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: Prismatic
As if building on the "one-shot review" style of The Hasty Papers , Host Publications and The Dirty Goat make space for a messy melding of different traditions, yielding a prismatic window onto new ideas from around the world. More recently, Bratcher ... Working in tropes of fatalistic love previously explored in Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , director Ang Lee does his best to overlay a sense of both depth and humanism on source-material author Eileen Chang's prismatic ... A chandelier made of prismatic tiles casts sunlight entering the atrium into the surrounding workspaces. Reflective panels, a "light wall" made of polished aluminum strips, and the surface of a reflecting pool further enhance the flow of light ... If our national parks are the jewels in the crown of our public lands, in the winter many of these jewels become diamonds: clear white, prismatic, precious. Summer's crowds are a memory, and wildlife has migrated, hibernated, or slowed down for the ... Working in tropes of fatalistic love previously explored in Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , director Ang Lee does his best to overlay a sense of both depth and humanism on source-material author Eileen Chang's prismatic ... Heavy, prismatic drones empower the junkie seduction of the Warlocks' slurry beat, as heard on tracks "So Paranoid," "Slip Beneath," and "Zombie Like Lovers." On this disc, each chord reverberates and lingers, hovering in a hypersaturated noir ... Grand Prismatic Spring is one of Yellowstone National Park's many hot springs and geysers fueled by underground thermal energy. A new study has found that Yellowstone is rising faster than has ever been measured before, due to an influx of magma ... Johnson fires up her torch, dons protective sunglasses, spins the ash into the glass, lays the mix atop layers of color, blends, folds, creates beads and pendants and prismatic pyramids that fracture the morning light into a rainbow of color. And over ... YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo.--One small body of water here goes by the name of Grand Prismatic Spring, and, in some ways, Grand Prismatic might serve to describe this park in its entirety. At just 370 feet across, Grand Prismatic Spring is still ... The nearly solid, "prismatic" batteries have been around for some time but are still new to practical use, said Comerford. He said cellular phone and laptop computer manufacturers have also shown interest in the technology. Another major combat issue ...
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