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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Quadrophenia
Waiting Room Loung, Jake's Cigars and Spirits and Homy Inn, October 14, 2007 - A small crowd gathered at Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St., to watch a free screening of the film "Quadrophenia." Next door, a few braved the rain at Jake's Cigars and ... Pete Townshend was the guitarist and primary songwriter for the Who from 1964 to 1982, also participating in the group's occasional reunions after its formal breakup. Best-known for his conceptual works, he wrote Tommy and Quadrophenia for the band ... They don’t look the type to tolerate a bunch of teenage detritus still worshipping the Quadrophenia years. They look like filthy, cracked-out thieves. Particularly this short, wrinkled bastard with tattoos on his earlobes. He nods at us and then ... He adds, "Let's just say it's not going to be the next Will Ferrell film... My screenplay goes back to the time when people were getting it right - That'll Be The Day and Quadrophenia. Those are my models." 12/11/2007 22:38 Also see: ROLLING STONES - ... Favorite albums: “Quadrophenia,” The Who; “L.A. Woman,” The Doors; “Pet Sounds,” The Beach Boys; “Propeller,” Guided by Voices; “If I Should Fall From Grace with God,” The Pogues. • What They’d Pay: “Every time I see a copy ... Pete Townsend took a break to work on concept album ‘Quadrophenia’ featuring up and coming artists at the time like Sting and Toyah Wilcox. This was also turned into a film in 1979 starring (among others) Ray Winstone and Phil Daniels. Famed for ... So we get a huge chunk of 1971's 'Who's Next' and a smattering of 'Quadrophenia' tracks, which is when things start to get really hairy. John Entwhistle tags on a rubbish bass solo at the end of '5:15' which would surely have made the movie's principal ... A pale, shrunken woman in a baggy hospital gown, surgical stockings and trainers, with a catheter bag at her ankle, stared back at the actress who made a living from playing glamour parts: Steph in the cult movie Quadrophenia, Debs in the television ... ... It created sound you can only get by smashing instruments. Like Harrison Birtwistle got it from hoovers or boiling kettles. WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN The early Seventies marked a purple patch with Live At Leeds and Who’s Next and Quadrophenia. He returned to the U.S. in 1996, playing the Godfather in the Who's Quadrophenia revival and he found time to deliver a new single, the definitive reading of "The House of the Rising Sun" set to the most heart-stopping Glitter beat yet. "Rock and ...
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