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: Otherness
Yet his dwarfs are not supposed to conjure feelings of "otherness". His sculpted dwarfs possess great dignity. Silent and serene, they appear locked in melancholic thought. "My characters sometimes behave as a mirror that cannot reflect," Muñoz once ... Forget sentimental tripe about cultural otherness. Yes, the book tastes as Chinese as chilli and garlic and Eight Dragons sauce, but it’s essentially a pure and bracing blast of universal youth. This is a rites-of-passage story told in snapshots ... ... mix of indescribable sounds and smells and flesh and moneyless community, and you can describe it to death and even come reasonably close to getting a sense of it, but what you will never get is the epic scale, the sheer overwhelming Otherness. ... At the core of that mentality is a craving for otherness. Zoophilia isn't homo. It's hetero. Very hetero. The men in the movie think their trysts are meaningful. "It's the love of animals—that's what zoophilia is," says one, a ranch hand who goes by ... Something so familiar and comforting is suddenly portrayed as an exotic and threatening food, providing a pointed reminder of our own "otherness." Hesse's show also includes a series of small, framed pieces ... Friedkin wasn't a homophobe — ten years earlier, he had directed the film version of Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band — but when he began Cruising , he remained a somewhat agog tourist in gay culture, staring in fascination at its otherness and ... Tolerance of “otherness” and encouragement of open (and nonviolent) discussions of differences were reinforced throughout the school. Perhaps the college administration should take this opportunity to change the school’s mascot name from “The ... His approach to playing autism is much like Sigourney Weaver’s in Snow Cake — the only real physical manifestation of their “otherness” is confined to their eyes, which takes on a glassiness that deftly manages to convey inwardness rather than ... The thrust of these pieces is in the very title of the work, Entity, which describes this intangible otherness that we are trying to grapple with and create." · This article was amended on Wednesday December 19 2007. Wayne McGregor's Entity premieres ... Bestride her harp, she’s eye catching in hot-pants and robed by tumbling blonde hair. (Is it just me, or does she look like Jodie Marsh here ? – Ed) Her speaking voice has a bell-like chime to it, which twinned with her otherness, has DiS entranced ...
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