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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Qawwali
Gaudi + Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, "Dub Qawwali" The pure, booming voice of the late Sufi Muslim Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is transformed by being paired with Italian DJ Gaudi's deep reggae grooves. Purists might balk, but they're probably ... Photo by Jason Chua ( Expand Photo ) Nikhil Bumb '08 and other dancers from Naacho perform a Qawwali, a devotional dance characterized by energetic clapping, at the Religious Life Council's "Performing the Sacred" yesterday. The album has 10 wonderful songs blended with genres such as rock, Sufi, folk, qawwali, waltz, ballad, lounge, party, trance and ramp. There is a blend of Western and Indian music too. "It’s a special album dedicated to my Guruji. I have fun songs ... There will also be a food and crafts market with foods from the three faith cultures and music from the London Jewish Male Choir, IDMC Gospel Choir and the Ameer Khan Qawwali Group. Contemporary Sufi dancer Zia Azazi will also perform a whirling ... The programme was presided over by Sant Gian Dev Singh, chief of Nirmal Panchayat Akhara (Kankhal). Kuldip Kadar presented qawwali, while Saida Begum and folk singers Gurpal Singh Pal and other presented Sufiana kalam on the occasion. ... Saeed found that people abroad do not know what is going on in the field of classical music in Pakistan even if they do recognize Pakistan for Qawwali and pop. “The Indian media, too, had painted a portrait of Pakistan as a land of terrorism,” he ... Muazzam (left) and Rizwan Mujahid Ali Khan’s delivery is spontaneous. PAKISTANI qawwali singer Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan may no longer be with us, but his music lives on in his two nephews, Rizwan and Muazzam Mujahid Ali Khan. Calling themselves ... Her moves on ‘Allah Hoo’, the qawwali of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, were immaculate and precise. The amphitheatre resounded with tabla beats, ghungroos and shouts of encouragement from the audience. The third performance was by an Italian ... A phenomenally talented artiste, Rais Anis Sabri is a sixth grade student from Jalalabad, Uttar Praesh, who is currently making waves in the world of Sufi Qawwali music. Son and disciple of Rais Sabri, who in turn is a disciple of ... Rahat Fateh Ali Khan jars your senses with his highly impressive singing in “ O Re Piya ”, a melancholic romantic song with the flavour of a qawwali. The song begins with a haunting melody on flute and keeps flitting between western beats and dholki
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