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: Portishead
Raz B is missing! No, he's found! A revenge plot? Will Chris Stokes Sue? All is a day's rumors (or facts)! See below! Now, let me see and figure out how to say this. This stuff is crazy. There are rumors all over the place. First and foremost, there ... Between Salaam Remi scalping "Apache" for Nas and Portishead's bongoless cover on a pink 45, 2002 was a good year for reimagining the B-boy classic. And it's been another banner year for ass. But "Pussy Galore" rubs up against being a "commercial ... Song: "Hi" Artist: Psapp CD: The Only Thing I Ever Wanted Genre: Electro-Folk NPR.org , July 19, 2006 - The latest and twinkliest in a line of British male-female electronic pop acts (see also: Portishead, Everything but the Girl), Psapp specializes ... When the noirish atmospheres and narcotic beats of downtempo electronica first surfaced in the early 1990s, a broad audience embraced the hazy hip-hop sounds made by the likes of Massive Attack, Portishead, and the Bay Area's own DJ Shadow. Before ... Fans of Portishead and Joe Henry will be enticed by "Fox Hunting," a steady ladder of heavy reverb where Manglos and Dwyer climb in a slow rhythm of melancholy vocals. The near-five minute "The Inner Party" feels like a noir detective story narrated ... The key to the boardroom, as monolithic bands like Oasis found, was to push the guitars up in the mix, crank the gain, and sing about the locals. (Rhino could easily release a second box chronicling the groundbreaking bands (Portishead, Chemical ... ... Filter's Top 10 Of 2007, Day... News: Filter's Top 10 of 2007, Day... News: Jammin' Teams Up With Gibson... Media: Tokyo Police Club, Nature Of... News: Silversun Pickups Release... News: Animal Collective, The Shins,... News: Portishead Sets UK Release ... Backed by low-fi piano, guitar, drums and electronics, her stage presence recalled both Neko Case and Portishead. Evolutionary Jazz Band member Jesse Johnson's Gulls formed the perfect end to the set, taking Repp's sultry reflections and the bubbling ... At first, it's not the kind of band you'd think would be any good; their bearing indicates the group is one of those generic Portishead wannabes. But as they ease into a new song, it's clear they've got something. Though a little raw, they shine up ... Six protesters chained themselves to a car parked near the entrance to BIA offices in Portishead. Police said they were monitoring the "peaceful" blockade, which was on private land. Phillipa Brian, 27, a protester, said: "This morning we prevented a ...
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