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 Unplugged - 1994
In January 1994, he joined the cast of the soap opera General Hospital, playing Miguel Morez. His recurring role was so ... Martin then released MTV Unplugged in 2006 in both CD and DVD formats. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Written by ... In the fall, Springsteen taped an MTV Unplugged segment (though he plugged in after one song), and the performance was released ... The song became a Top Ten hit in 1994, winning the Academy Award for Best Song and cleaning up at the Grammys the ... By 1994, MTV's "Unplugged" series already had begun to grow tired, and Nirvana, to its credit, used the format to give props to Meat Puppets Chris and Kurt Kirkwood, who never would have had the forum to expose their music to the masses on their own ... ... from the 1967 debut (with the late Syd Barrett), "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" to 1994 ... Nirvana's "Unplugged in New York" ($19.98) captures that group's powerful, acoustic MTV performance from 1993 ... Michigan homeboy Eminem's last tour in 2005 is ... ... Times and it was remarkable how different the mood was in Seattle during the memorial for Cobain in April 1994. ... Similarly, he takes delight at one point in the "Unplugged" taping in putting MTV in its place during the December 1993 taping. When released on CD in November 1994, MTV Unplugged In New York debuted #1, won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album in 1996 and was quickly certified five times platinum. Favoring a selection of carefully chosen tracks over the band's hits ... Long awaited in the DVD format, Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged performance hits store shelves this week. Like the 1994 CD release, the DVD will feature 22 minutes not originally broadcast by MTV, as well as bonus sound checks and back stage antics ... ... affords new perspective on their careers, and today's release of Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged in New York" further reinforces that. The stripped-down performance was originally released on CD seven months after Cobain's suicide in April 1994 and went on ... MTV Unplugged in New York" (Geffen/UME) Since the 1994 death of lead singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain, grunge rockers Nirvana haven't released much, yet their music still receives regular rotation at radio stations nationwide. "MTV Unplugged in New York ... The group revisited the top of the charts as the Eagles when they got back together in 1994 for "Hell Freezes Over," a disc that combined a live performance on MTV's Unplugged with a smattering of new tracks. A big tour followed, but internal tensions ...
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