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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Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey’s “Merry Christmas” was released in 1994 at the pre-“Mimi” height of her early fame and has gone on to become (don’t laugh!) a classic, in my opinion. Love her or hate her, has anything as joyous and infectious as her ... The stars in Aspen are cranky over a larger than ever contingent of paparazzi. Mariah Carey , unfazed by the cameras, spends most days shopping with her new puppy, while Jack Nicholson and Kurt Russell are avoiding town but have been spotted on the ski ... So, the past couple of Showdowns we've examined have been entirely theoretical, but today we actually have some life experience related to the matter at hand. We have long believed in the magical powers of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is ... Parents with teenagers have no excuse for getting their goth son a Mariah Carey album. Next time you scream "turn that racket down!" perhaps inquire as to the composer of the racket. Another colleague was left in no doubt as to the success of his ... ... for a Rocky Mountain high, Ivana Trump and Denise Rich will be hosting Aspen Peak magazine's party at the St. Regis Hotel. Out in Vegas, Avril Lavigne will party at Privé, while Mischa Barton will purr at the CatHouse. And cleavage-baring Mariah Carey ... Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was the top holiday track on Apple Inc.'s iTunes store last week, ranked at No. 11 overall by Nielsen SoundScan. It was also the third-most-popular mobile phone ring tone, according to Nielsen RingScan ... Mariah Carey’s “Merry Christmas” was released in 1994 at the pre-“Mimi” height of her early fame and has gone on to become (don’t laugh!) a classic, in my opinion. Love her or hate her, has anything as joyous and infectious as her ... How is it that Journey has endured a continual pop-music onslaught by the likes of Mariah Carey, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, yet still dwarfs most comers in terms of long-term fan adoration? According to group founder and guitarist Neal ... When we met up with the singer, she told us about what inspires her, how she deals with the paparazzi , whether she got star-struck when she met Mariah Carey and Justin Timberlake and what her mother would say if she ever posed nude! Did you always ... Singer Mariah Carey on sleeping in a sauna I had really bad dreams about being chased around and being stabbed to death with a quill by Jane Austen. Becoming Jane actress Anne Hathaway I hope if I come back, it’s in a good, healthy place. I don’t ...
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