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: Maja
We investigate each Big Idea by reaching out to myriad sources both within the industry and beyond. Our goal is to examine each topic from a host of perspectives and to place it in a context that's equally enlightening to insiders and casual readers ... So much ink has been spent on the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program, we often forget about the older, smaller domestic monitoring allowed under the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) . The FBI ... David Lammers looks at the high-tech scene and the personalities in the worldwide semiconductor industry from his vantage point in Austin, the heart of Texas. Get Wall Street's view of the silicon business from Eric Chen, a Stanford PhD and former ... LOS ANGELES — The booming solar power sector is about to get squeezed by the age-old laws of supply and demand. Solar energy companies are scrambling to ramp up production amid skyrocketing interest in renewable energy, but the pendulum is swinging ... BENGALURU, India — Intel Corp. researchers have identified five focus areas for 2008, including "platform-on-a-chip" development. Intel's corporate technology group, which includes about 1,000 researchers in 15 locations worldwide, including here ... MUNICH, Germany — The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Freiburg, Germany) claims it has achieved a record efficiency for its inverter designed for PV generators. Key to the high efficiency are Silicon Carbide (SiC) power transistors ... Maja Tibbling, lead enterprise architect at Con-way Inc. in San Mateo, Calif., says that unlike BAM tools, stream processing can measure what is not happening, which she says is just as important as knowing what is happening. The transportation ... Standing amidst all this spazzdom is Maja (a.k.a. H. Vincent Payne), who calmly sips a Japanese milk-based soft drink called Calpico as he looks through the store's selection of Asian candy. Then he takes an interest in a tall rack of anime ... Maria Springer of Maja's Viennese Kitchen, who teaches cooking classes in her home in Baltimore County, says some of her students are intimidated by baking. But she likes to both cook and bake. Here is one of her favorite dessert recipes. Linzer Torte ... June Lambia is curator of the exhibit, which features work by artists including Raymond Grubb, Nancy Pierce, Byron Baldwin, Mike Wirth, Marek Ranis and Maja Godlewska. The purpose of the collected works is to illumuniate the ...
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