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: MTV Acoustic
His 1984 album Windows and Walls found Fogelberg out of step in the age of MTV. Rather than change his style, he recorded ... The acoustic Full Circle (2003) was his last album. He retired in 2004 after being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer ... ... Pageant,” “Marketers” and “Grateful.” Various others will be rolled out through 2008 airing on Fox, MTV, VH-1 ... For example, “Three chords,” a 15-second spot, features a 13-year Care Bears on Fire singer playing acoustic guitar while ... ... less than a microcosm of recorded blues and the long, strange trip it took in the 20th century, from the plucking of acoustic ... In a world of MTV performers who lip-synch their songs in sold-out concerts, is blues an endangered music at a critical ... ... such a huge promotional push a few weeks before its November release, with Keys on nearly every commercial break on MTV ... break too far out of the contemporary R&B box but rather adds a singer-songwriter's touch to the familiar sound with acoustic ... Eddie Vedder, once an MTV star, long ago gave up appearing in music videos and did his best to cast off pop stardom. But ... score for Sean Penn's film "Into the Wild," and the video is mostly Vedder sitting on a stool while he sings and plays acoustic ... MCS is a Minnesota rock band that just finished a headlining tour for MTVu: a sister channel of MTV that is broadcast on ... It is a three-night music television production taped live: showcasing acoustic performances by 12 artists who have connections ... ... have become his trademark, he took a step back with "Sea Change," which is essentially a sequel to his 1998 mostly acoustic ... What should be clear is that although the Super Furry Animals might not have the faces that MTV likes or the kind of music ... ... Name Is” to the eerily moving “Stan.” A trio of new tracks — to ensure that it all looks current to retail and MTV ... A proper solo record, Book of Shadows, showcased Wylde’s more solemn and largely acoustic side. The seldom-played classic ... ... All Night" and "Darkness On The Edge Of Town", that album is stark but rawks 100% differently than the bleak and dark acoustic ... Said relatives would have extensive military experience, and would be heavily armed and supported by NBC/MTV/ESPN/Whoever ... ... as Jimi Hendrix and the Doors; looking nearly as awkward as his fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell, Cohen strummed his acoustic ... Not the stuff of pop charts or MTV heavy rotation, it attracted Cohen's usual coterie of fans, and enough press interest ...
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