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: Populism
... and sparked a war of words between him and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe that underlined long-standing concerns among moderate and conservative Latin American leaders. ''The region shouldn't allow Hugo Chávez to export his authoritarian populism ... In Mike Huckabee's new admixture of social conservatism and economic populism? Three primary contests have given three different answers. The Democratic Party, on the other hand, knows exactly what it stands for. Obama, Clinton and Edwards are hardly ... The Democratic proposals are populism run amok. Increased government spending will exacerbate the budget deficit. Because spending hikes move slowly through Congress, their effects typically show up too late - after the recession is over - and often ... Economic populism has been a strong theme among all the Democratic hopefuls and even among some Republicans. The main reason it has not taken off yet is simply that outsourcing has not affected too many people. Jason Kierkegaard of the Peterson ... As I'm walking back along the South Bank, I reflect on how strange it is that populism in the arts can still be a sensitive subject, even after 30 years of Bragg's tele-evangelism. It is a remarkable achievement, whichever way you ... He campaigned on a common-man theme of economic populism, often saying the government has its boot on the face of working-class Americans. "We had a message that has connected and continues to connect with people all over this country who have feared ... Writer Nancy Davis Kho's exploration of the rise and demise of shelter magazines in Wednesday's Home&Garden section points to a broader retrenchment in American society - one that affects not only our homes and gardens but also the very fabric of ... Dobbs, 62, who has evolved from a fairly traditional financial correspondent to a full-throated advocate of economic populism, said he wasn't planning a White House bid, lacking either "the personality or nature to be a politician." But then, in the ... Mike Huckabee, whose strength was centered among the social conservatives who had dominated South Carolina politics, campaigned as an outsider on economic populism and had aimed to win here. "I'll have only one speech in my pocket and that's a ... ... said his wife Deanna, 48, observing that their upscale, solidly Republican town should have been fertile turf for the party's candidates. "I think Romney should have done much better." Both voted for Huckabee, drawn to his message of economic populism ...
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