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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Oingo Boingo
Other artists performing include the Psychedelic Furs, Berlin, The English Beat, Eek-A-Mouse, the Shys and a handful of tribute bands covering songs by artists like Sublime, No Doubt and Oingo Boingo. Now that the venue is set and the event seems to ... Other artists performing include the Psychedelic Furs, Berlin, The English Beat, Eek-A-Mouse, the Shys and a handful of tribute bands covering songs by artists like Sublime, No Doubt and Oingo Boingo. Now that the venue is set and the event seems to ... Danny Elfman [ex-member of Oingo Boingo]—who inspired me to do more—asked me, "Why don't you write your own score? You play guitar." And I thought, "Yeah, right," but it was just the way he looked at me that made me think, "Oh yeah, he was in a ... As front man for the Aquabats!, Jacobs dons superhero garb (as do his band mates) and acts out a comic-book-style story line in which the group combats evil through its damn-catchy and ludicrously peppy songs that fall somewhere between Oingo Boingo ... Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party" — Oingo Boingo, better known as Danny Elfman's old band, was pretty freaking cool. Their videos looked like Tim Burton directed them on ecstasy. For bonus hipster points, put in a copy of Forbidden Zone to play on the ... With "A Little Piece Of Heaven," the band teamed up with Steve Bartek (formerly of Oingo Boingo) and Marc Mann to create string, horn and choir arrangements. The multi-faceted track with a theatrical flair is whimsical and somewhat sinister. "We were ... Well, of course this is the best the Columbian and "John Edwards/Oingo Boingo/Blind Observer" can come up with. When all you do is select "facts" that support your "argument" instead of conducting ACTUAL RESEARCH which will give you a true historical ... ... we brought Corey out to L.A. the first time, we wanted to start introducing him to some producers just to see who he vibed with,” Helsel said. “We set up a meeting with a producer by the name of Richard Gibbs, an original member of Oingo Boingo ... A Little Piece of Heaven" (arranged by ex- Oingo Boingo member Steve Bartek) is a crude mess that veers from classic music hall to Danny Elfman movie soundtrack terrain. Oddly, most foul language is edited. On the upside, Shadows shows more of a nuanced ... We wanted Oingo Boingo meets country meets hip-hop," says vocalist M. Shadows (born Matt Sanders), whose singing style is frequently compared to Axl Rose's. "We had a lot of meetings with producers, telling them that we had a crazy vision. People ...
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