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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Modest Mouse
Artists: Bright Eyes , Queens of The Stone Age , Interpol , Slayer , Modest Mouse , The Gossip , Lamb of God , 65daysofstatic , Ludacris , Mastodon , Kaiser Chiefs , Amy Winehouse , The Killers , My Chemical Romance , The Long Blondes , TV On The ... Albums "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.," from Modest Mouse. Lyrically, this is one of the most interesting albums I have ever heard. "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone" from Explosions in the Sky. The group is famous for the soundtrack to ... Among its triumphs were Modest Mouse, the Polyphonic Spree, Tegan and Sara, Paolo Nutini and two big shows, Iron & Wine and Marc Cohn, presented by the Rialto at the Fox Theatre, down the street. Artists: Mogwai , Les Savy Fav , Echo and the Bunnymen , Sparklehorse , Yo La Tengo , Shellac , Modest Mouse , Trans Am , Subtitle , Isis , The Thermals , Why? , Subtle , Akron/Family , Battles , Daniel Johnston , Band of Horses , Grizzly Bear DiS is ... In fashion (skulls and crossbones, stripes, anchor-emblazoned everything, wide-legged trousers, double-breasted coats . . .), in music (Modest Mouse’s latest: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank—complete with anchor merch; Decemberists ... Jeff Tweedy's moody midlife musings and Nels Cline's squelchy guitar static align in a most agreeable fashion. See also: Modest Mouse, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank ; Liars, Liars Bettye LaVette, The Scene of the Crime : Distinguished by her heart ... ... is mostly dull, volta is fucking terrible, arcade fire sucked as usual, white stripes continues to be alarmingly mediocre, kanye west is a douche, battles is uninteresting noise, bright eyes is for pussies, lcd soundsystem sucks balls, modest mouse ... Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic/Sony BMG). Isaac Brock explores the possibilities of not floating, with Johnny Marr aboard as full crew member. Angry Northwestern fatalism, strange funkiness and bottomless well of melody. 4 ... Toko (Yasuda, of Enon – all members of Enon contribute to the LP in some way, as do Emily Haines, Andrew Reuland, Modest Mouse’s Joe Plummer, Fred Armisen and Islands’ Nicholas Thorburn) and Eleanor did wonderfully on these songs, and ... ... observations would Herman Melville, the great bard of the whaling industry, make about smelts, a variety of fish so modest in ... his friendship with Coviello, who at 36 is three decades younger and comes from the opposite end of the city-country mouse ...
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