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: Miserere
These beautiful works shared the evening with several selections from Lassus’ Lagrime di San Pietro , a Stabat Mater by Palestrina, Allegri’s Miserere , and after all that, a radiant version of In the Sweet By and By to bring a rapt Fort Lauderdale ... But the final punchline came when the mood struck her to get through the pleading "Ne Me Quitte Pas" or the sinister "The German Miserere," revealing a heartrending torch-song alto. The riotous act has made her a fixture on the festival circuit, with ... Among the finds: a rare blown glass creation by William Morris, Dama Gazelle Situla; a print from Georges Rouault's series Miserere, a set of works created at the start of World War I to chronicle humanity sharing in the life and suffering of Jesus ... I can't remember a fall season of such extraordinary choral concerts, from Cappella Romana's premiere of Robert Kyr's rapturous environmental oratorio, "A Time for Life," to the heavenly stillness of David York Ensemble's performance of "Miserere" by ... Part prayer, part meditation, a concert by the David York Ensemble slowed time to a trickle on Saturday. For which we gave thanks, particularly at this time of year. With Henryk Gorecki's slow-motion "Miserere" as the centerpiece, the choir brought ... The 'neighbor', as Zucchero liked to call his fellow provincial from Emilio Romagna, Luciano Pavarotti, first recorded with him in 1992 resulting in the hit song Miserere. The pair worked together on annual charity events for over twenty years ... 4. David York Ensemble The 16-voice choir sings Henryk Gorecki's poignant "Miserere" plus chant and a new work by York, "Mother of Us All." 8 p.m. Saturday, the Grotto Chapel, Northeast 85th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard, $20, 800-838-3006. 5. "Endless ... It was particularly poignant because Zucchero has collaborated with Pavarotti many times and the song, "Miserere," was sung along with Pavarotti's recorded performance. As for Federico, he wasn't at Carnegie Hall this past weekend, and he won't be ... There's a wonderful little detail at this stage, with Zucchero having used Bocelli only for a demo tape with which he could persuade the great Pavarotti to record his song "Miserere". But when Pavarotti heard the tape, he told Zucchero he himself ... As a tribute to his longtime friend, Zucchero performs a "duet" with Pavarotti in concert, singing Miserere, a song they performed many times. As well, in his two-hour concerts, he performs many songs from his latest CD, which was produced by ...
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