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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Pentangle
As a solo artist and as founder of folk super group Pentangle — an outfit he formed with fellow six-string giant John Renbourn — Jansch crafted a haunting style that creatively combined American folk and blues with the traditional sounds of the ... Cowan first got interested in traditional songs from the British Isles as a teenager, when she heard folk rock bands such as Pentangle, Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention. ”I always loved folk music — Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary and all ... I started finding out a lot about British folk music firstly through Fairport Convention and Pentangle and all its associated players. There's a fantastic history, the deeper and deeper you get. "She is one of the singers that transcended the ... There was no shortage of music with the marchers being accompanied by the Heathfield Silver Band, the Pentangle Drummers from Eastbourne, the Section Five Drumming Band from Battle and the Downs Youth Marching Band. The marchers' route took them from ... Happily, Jansch is uncommonly expressive with the guitar, and while he made his name in the late 1960s when the folk boom crossed into rock music, and later with Pentangle, who fused jazz and folk, his extraordinary ability has made him a touchstone ... When the band disintegrated in 1968, Jimmy's first idea was to relaunch it as the New Yardbirds, with a lighter, folk-rock influence from bands such as Fairport Convention and Pentangle. But he needed a singer, and with impresario Peter Grant, who ... Folk-rock pioneer John Renbourn pays a flying visit to Belfast prior to the big Pentangle reunion in London. Don't miss it, says Damien Murray The weekly Old Flattop Music Club at Belfast's Rotterdam Bar has a real treat for music lovers on Monday ... Herren cites Kurtis Blow, Moondog, the Austrian avant-electroid Fennesz and the UK folk band Pentangle as influences. He is also part of A Cloud Mireya, a Latin-influenced acoustic hippy outfit. Most prominent on the alternative circuit are Battles ... A DRUMMER rehearses with his new band in preparation for the kick-off show of their tour tonight. But this is not just any drummer. This is the drummer of Jethro Tull fame. Clive Bunker has played drums for Pentangle and Gordon Giltrap as well as ... If one listens to an English folk group like Fairport Convention or Pentangle much of this music is very danceable. I also mention these groups in particular because both had female lead vocalists (Jacqui McShee of Pentangle and the late Sandy ...
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