the radio, an experience that left him with a hatred of ... myth, was begun in Kyoto in 1977, with a notation for the three "formulas" that attach to the three main characters - Lucifer ... ... summary execution passing under the venue’s low timbers, and songs both old and new are greeted as close friends. And rightly so, since the newbies actually provide some fine company for the old dead certs: the relentless upsurge of ‘ No Lucifer ...
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