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: Nile
The Old Winter Palace in Luxor, 19th-century redoubt of kings and princes overlooking the Nile, has seen plenty of their like before: Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, Giscard d'Estaing and Jimmy Carter are among the political guests who have ... Sarkozy will be staying in a $1,100-a-night suite in the Victorian elegance of the Old Winter Palace on the east bank of the Nile, an Egyptian source said. Hordes of photographers and cameramen followed the motorcade at a distance as it wended its ... Other than occasional updates on things like West Nile Virus, out of the 600 or so columns so far very rarely has a subject been repeated. Here's a toast to many more to come. And remember, life is short so never forget to carpe diem. Larry Lyons ... After two days of sight-seeing on the Nile, the pair will move to the seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Thursday to join Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister, and Christine Ockrent, his television presenter wife. On Sunday, Sarkozy goes to Cairo ... Ancient Egyptians originally celebrated the New Year with the Feast of Opet around the middle of June, which was when the Nile River usually overflowed its banks. Consequently, people were unable to work and would be free to take part in the ... ... turned-singer girlfriend, Carla Bruni, visit the Karnak temple in Luxor, south of Cairo, on Wednesday. Sarkozy flew to the Egyptian city on Christmas Day aboard a private jet, accompanied by his new love, to spend Christmas on the banks of the Nile. ... They did Caesar IV , and they did Children of the Nile . I think that -- like in a lot of games -- it's sort of like sailing across the ocean in a boat and rebuilding the entire boat as you go. They started with a boat, and they've rebuilt it and made ... CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago police officer hopes to swim the perimeter of Lake Michigan this summer, traveling a total distance of more than 1,000 miles. Nial Funchion (NILE FUN'-chen) says he expects to swim about ten miles a day -- departing from ... Some 15 countries from Europe, America and Africa participated in the contest. Engineer Elewa Shalabi, the head of Nile General Roads and Bridges, which executed the project, received the award. The bridge takes the form of a sunboat, and is the ... ... which is far more expensive than doing the play. We’ll go, I hope, in March sometime, take a few weekends and a few days to shoot. The setting will have to be a park bench surrounded by trees and water. Maybe we’ll go to the banks of the Nile.”
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