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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Neutral Milk Hotel
... Green - "Let's Stay Together" Hour 4 - Listen The Flaming Lips - "Do You Realize" Guillemots - "Made Up Lovesong #43" The Pogues w/ Kirsty MacColl - "Fairytale Of New York" Prince - "Nothing Compares 2 U" Pixies - "La La Love You" Neutral Milk Hotel ... Sorry for only having one post today - we've had some breaking news this afternoon, and I know I've got more stuff coming down the pipeline so I'll go ahead and throw out the wild card for today. The big guy will be back next week, and the weekend ... Contestants are silhouetted as they rehearse for the Miss America Pageant at the Aladdin hotel-casino in Las Vegas in this Jan. 27, 2007, file photo. The Miss America Pageant has been dropped by Country Music Television, leaving the 86-year-old ... Senate minority will spend two days at the Saratoga Hotel and Conference Center attending workshops with optimistic titles like “Preparing for the Majority” (Minority Leader Malcolm Smith has a taste for feel-good aphorisms and likes to adopt ... Hailing from Austin, Texas, the indie-pop troupe names Blonde Redhead and Neutral Milk Hotel as two of its inspirations, a fact which becomes painfully obvious through a listen of its new collection. At times, AM Syndicate’s attempt at a social ... Think Neutral Milk Hotel with a bit less bombast or Iron & Wine with a little added distortion. State Bird is the musical vision of Coby Hartzler and Jarod Riblet. They made their debut with the aptly titled Marching Through the Wilderness, a ... -Brian Bosma taking Greg Ballard in to see House Speaker Pat Bauer. Ballard returned about a minute later, alone, saying the Speaker was polite. -Greg Porter deflecting questions about a possible run for Congress in the 7th District. "I have a ... Athens, Georgia has a long line of musical history. From R.E.M. to the B52's and even Neutral Milk Hotel the small city North of Atlanta has produced some of the most legendary bands to come out of the south. Hot on the tails of all those legendary ... Bounce That" is a good example of what's on the album, as rap hooks fit together with disco grooves and indie guitar riffs -- there are bits in here from 2 Live Crew, Paula Abdul, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sir Mix-a-Lot and Wings. This kind of ADD dance ... For forty minutes – in moments that are alternately Dylan-meets-Cohen pensive and Neutral-Milk-Hotel-meets-Neil-Young boisterousness – Denver’s cold and tired collectively gaze upon Perkins as if upon a lover. Three weeks later I catch up with ...
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