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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Pizzicato Five
Five Roses (Secret City). Montreal's Graham Van Pelt turns Brian Wilson-inspired lushness into indie-pop perfection. 10 ... Above and Beyond (Justin Time). Bang uses the violin's timbre, range and pizzicato effects to voice deep emotions, with super ... ... the audience, then set out for the next 2 1/2 hours to prove the point with a rock-show worthy cast that included five ... the theme and the melody introduced by the piccolo then carried through by the flutes while the string section played pizzicato ... ... shivering bass, a droning bowed guitar, and Birgisson's angelic, keening falsetto build to an orchestral anthem with pizzicato ... These tracks all come from pianist McCoy Tyner's five most recent CDs on the Telarc label. The variety and the strong ... ... set is notorious for featuring dancing apes, laser light shows, and classical interludes. The Sensuous Synchronized Show will include visuals and lighting that are synched to the music. The Cornelius Group will include Hirohisa Horie ( Pizzicato Five ... Spray the ice with a garden hose for five minutes. Wait 10 to 15 minutes until the water freezes. Spray again. Keep this ... Jumps and turns, of course, and spiky digs into the ice that simulate the pizzicato of certain ballet steps. Also, the arms and ... Five Movements for String Quartet" by Anton Webern got off to a false start, violist Neithard Resa stopping play after just ... The Berliners were able to handle all of the unusual effects, such as ponticello and pizzicato, with ease. A colorful and ... By the time Sony released Greenberg's first CD in August 2006, he had already written more than 100 works, including five ... Greenberg's concerto starts out in a mysterious hush - a soft pizzicato, a nervous tremolo, a piano chord, and then the piccolo ... Another reason was a program emphasizing five works by younger Chinese-American composers -- thus a ``musical'' Dim Sum ... But Pizzicato for String Quartet (2001) by Vivian Fung featured fetching passages of pizzicato, brilliantly played by the Yings Strauss is masterful in the abundance of textures he finds in the 10 violins, five violas, five cellos and three basses ... From the dialogue among oboe, bassoon and flute in the first movement to the clarinet over pizzicato strings in the second to ... Intimate moments of repose were well executed, especially when pizzicato (plucked) strings interacted with the woodwinds. The ... Five more musical offerings will be served up monthly this year, featuring American, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Sacred ...
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