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: Northern Song
And having had his superb album, I Am A Tree, on repeat for the best part of a week, he's clearly the best artist to come out of Northern Ireland for years. Suckling sounds uncannily like Robbie Williams. Each song is consummately crafted ... Just as, growing up the eldest of seven children in a tight-knit Catholic family in Northern Ireland, he knew the ugly face of ... Jim Sheridan’s screen adaptation of Christy Brown’s autobiography, garnered international acclaim in 1989. Hear My Song ... Brunei-Muara - About 40 delegates were treated to a night of festive and colourful song and dance at the Emperor's ... Organising the meeting is the Northern Territory Government of Australia, while Brunei Darussalam plays host. The guest of ... In "Skinny Love," a song earning steady airplay on the Current (89.3 FM), his voice rises to a fevered pitch as he sings ... up 500 copies of "For Emma" and settled on the moniker Bon Iver ("bone-eevair"), which he took from an episode of "Northern ... ... however, Costigan saw that television was again becoming a medium for serious writing as he watched acclaimed movies such as "The Glass House" and "Brian's Song," he told The Times in 1975. In 1972, he wrote "A War of Children," about two Northern ... But he had been recruited for the job explicitly for the song craft he demonstrated on the early Ray's Vast Basement recordings, which spun tales about a fictional Northern California town, Drakesville, populated by eccentric characters. In a way ... When it covers such artists as Aretha Franklin, the band tries to remain "true to the rhythmic groove of the original song," Demerath said. Demerath joined Northern Lights in 2003, replacing founding member Taylor Armerding. "It's been a fun experience ... Sometimes it’s societal revenge, as in Rwanda, Northern Ireland, or the Middle East. Sometimes it’s particular, personal ... If forgiveness can make it there, to paraphrase Kander and Ebb’s song, it can make it anywhere. Most people who attempt to ... ... of Greenfield Farm scored a personal best in the auction ring with Monday's $1.5 million sale of the broodmare Gwen's Song ... I just think he'll be well received in Northern California, because he's run here for so long," said Victory Rose owner Ellen ... Saturday could be called “Schenectady High School Night” at Northern Lights (North Country Commons, 1208 Route 146, Clifton ... Published by Lee & Low Books, the book sells for $22 and includes the band’s eight-song CD. “I’m always looking for a ...
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