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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Machine Drum
... as a hobo hopping freight trains and worked in a number of low-skilled jobs before beginning a career as a professional musician. He plays adapted instruments, including a three-stringed guitar and what he refers to as a 'Mississippi Drum Machine ... BOY EATS UP MUSICALITY -- The name Boy Eats Drum Machine conjures up images of a young lad literally absorbing all of the beats and tricks of a rhythm machine, or challenging and vanquishing one in a drum contest. If Jon Ragel had his way, that would ... ... Theatre in Pittsfield, Mass., near his home, Taylor begins his performance alone on acoustic guitar and later is sensitively accompanied by jazz keyboard player Larry Goldings, and on two songs by a custom-made, Rube Goldberg-like drum machine. ... I was a DJ in the mid 90s, I got my first drum machine in '98 and I been making beats every since. So are you officially down with Terror Squad? I been down with TS since 2002, I signed with TS in 2003.I'm no longer under contract with them but that ... I took the chords from a Mario hit, fired up the drum machine and synth pads, and wrote "This is the Way". When it came time for Weezer to vote on songs to record for the album, I submitted both "Daydreamer" and "This is the Way" but I secretly ... I took the chords from a Mario hit, fired up the drum machine and synth pads, and wrote "This is the Way". When it came time for Weezer to vote on songs to record for the album, I submitted both "Daydreamer" and "This is the Way" but I secretly ... And it certainly doesn’t hurt that there is the beat of the Big Easy, laid down by Stanton Moore, who does things a drum machine could never imagine. New Orleans groove group Galactic enlisted two handfuls of MCs and DJs from the positive, poetic ... Tie: “This Is It,” Jack Ingram (Big Machine Records); “Bring It On,” Kevin Fowler (Equity Music Group): Two ... Meanwhile, Fowler kicks up his rock side and puts the drum pedal to his honky-tonk mettle. 9. Tie: “A Place To ... Is Gen. Petraeus Killing Kos ? Even though there's a big election on, Daily Kos traffic peaked in August, and has been trending down ever since, according to this forthright Onemadson post (noted by Geraghty and Instapundit ). ... Hmm. I don't think ... It is (drum roll, maestro) the first negative ad of the Democratic campaign season. (In fairness, it is much tamer than the stuff that Mitt Romney has been hurling at Huckabee). Here is the link provided by the Richardson campaign. The spot begins ...
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