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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Pat Metheny Group
Our jazz scene, with plenty of players and singers in their prime, is getting a creative infusion from a group of gifted ... And what a fundraiser it is, with the Pat Metheny Trio, with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez, appearing at ... Pocket trombonist Claude St-Jean's 9-piece group has never sounded so invigorating! 16. Davy Sicard: Ker Maron (Warner). ... Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau: Metheny Mehldau Quartet (Nonesuch). Guitarist Metheny's uplifting vision and luminosity restrains ... The disc features a number of Brecker's longtime collaborators — including Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette and ... The Band Member: Most of Brecker's recordings with pioneering jazz-fusion outfits like Dreams (an early-'70s group that ... Unlike the Pat Metheny Group's regular keyboard player Lyle Mays, who also plays an array of synthesizers, Mehldau sticks exclusively to acoustic piano. Metheny and Mehldau share a passion for lyricism which is particularly evident on the four duet ... Here, Armisen the chameleon plays two roles: master drummer Hannemann -- who "has asked to record with such artists as Sheryl Crow, Pat Metheny Group, Massive Attack, Barenaked Ladies ..." and who "knows everything there is to know about rudiments ... Without Burton and Coltrane, the all-star group - Haynes, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett ... and it seems to fit, whether he was playing with Charlie Parker or Lester Young or Coltrane or Miles or Chick or Pat Metheny ... We'll begin to answer that Wednesday night when drummer Roy Haynes and an impressive group of other musicians take the ... the most part, San Francisco area fans have needed to visit Yoshi's Oakland to get their fix of, say, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny ... For more than 25 years, the lyricism so prevalent in guitarist Metheny's music has been viewed mostly within the accessible orchestration of the popular Pat Metheny Group. But when keyboardist and PMG co-pilot Lyle Mays is absent, Metheny's ensembles ... Her latest CD, "The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams", is her debut on The Decca Label Group, and includes guest appearances from Pat Metheny and Oumou Sangare, among others. She stopped by The Current studios before her appearance at The ... These FBI files include coverage of John Kerry's activity as a leader of the anti-Vietnam War group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War. These FBI files have been the subject of great discussion and news coverage recently, yet few have actually ever ...
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