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: Palookaville
TV shows Lost , Sex and the City and The Sopranos , plus theatricals Palookaville and Kill the Poor . Similarly, Breaking Bad , a nine-episode AMC series debuting in January, also features top-level talent. The show follows a desperate man who turns to a ... As for the club fighters--Richardson, Biden, Dodd, Kucinich, Hunter, and Paul--they're about to be joined in Palookaville by a couple of pugs named Thompson and Giuliani--who, as columnist Mark Shields notes, is fading like a 40-dollar suit. The two ... The caucuses will either propel him into the center of the race lately dominated by two more glamorous rivals or provide him with a ticket to political palookaville. A very small number of Americans will decide the issue Thursday night. The top ... When Kentucky Coach Billy Gillispie likened his team to a boxer on Friday, he meant some tomato can from Palookaville. Because they'd be prone on the canvas soon enough, the Cats could use the soles of their shoes as advertisement space. "That bell ... I thought Peoria was a made-up place, like Palookaville." Moreover, even to some outsiders who realize Peoria is a real place, the city might as well be Palookaville. They've never been here, so they see no reason to visit. That's why I like the tactic ... LAS VEGAS - Ricky Hatton moves to center ring tonight, aiming to knock fellow welterweight Floyd Mayweather Jr. into a retirement home in Palookaville. For a few minutes yesterday afternoon, the pride of Manchester, UK, already had the elusive Pretty ... ... unable to sell the last 2000 tickets to home games unless some corporate angels spread their wings and bail them out, are still in the playoff hunt and host the “Yeah, But If They Don’t Stop Screwing Around, They’ll Be Back In Palookaville ... These include millions of analog-only sets that consumers bought over the last few years, unaware that they were already on the road to Palookaville. The broadcasters' public relations strategy includes thousands of public service commercials ... All that anguish of thinking we coulda had class, we coulda been somebody, amidst the body’s inexorable dilapidation and the surety of lost sexual appeal, buys women that one-way ticket to Palookaville. Men get over it with a chili-dog and ... Maybe you're just doing your job," sputters Rocky, his aching neck stretched from here to Palookaville, "but why you gotta stop me from doing mine?" Not that Stallone's comeback compares to the Greatest's for pure provocation, but it gets you thinking
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