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: Melancholy
This stately show of melancholy is an unusual amalgamation of influences from the strangely passionate singer whose full-bodied vocals give a surreal edge to her bittersweet musings. 7. Richard Hawley's "Lady's Bridge." This baritone crooner from ... ... the Fountains of Wayne at their own game and creates an uplifting slice of power pop deceptive in its subtlety. Add a bridge glorious enough to grace any song as a main chorus, and all you can do is sit back and bask in the music's sunny melancholy. ... The melancholy-tinged "The Good I Know You Know" and the Pogues-like "Home for Supper" showcase H&H's folk and Celtic affinities, respectively, as well as Hoots' inclusive philosophy. But perhaps the most personal track is "Forks and Knives," which ... With older brother Yuval, 34, on soprano saxophone, the Cohens fashion an outing full of lyrical melancholy, streaked with some slinky Latin tinge. There's no familial dysfunction on this smooth-flowing sextet session. Legato moods predominate. And ... His precision, even in creating melancholy, is a wondrous thing. 9 Stacked: A 32DDD Reports From the Front , by Susan Seligson - The dark horse on my list is equal parts memoir, cultural study and comedy routine. Seligson explores "the breast culture ... LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is the exception on both counts, and "Sound of Silver" manages to be melancholy and exuberant. Download: "All My Friends." Jens Lekman, "Night Falls Over Kortedala." Jens Lekman is often compared to Stephin Merritt of ... Castaneda received the poncho and mule in a formal hand-over ceremony staged to melancholy music and memorialized on YouTube. Castaneda, who had never flown in an airplane before winning his post, seems to have warmed to being a traveling trademark ... The Dallas singer-songwriter pens exquisitely heartfelt songs but, like Crowded House or Ray Davies, never lets his melancholy overwhelm the melody. 9. Fat Freddy's Drop, "Based on a True Story" This New Zealand septet's bass-heavy, horn-splashed ... It's the usual Cirque mix of the beautiful and the bizarre, the commercial and the colorful, but this time with a melancholy, occasionally morbid, edge. • Slings & Arrows: Season 3 comes out on DVD. This brilliant Canadian comedy about a small ... No Country for Old Men": Ethan and Joel Coen delivered a perfect movie: the pitch, the sense of place, the melancholy, the touches of humor, the steady suspense and, of course, the acting (Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones and Kelly ...
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