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: Play favourite melodies
... cumbia relies on accordions, guitars, brass and singing for its infectious melodies ... When I was a child I learned to play guitar and I learned traditional styles ... The song Tres on my new album has a vallenato sound and I think that is my favourite ... Herra Hidro are a Leicester-based trio mixing the tuneful indie-pop melodies of ... Kindly agreeing to our terms and conditions – i.e. they show up, play, and ... can’t really hear it ourselves it’s nice to be compared to one of your favourite ... ... label indie bands, not boys jousting with stadium riffs, juggling angular melodies ... Biffeeee!" They play loads of new songs from their chart-bothering new album and ... lovin' hack to my left remarks: "move over Ash, we have a new trusty favourite rock ... I would litt. give my 2 legs and play in a freakin wheel chair for the rest of my life just to be able to play half as well and with half sd much SOUL as JOHN MAYER. You people make me sick, and I would put MAYER up against JIMI today if he was ... ... middle of their set, Youthmovies announce: “If you want to go watch Foals play ... into his own mic lead-made web, convulsing as they fire through crowd favourite and ... promising, young and energetic, what they lack at the moment are the strong melodies ... The duo’s lacerating debut, † , was notable for its Gothic melodies, buzz-saw ... Kelley has since signed on to play Davis in a biopic.) Cormac McCarthy. After a ... Nobel Prize. In a year when 74-year-old Philip Roth was the odds-on favourite for ... We just like to play," explains Ira . "A lot of it is aimless. Often we'll be ... hours and hours of cassette recordings of our practices, picking out ideas, melodies ... Our favourite was played in a John Coltrane , free-jazz style; we did another, biker ... We wanted to strip the songs down to their component parts: rhythm and melodies, and ... When we play live now, we've refined it quite a bit. We just played this show in ... Pretty much all of my favourite songs, well, especially when I first started getting ... ... acts is that they meld their might with killer pop hooks and stirring melodies that ... Keen to play, keen to promote, keen to do things their own way, the quartet’s ... you come together; what you were doing, musically, prior to OAO; what your favourite ... Vegetables instrumental in some swede melodies ... carrot recorders, aubergine castanets and the multi-vegetable "cucumberphone" to play contemporary, jazz and classical music. Beetroothoven is a favourite ...
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