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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Marc Bolan
... Garden Hard Rock Café, and a person with a familiar face came to see our performance,” Arai recalls. “When we were introduced, I discovered he was a very big artist manager called Simon Napier-Bell who handled Wham!, David Sylvain, Marc Bolan of ... I suddenly realized that those Beatles chords were the same ones that Marc Bolan used to write that song! It was also the first time I actually learned how to play a song from beginning to end. It was a moment of pride because I realized how easy it ... ... featured (though curiously Robert Christgau and Greil Marcus are absent), and there's much insight to be gleaned from their unrestrained essaying about subjects both seminal (Pink Floyd, Sex Pistols, the Clash, New York Dolls) and cultish (Marc Bolan ... Another Haynes film that you can and should seek out on DVD is "Velvet Goldmine," a highly sensual, trippy and musically spot-on appraisal of the glammy glitter-rock era of David Bowie, Marc Bolan, the Rolling Stones and that ilk, though all the ... After all, airplanes took out Buddy Holly , Ritchie Valens , Rick Nelson and several members of Lynyrd Skynyrd . Duane Allman and his Allman Brothers Band cohort, Berry Oakley , both died in motorcycle accidents. Marc Bolan and Eddie Cochran were killed in ... While it’s not shocking to see the rootsy band tackle such certified countrified classics as Roger Miller’s “Engine Engine #9” and Don Gibson’s “Oh Lonesome Me,” it’s a bit more surprising to hear them reinterpret Marc Bolan’s ... Hooking up with his old friend Marc Bolan, he began miming at some of Bolan's T. Rex concerts, eventually touring with Bolan, bassist/producer Tony Visconti, guitarist Mick Ronson, and drummer Cambridge as Hype. The band quickly fell apart, yet Bowie ... Ms Jones later became Marc Bolan's girlfriend. Tragically, it was she who was driving the car that killed her partner in 1977. Tainted love indeed. Four years later, another androgynous boy who spelled Mark 'Marc' took a stripped down ... Many icons of music and movies die young Jim Morrison, Marc Bolan, Jimi Hendrix and James Dean. But Joy Division’s front man Ian Curtis didn't die in a tragic accident like the many before him he took his own life at the tender age of twenty three ... Manson has struck back with a brilliant cover version of [a][/a]'s cover version of Marc Bolan's wife's Northern Soul classic. And a video in which the wonky contact-lensed Master Of Misanthropy frolics with lasses wearing suspenders and giant rabbit ...
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