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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Obsessions
The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi,” by Aram Roston, and “Land of Sin: Inside the Movement That Controls the Republican Party,” by Max Blumenthal. PublicAffairs will be putting out “By His Own Rules: The Story ... A throwback to an era when newspaper reporters were colorful, larger-than-life figures, Chicago Tribune columnist Terry Armour was also a passionate and incisive interpreter of those twin obsessions of American culture: sports and entertainment ... When his pet obsessions are not engaged, Novick is a scrupulous scholar, and he writes lucidly and elegantly. The pages dealing with James's extended tour of America in 1904-1905, and his complex, subtle reactions to the nation's capitalism ... Previous generations of parents merely rolled their eyes at pop star obsessions. Why is ours trying so hard to join the fan club? Jamie Lynn's pregnancy is a train wreck, even if her own mother prefers to treat it as a public event, selling her story ... So there is nothing at all abnormal or wrong with thinking about such things, unless you find yourself highly disturbed by the thoughts or they make for unwelcome intrusions or obsessions. You say you are turned on by the thought of your husband ... Don Jenkins from Canada writes: I can't believe we as adult humans are so pathetic that we issue audio tapes of our threats to assert power over a situation. Or that we riot in the streets when elections don't go our way. Or that we would rather ... He was a great obsessive, and his obsessions were never governed by fashion. For more than 30 years, his favourite pop group remained Manfred Mann: until he fell ill, he would travel to out-of-the-way places such as Basingstoke or Lowestoft just to ... He walked away from his own conservative instincts and his party's anti-tax obsessions, and put his political career on the line, in order to raise the new tax revenue needed to make state government work. He earned a legacy of achievement, not a ... This and other holiday obsessions are why my children have dubbed me "Mr. Christmas." These shows make Christmas fun, but an incident in 1965 taught me the true meaning of the holiday. On Dec. 23 that year, like most 10-year-olds, I was consumed with ... Christian Bale is remarkable as a man doomed and rescued by his obsessions. "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" Sidney Lumet's tense, tight thriller about a New York family that finds itself playing out a Greek drama. Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei and ...
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