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: Ourselves
This is an ugly chapter in the sorry crisis we find ourselves in with subprime mortgages," Nilson said "[The city is] the second victim. First are the homeowners." The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, has been in the works since ... I told the guys, we can't worry about San Antonio, we have to worry about ourselves. We have to get back to playing the way we play. If we do, we will have a heck of a game (against the Spurs). If we don't, we won't." Two straight losses, two ... I don't know how we're going to reinvent ourselves." In a Detroit News poll conducted in August, 73 percent named the state's economy and unemployment rate as the top issue facing Michigan (73 percent of Democrats and 70 percent of Republicans). ... But right now, we need to take care of ourselves so we don't die. We're on the vine right now. We don't want to die." TAYLOR UPDATE: Captain Tim Taylor said he is going home to Stratford, Ontario, on Jan. 21 to skate through the end of the month ... We gave ourselves a shot and that's a positive. We came back twice from two-goal deficits. We're more mad about the last minute when we didn't protect the lead." Red Wings coach Mike Babcock agreed about the defensive lapses. "It's disappointing that ... So we can't really concern ourselves with that." Offensive tackle David Diehl understands that the pre-game hype has created the image of the haves and have nots with the Cowboys and Giants. "You can't put anything against them, they are a great team ... We needed to prove ourselves again," said Appel, who combined for 39 points and 19 rebounds in the losses. "I missed that (late) free throw against USC, so, yeah, we needed to show how hard we do work and to make up for last game." Stanford All ... Let us remind ourselves that wealth is created by the working class and not by a socialistic government. Joan Atkins, Palm Harbor Films leave reality on the cutting room floor Jan. 7, Ellen Goodman column Movie misstep Listening to her inner fuddy ... We avoid purely speculative jobs that are not likely to be movies no matter how good the script, but we consider ourselves lucky to have been offered projects that we can execute effectively as screenwriters - and see them get made. Ossana: Ditto as ... We've put ourselves in a great position as we look to take one step closer the quarter-finals. "But we've got another massive game coming up next Friday against Saracens at Firhill before we can achieve something that no Glasgow side has ever done ...
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