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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Melvins
Melvins, Comets on Fire, Triclops! Slim's. 9pm, $40. *Neurosis, Earth, Saviours Great American Music Hall. 9pm, $40. See pick box. *New Morty Show with Connie Champagne and Vise Grip, Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys, Frisky Frolics, Ramshackle Romeos ... Melvins the real thing The Melvins are the sonic children of two of the best "Black" rock bands of all time — Black Flag and Black Sabbath. The group takes the punk rock energy of the former and welds it together with the heavy metal vibe of the ... Juno breezily signs on the dotted line, and because she likes the couple and doesn't know any better, starts hanging out with Mike, a thwarted rocker turned advertising jingle composer who turns her on to Sonic Youth and the Melvins. At first it's ... Nirvana's Krist Novoselic Remembers the Croc - Hear an MP3 of the bassist playing the Belltown club with the Melvins' Buzz Osborne and Nirvana's Dave Grohl in 1992. Seven Memories of the Croc - Selections from Reverb, our music and ... Subject(s): The Melvins by J. Pace , Van Morrison by Jonah Bayer , Conflict by John Graham , Ledisi and the Count Basie Orchestra by Ernest Barteldes , X by Toph One On first hearing Ledisi 's major-label debut, Lost and Found , you might think that ... The Dukes went with prolific American expatriate Jonathan Burnside (The Sleepy Jackson, Faith No More and the Melvins) for in-house production on the record. Mixing and mastering then took place at Tonteknik Studios, Sweden, by hardcore masters Pelle ... In some of these scenes, Cody's writing seems to sacrifice clarity for hip pop-culture allusions; would a guy like Mark who played in a band that toured with the Melvins really be unfamiliar with 1970s Patti Smith and Iggy Pop music; and would Juno ... The reaction for Isis has been an expanding fan base that includes followers of other progressive bands such as Tool (with whom Isis toured last year), Neurosis, the Melvins, and Godflesh. Formed in Boston in late 1997, Isis relocated to Los Angeles ... Along with the Melvins, Soundgarden was one of the first rock bands to slow down punk's youthful energy to a Black Sabbath-like crawl. First issuing a few releases on independent labels (Sub Pop's Screaming Life and Fopp EPs, SST's Ultramega OK ... Since then, Biafra has been using his numerous spoken-word albums (including his latest, In the Grip of Official Treason ) and collaborations with bands like The Melvins to dissect disinformation, dole out optimism, and disseminate ways of taking ...
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