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: My bad
Like many children, Heather studied hard, did her homework and played sports after school. During elementary school, she remembers being thin -- but things started to change as she approached adolescence. "My bad eating habits began during my ... One day before voters go to the polls in South Carolina's hotly contested Democratic primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton took on a more subdued tone and defended her husband's role in her campaign. "He obviously is a passionate advocate for my cause, as ... Failing to qualify for Euro 2008 and being sidelined after my first bad injury at the end of last season, which meant I needed surgery on my calf, gave me something to think about. Things like that help me learn and make me a stronger person. I know ... Rather than interpreting cheesy material with over-the-top commitment, Cole is an expert at uncovering hints of bad faith or self-deception, so that a long-flickering torch song like "You're My Thrill" suddenly flares up, taking on a menacing air of ... My friends, in case you hadn’t noticed, the times, they are getting rough. Being an English major, I have no claim to economic expertise. I barely have claim to a checking account (“If you have no penny, a hay-penny will do” is not, I have ... My feet hurt so bad," he said to the Star after the game. "But imagine a child or a human going their whole lives without shoes." Hunter, 43, has said he has been deeply affected by Samaritan's Feet and the mission he's joined, and his players have ... Well, winning every other week, you know, lose a set and people say I'm playing bad," Federer said. "So it's my own mistake, I guess." Of course, Federer's monster is one most athletes would love to have living in a crate in the corner, and his ... But I'm not saying this was a bad Sundance. To my own enormous surprise, in fact, I'm saying the opposite. For this festival to mean something -- something beyond the Main Street swag temples and all-night mansion parties, that is -- it must do more ... Meanwhile, Federer spoke about creating a monster and the pressure to win every tournament, saying, "… lose a set and people say I'm playing bad. So it's my own mistake, I guess." He gave the proper due to Djokovic. "Maybe I served too many aces ... ... aid for families in trouble — a commitment that requires maintaining the pretense that government spending is always bad ... interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve — won’t be sufficient to turn the economy around. (For more on this, see my ...
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