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: Psychedelic Cowboy
... 45 series is fabled, launched in 1933 as a custom order for Gene Autry, then America's most beloved singing, acting cowboy ... It confesses its `60s electric guitars looked and sounded square in a psychedelic era. It acknowledges the bad years of 1971 ... In 1969, Josh was 12, crazed with excitement about The Beatles, long hair, guitars, jazz and psychedelic paints that transformed his cute little boy's bedroom with the cowboy bedspreads into a teenage den," Lowenthal said. "He was beginning to bring ... ... faux-cowboy shirts in the window. "It's a musical genre I love, but it became apparent there was nothing we could add to it," he said. So his band added fuzzier guitars and moody keyboards and made its pedal-steel/slide-guitar parts more psychedelic ... I had never forgotten this case: the man in the "psychedelic cap," as it was written at the time. It was written that she was ... Contrary to the old cowboy movie adage that "You can't take the law into your own hands", the complete adult can not not ... And as the Skygreen Leopards Skyband blew minds at a handful of low-key shows around town, the pastoral, psychedelic folk of ... That's because this new sound — or feeling, really — which Disciples documents, sure ain't some retro, hippie cowboy ... Standing out, though, are the Charlatans, duded up in vintage cowboy and city-slicker gear, the only band here that most ... to get their hippie on, and when millions more turned on, figuratively or literally, to what was being called psychedelic music We boast a rich and diverse treasure trove of musical talent -- from cowboy hero Corb Lund to hip-hop sensation Cadence ... He's a member of a "thousand bands" -- as he puts it -- including The Wet Secrets and The Whitsundays, a psychedelic retro-pop ... ... profile, and the shaggy hair and dress sense of the New York Dolls: this afternoon he's wearing a floppy black cowboy hat ... It's like a psychedelic Jungle Book." Then a glazier knocks on the door. Somehow or other, then, we're in the basement of a cake ... ... the time of day before, it’s refreshing to know that not only did they encourage Top Shop to start stocking cowboy ... since one Lucius Twilight took over on lead vocals, but the DC quartet grind out the most twisted, mutant-blues psychedelic ...
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