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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Mark Farner
Front row, from left, Deb Farner and Nick Martinez. Middle, from left, the Rev. Buck Kidwell, Maureen Holmes, Wilma Westerby ... And a few celebrate with a party and gifts on the half-year mark, June 25. Karen Solis' son, Steven, a Tascosa sophomore ... Free -- how can you not appreciate Mark Farner's wild, shirtless lyrics, the bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher, and the competent drum work of Don Brewer. (to quote the great Homer J. Simpson) Now get off my lawn before I turn the hose on you. J ... The four experienced sommeliers who study together at Cut -- Mark Mendoza from Sona Restaurant, Cara Bertone with Water Grill, Paul Sherman of Valentino and Dana Farner with Cut -- range in age from their late 20s to early 50s and have each decided ... Ironic that the Grand Funk track on this list should be one neither written nor sung by Mark Farner. Nevertheless, this was the Flint-based band's first No. 1 single. Inspired when drummer Don Brewer argued with Humble Pie about American rock, Brewer ... Singer-guitarist Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad, 59 ... TV personality Bryant Gumbel, 59 ... Singer Suzzy Roche of the Roches, 51 ... Comedian Andrew "Dice" Clay, 50 ... Actress Jill Whelan ("Love Boat"), 41 ... Bassist Brad Smith of Blind Melon ... The parade will end at the Washington Monument grounds, where participants will find a reunion tent, an Agent Orange/Benefits information tent, and an all-star concert at the Sylvan Theater, featuring the Kingston Trio and Mark Farner of Grand Funk ... PETOSKEY -- Legend has it that Mark Farner prayed to God for a hit song one night. He woke up later, penned the lyrics to "I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home)" and laid the guitar line to Grand Funk Railroad's smash hit the next morning. Fans can catch ... Those jobs put them on the stage with musicians they admire, including Joe Walsh of the Eagles, Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad, NRBQ and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Former Tampa Bay Buc John Lynch and Hall of Famer Wade Boggs have booked the band ... Singer-guitarist Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad is 59. TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 59. Country singer Alvin Crow is 57. Actor Drake Hogestyn ("Days of Our Lives") is 54. Singer Suzzy Roche of The Roches is 51. Comedian Andrew "Dice" Clay is 50 Rock singer-musician Mark Farner is 59. Rock musician Mike Pinera is 59. Country singer Alvin Crow is 57. Actor Drake Hogestyn is 54. Singer Suzzy Roche (the Roches) is 51. Comedian Andrew "Dice" Clay is 50. Rock singer John Payne (Asia) is 49. Actor ...
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