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: Native Sense: The New Duets
It makes sense that Stone is on Stax, for the South Carolina native boasts a delightful, deep-fried, Southern-soul voice that sounds right at home in her new duets with old-timers Betty Wright and James Ingram. And it makes sense that Stone has gone ... There's also the disturbing new presence of an efficiency expert (Kevin Spacey ... There's also a sense of A-level talent phoning it in. Vaughn is fine, but Giamatti ... cozy, intimate ambiance, Cameron decorated the interior with variations of native ... When things stop making sense, we'll work it out," she sings ... ALL-STAR DUETS WITH THE QUEEN Here is a disc that at first listen ... Another new song, "What Y'all Came To Do," features Springfield native John Legend. It's drenched in soul and is very ... Nice to see Wausau native Andy Crooks go out on a good note with a touchdown. How was your Christmas? Mine was very nice. All ... Next, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We'll get back to some serious blogging again after the holidays. J Respond ... Recently, Stuart has cut a duets compilation, a gospel album, a concert recording and a collection of Native American-themed tunes for his own label. He also popped up as a guest on new records by ... matchmaker and paired the tune's heavy sense of ... Sturgis native Tommy Womack kicks things off with an early show. During the '80s ... For more-mainstream pop tastes, a new duets sampler, Jewels in the Crown, hit stores ... An unusually literate sense of psychedelia has long pervaded Hitchcock's music ... Alicia Keys ' new album is all about self-empowerment, and it's no wonder why: The ... creating a social campaign where they can seek status and project a confident sense ... First McEntire welcomed the "American Idol" onto her recent Reba Duets album for a ... Amy Winehouse is once again at the center of a viral fiasco, according to a new ... creating a social campaign where they can seek status and project a confident sense ... First McEntire welcomed the "American Idol" onto her recent Reba Duets album for a ... Now, reissued with a new DVD of recent concert footage and promotional videos ... During that time back in his native country, he spent time with family and loved ones ... I’m a big fan of song titles that seemingly make no sense, especially when they ... Louis — even if they haven't released a new CD in forever. The group coasts on ... In the 1960s, Motown Records often released duets featuring the label's male and ... How difficult must it be to retain a sense of giddy optimism in your music as you ...
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