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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Petula Clark
Petula Clark was singing "Downtown" over and over until someone changed it and then it was "Help Me Rhonda." I don't remember that artist, but I still remember the sounds. Nancy took my pulse, talked softly with her voice quietly under the din ... But the real gem of the year was "Shout!" (Harrah's), an offbeat program focusing on such 1960s female hit-makers as Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark. Two Cirque du Soleil knock-offs, "iL CiRCo" (Bally's) and "Cirque Shanghai" (Tropicana) offered ... It's as gay (and nearly as good) as pop music gets. It's a de-facto musical about this dramatic tenor's life, who covers songs popularized by Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark and David Bowie with lyrics about love, longing and the lures of the city ... Recruiting his friend, bassist John Paul Jones (who'd played numerous sessions with artists, ranging from Donovan to Herman's Hermits and Petula Clark , along with Page throughout the '60s), Page found two talented novices in singer Robert Plant and ... The show honors The Supremes, Connie Francis, Janis Joplin, Petula Clark and Dusty Springfield. "This music had a lot of energy and a lot of heart," Berry said. "For women, it was a time of change. You can feel it in the music. They didn't sugarcoat it What?) when he did a lip-synch routine to Petula Clark's "Downtown" while flailing around with shopping bags. It was hilarious and horrifying -- horrifying because I knew, deep down, that there was a little bit of that in me, just DYING to get out. I ... They were followed by other great British artists like Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield, The Dave Clark Five and Herman's Hermits. Our nasty media, which detested "foreigners," hailed this as "The British Invasion," like all these new talents from ... "People's Court" judge Joseph Wapner is 88. Actor Ed Asner is 78. Actor John Kerr ("South Pacific") is 76. Singer Petula Clark is 75. Actress Joanna Barnes ("Spartacus," "The Parent Trap") is 73. Actor Sam Waterston ("Law and Order") is 67. Singer ... But like the saccharine Petula Clark song, downtowns are hoping "things will be great" when you go. Now downtowns have or want the role of being the cultural and art center of their communities, replacing big box stores with art galleries and theaters ... Singer Petula Clark is 75. Comedian Jack Burns is 74. Actress Joanna Barnes is 73. Actor Sam Waterston is 67. Pop singer Frida (ABBA) is 62. Actor Bob Gunton is 62. Director-actor James Widdoes is 54. Rock singer-producer Mitch Easter is 53. Actress ...
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