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: Peace Is Tough
RAFAH, Egypt (AP) -- Egyptian forces left their breached border with the Gaza Strip open for a fifth day Sunday but tightened a security cordon around the border town of Rafah to keep Palestinians inside Egypt confined to a small zone. Thousands of ... Annan said, even as mediation talks go on, Kibaki and Raila "must be prepared to take tough decisions to restore peace to build a strong and viable Kenya." Annan managed to bring the two protagonists to a meeting at Harambee House, the President’s ... Nissan's U.S. sales outlook tough amid possible slowdown Fort Pike, submerged by Katrina, to reopen next month. Universal Forest ... Associated Press - January 27, 2008 2:03 AM ET JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Former Indonesian dictator Suharto has died ... You have some tough times ahead, but don't worry, you are doing what is right." Bennett recalls to the authors that it was a strange way to end an otherwise memorable day, spoiling "the intimacy, calm and peace I'd felt." In 1996, Bennett's hubby, ... That said, he has also made peace with his station in life. "Now I'm old enough to realize that anything could have happened ... After a tough redshirt year, followed by the departure of Hurricanes coach Butch Davis to the NFL, Prunty switched his ... A Palestinian Hamas militant, not seen, fires in the direction of Egyptian police dogs, bottom, as Egyptian border guards and riot police officers try to protect themselves at the border between Egypt and Gaza, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday ... ... Boogiii Men Entertainment Group - say that in 2004, they sent their CD, Boogiii Men Beats Volume I , to Disturbing Tha Peace ... As third in command of New York's storied Le Bernardin, "she's tough but feminine," says Ripert. Carroll, 33, grew up in ... ... powerbrokers left their annual gathering in the Swiss ski resort of Davos on Sunday, pursued by grim warnings of a tough ... On the geopolitical front, debate focused on efforts for peace in the Middle East, the stand-off over Iran's nuclear ... Maybe this time Israel has learned a lesson: that the world comes around to its side when it plays tough. Derision happens when Israel goes whoring after peace. People hate a patsy. Tough guys don't dance (or give up territory). The usual suspects ... While much of the 315-page book focuses on Welch's tough-guy persona, there are lighter moments. He gorged on frozen yogurt ... In the late 1990s, when GE was under fire from peace activists for producing weapons, Welch boarded a corporate helicopter ...
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