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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Porno For Pyros
The guy should write a book, but that would detract from what he’s been doing better than everyone else for more than three decades—holding down the low end for groups such as the Minutemen, fIREHOSE, the Stooges, Porno for Pyros, Hellride and Dos Since its stellar opening in 1993, the world-famous Viper Room has hosted the likes of Johnny Cash, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Stone Temple Pilots, Bruce Springsteen, Oasis, Counting Crows, Lenny Kravitz, Pearl Jam, Iggy Pop, Porno for Pyros as ... West Indian Girl — 4th & Wall (Milan) infectious, black-light electronic pop sitting nicely on the shelf between Porno For Pyros and The Dandy Warhols. Witchcraft — The Alchemist (Rise Above) dude – throw your horns in the air for these groovy ... The first big band of the evening set was Satellite Party , Perry Farrell’s most recent incarnation of Jane’s Addiction, or Porno for Pyros. It’s hard to deny how hard Farrell tries to please his fans, many of whom had a very good time, even if ... The traveling, multi-genre festival ran for seven years and was a forerunner to present day cross-country jaunts like Warped, Family Values and OzzFest. Following Jane's demise, Farrell and bandmate Stephen Perkins formed Porno for Pyros. It recorded ... The quartet-plus-one features Jane’s Addiction/Porno for Pyros drummer Stephen Perkins, Minutemen/fIREHOSE/Stooges bassist Mike Watt, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, trumpet player Willie Waldman (who’s recorded with Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur) and ... Porno For Pyros - Packin' (wow, haven't heard this in like 10 years). _____ Towson, Md.: Any inkling that the 'Skins will try to use Sean Taylor as a WR in the red zone? Jason La Canfora: We've seen it before and it makes sense to ... They played their first concert in eight years at the Coachella Festival in America, and have been touring on-and-off ever since. Rage last played the Big Day Out in 1996, alongside Porno For Pyros, Elastica and The Prodigy. The full Big Day ...
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