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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Lupe Fiasco
Lupe Fiasco's sophomore album, The Cool , debuts at the top spot of Billboard's 'Top Rap Albums Chart' this week. The Cool sold 144,000 copies in its opening week. Soulja Boy's debut album, Souljaboytellem.com , continues to keep registers ringing as ... LUPE FIASCO "The Cool" (Atlantic 3 { stars) Lupe Fiasco's "The Cool" figured to be a last-minute entry in the hip-hop album of the year sweepstakes, and sure enough, it comes in at the wire strong enough to contend with the 2007 efforts of Kanye West ... It was an eventful week on the charts for Hip-Hop and R&B with Alicia Keys continuing to prove that "No One" can keep her from breaking records, Mary J. Blige hitting the board at No. 2 and Lupe Fiasco and Chingy making noteworthy debuts. Alicia Keys ... Disney's "High School Musical 2" fell three to No. 9 with 185,000 copies, and Chris Brown rebounded two to No. 10 with sales of 176,000 copies for "Exclusive." Other debuted included Jaheim's "The Makings of a Man" at No. 11, Lupe Fiasco's "Lupe ... Other debuts this week include Jaheim's The Makings Of A Man , which debuts at no. 11 with 175,900 sold; at no. 15 with 143,400 sold is Lupe Fiasco's sophomore album, The Cool ; at no. 33 is Kirk Franklin's Fight Of My Life , which scanned more than 74 ... From the conscious hustle of Lupe Fiasco to the beautiful, slight voice of Feist, this year's batch was more diverse than ever. If you have these already, kick back and reminisce on the awesomeness of this year. If you don't, time to take out that ... LUPE FIASCO, 8 p.m. Jan. 13, Fillmore. $30. FINCH, 8 p.m. Jan. 13, Slim's. $16. CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED, 8 p.m. Jan. 15, Independent. $14. HURT, 8 p.m. Jan. 16, Slim's. $13. DAN DEACON/ULTIMATE REALITY, 8 p.m. Jan. 17, Great American Music Hall. $13. MOE ... Coming in at #15 with 143,400 sold is Lupe Fiasco 's new one, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, followed at #33 by Kirk Franklin 's Fight of My Life, which scanned more than 74,400 units. The soundtrack to director Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of ... Arcade Fire, Amy Winehouse, Lupe Fiasco and Arctic Monkeys, who all made the upper half of the list, did it with sophomore albums. (Though Winehouse's "Back To Black" was her U.S. debut, it actually followed an album called "Frank" that came out in ... I pray to God that 2008 is a better year than 2007 because 2 dead and 4 wounded on Christmas Day is a damn shame. May God Bless the city of New Orleans and every other place like it. Listen to Lupe Fiasco's "Little Weapon".
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