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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Peter Gabriel

Phil Collins too joined up with his Genesis band mates again (minus Peter Gabriel) for a giant tour, Lou Reed was back performing, and Van Halen announced concerts for the first time in 22 years with original singer David Lee Roth. The Sex Pistols ... Peter C. Neesley died of an undetermined cause in a noncombat situation in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 7th ... Kim Gerlach, a teacher at Pere Gabriel Richard Elementary School in Grosse Pointe Farms, met Neesley briefly last month when ... Peter Gabriel is restarting his record label, Real World, with a new collaborative album and a slew of reissues. Newly distributed in the United States by Ryko, Real World will make its entire catalogue available online and rerelease some of its ... The profitable Turn it on Again tour by Phil Collins and the Peter Gabriel-less group kicks off its North American leg with the first-ever concert at Toronto's new soccer stadium. Britney Spears MTV Video Music Awards (Sept. 9) A comeback concert does ... GENESIS: They tried to tempt back original singer Peter Gabriel, 57, but he was too busy with his wizardly beard. Instead the latter line-up of Phil Collins, 56, Mike Rutherford, 57, and Tony Banks, 57, brought Genesis back, opening Live Earth and ... And Peter Gabriel . And Elton John . And the Doors . Pretty much every rock band from A-Z existed because of their ignoring conventional boundaries. Pete’s going to keep pretending. Because that’s all art really is. You puff up your sense of ... The musician Peter Gabriel likened the fight against AIDS to the fight against apartheid. Introducing his song "Biko," about the South African activist who died in detention in 1977, Gabriel paid tribute to the bravery of those who fought the racist ... Djin Djin (Razor & Tie). West African songstress Angelique Kidjo in collaborations with Alicia Keys, Branford Marsalis, Joss Stone, Peter Gabriel, Carlos Santana and Josh Groban, Ziggy Marley - as beautiful as it is ambitious. 18. Zap Mama: Supermoon ... Ballack became the second Chelsea player in a week to be accused of conning an official after Peter Crouch suggested John ... Chelsea player to be sent off yesterday following Ricardo Carvahlo's 80th minute dismissal for a two-footed-lunge on Gabriel ... The cameo by "Easy Rider" Peter Fonda at the end was the rancid cherry on top. 2. "Next" -- Nicolas Cage plays a magician who ... A disastrous attempt to translate Gabriel Garcia Marquez's romantic and idiosyncratic book into a boilerplate historical epic ...
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