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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Pavement
Your BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train compartment is deep under San Francisco Bay when The Big One hits: pavement breaking, live wires sizzling, trucks exploding. . . . But that's not the worst of it. The real horror is that you must suffer ... Drivers have assumed right of way on both road and pavement and routinely park right across the latter, forcing pedestrians into the street where they will then be hooted at by passing cars. All surfaces have bumps and potholes, an ad hoc style also ... Even in moderate storms, such as heavy downpours that come at least every two years, stream flows explode to about four to five times what they would have experienced in the days when trees, instead of pavement, covered the landscape. • Most creeks ... Pavement, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie, Fiona Apple, Built to Spill and Rilo Kiley. Her album covers include the White Stripes' "Icky Thump," the Raconteurs' "Broken Boy Soldiers" and Beck's "Sea Change." "I'm a fan," she says. "I ... Sunday, 4:15, CBS (Greg Gumbel, Dan Dierdorf) • Sheridan's line: Chargers by 81/2 • Last meeting: The Chargers won 28-14 at home Oct. 14. • Streaking: San Diego has won the last eight matchups. • Pound the pavement: The Raiders are allowing a ... Frozen, she watched a man, wounded in the back, grab his side and crumple to the Colorado Boulevard pavement. Dozens of holiday revelers in the popular Italian restaurant "screamed and ducked," she said. A doctor eating dinner and a server rushed ... After a quick nap and massage, Baluchi hit the pavement again. He made sure to drink a bottled water before leaving, noting he couldn’t carry a camel pack of water on his back in the Maine cold. "It freezes on me," Baluchi said with a chuckle. For ... Some of the students who saw Kasle hit the car's windshield and then slam into the pavement were left deeply shaken, said Rabbi Yossi Lebovics, principal of the seminary. They received professional counseling but two of them, from France and Israel ... Carter was assaulted at a gas station in his ward, knocked out, police say, by a man aggressively hawking movies and music discs. Carter was hit in the mouth, losing consciousness when his head struck the pavement. For Carter — whose family has ... Police said the victim was travelling with his best friend to Upper Street in Islington to go to the sales yesterday when a fight broke out on the No 73 bus, spilling onto the pavement crowded with lunchtime shoppers. Passers-by watched in horror as ...
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