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: Piano Cascades
Spiraling piano sonnets are juxtaposed against sweeping cascades of grainy synth-washes and agile, yet carefully executed, beat-work. Add in an occasional mid radio station listen-in on a seemingly unfinished conversation and you have an idea of "Of ... Mussorgsky’s “Pictures” began life as a piano suite, inspired by the art of Victor Hartmann, a friend of the composer ... His control of color and melodic line while navigating knuckle-breaking cascades was indeed impressive, although at times his ... ... songs, thanks to silvery cascades of steel guitar and twangy lead lines on songs about the road and the working life. Yet The Whale is no roots-rock album, at least not strictly speaking. Cheyenne balances its earthy instincts with a rolling piano ... Or it could release rumbling cascades of notes, pounding out a stratagem of confidence and assurance. Sometimes Peterson didn ... In fact, the only time Peterson had stopped playing the piano since he'd started at the age of 6 was when he heard a record ... ... remember Josefina trying to learn the piano at their ranch. You really learned a lot about the early era." "I'm sorry if I'm gushing, but she really is one of the favorite authors we've ever had here," said Kathleen Kelly, a librarian at the Cascades ... They have ranged from the wonderful to the barely passable, in every size from a handful of singers with piano to major ... Those cascades of 16th notes (as in For Unto Us a Child Is Born ) were a natural part of the musical vocabulary in those days ... Considering the performance Thursday of the composer's rarely played G Minor Fourth Piano Concerto, Op. 40 by British piano ... Hough rode the piece's mood swings and technical demands like a Derby jockey, offering crashing cascades of notes one minute ... Vibrant songs such as "Leave the Keys in the Door" wrap cascades of noise around the music's chiming core, and even such ... and "Man of the People" are strutting rockers with earthy guitars, while "Up a Tree" is built on jaunty music-hall piano ... It often seemed more symphony than concerto, with the piano a partner in the orchestral texture. Douglas put his superb technique to work, punctuating the drama with electrifying cascades, trills and fistfuls of percussive chords, and did it ... ... to life, a group of carolers and getting into the Christmas spirit; $20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 students; 7:30 p.m.; Cascades ... Musicians from the Central Oregon Symphony will perform harp and piano works; free; harp performance 11 a.m. and piano ...
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