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: New Scots Music
I cannot believe that Scots want their national flag to be subservient to the Union flag. Such an act would be an insult to the Scottish nation. At the very least they should be flown at the same level. In my heart I believe that the Saltire should take ... New director Beverly Childs greeted gala attendees and Katy Rashid of the Upstate ... Festival group will offer a month of events that will spotlight the music, food and ... of this part of the country comes from the hard working nature of the Scots-Irish Just when you thought karaoke had kicked the last signs of life out of 'New York ... There may be an age difference of three decades between them, but Scots-born ... The idea of Verdi's music being reduced for a chamber ensemble might seem weird ... Will it be tickets to Carles Santos’ joyous new show on the life of composer Rossini - The Composer, the Singer, the ... Traditional Scots music will be represented by a series of concerts documenting historical events in different areas of the ... Valentine was a priest in Rome at the time when Christianity was a new religion ... dinner with choice of salmon or filet mignon and two bands for continuous music and ... Her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots (Samantha Morton), carries the favor of the nation ... He loves the music of Scotland, he said, the camaraderie and the folklore of his ... Next week, he said, wherever there are fellow Scots, they will celebrate the birth ... When you get into these ethnic groups, you get to meet a whole lot of new people ... One had a new transmission fail. I bought a washing machine, but the retailer lost ... It retells Scots and English trials, usually of murderers, and the author has a way ... I've never been a fan of Danny Elfman's movie music, and as this is essentially an ... It started in 1946 and it comprises a fusion of blues, Scots-Irish string band music along with elements of swing. When Monroe combined those elements in a musical form, it became very popular. Monroe spawned so many emulators it started a whole new ... ... least that’s the way the band’s Chris Thile explained the gateway from a New ... bitter friend, truth. “Scotch and Chocolate” was a bluegrass-fusion of Scots ... That movie, inspired by a favorite Nickel Creek haunt, the Los Angeles dinner, music ... It's a form of dance that originated from Scots-Irish and European descent, known for its foot-stomping, clicking, tapping and shuffling to music. Happy New Year, all. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year and got lots of good music to ...
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