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: Out Loud
THERE ARE certain things that people just refuse to believe in this town, and one of them is that the Eagles really do pretty well in the draft. You say this out loud and people start spitting in fury, fuming and fulminating and speed-yelling so that ... That's a book title I wouldn't ever have been able to say out loud. And it's a great book. I can't believe I'm saying that! I never would have thought that. But it's very practical and not new-agey, not touchy-feely. It's about developing a strong ... The upcomingGuitar HeroAir Guitar Rocker is a belt-buckle accessory that plays notes out loud as you strum and move your hand past the buckle's sensors. It comes with a small speaker that clips on your belt, but during the demo it was hooked up to a ... Apart from being born - and the time he fell out of bed for reasons that were so my fault I've only now, 10 weeks later, been able to say those words out loud - he'd known no pain his whole life, and here we are, stabbing him in the leg. "Let's just ... Loud, aggressive music, he said, “keeps you elevated, especially in between sets.” Mr. Perine prefers to work out to hip-hop. “Let’s say you’ve done a grueling set of squats,” he said. “You’re out of breath, and L. L. Cool J’s ... Watching Hillary Clinton pretending to get teary-eyed is enough to make me give up shedding tears altogether. The currency, you might say, has become devalued. Lumps in the throat are henceforth to be swallowed. I shall adopt once more the obduracy ... The defendants answered "yes" in barely audible voices, so quietly that Konat at one point told Anderson, "I'm sorry, you'll have to answer out loud." Their lawyers entered the pleas of not guilty on their behalf. After the hearing, the family rushed ... When pressed, he "laughed out loud" and became belligerent, the report stated. He struck an officer before trying to walk away. Officers struggled to restrain him, and many in the crowd converged on them, the report stated. Police said bartender ... I am a firm believer in mantras, and often pick a soothing phrase to repeat to myself - out loud if it gets really scary. I always have a little charm with me, and the necklace that my sweetie gave me. I have seen adults carry stuffed animals onboard ... Oh, for crying out loud. People think you have to eat a bowl of nuts and bolts for breakfast to be able to make policy and hard decisions. But it apparently helps to show you have something beating beneath the power suit. Turns out the thing Hillary has ...
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