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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Queen

Australian pop star Kylie Minogue and the professor who created Dolly the sheep are among the prominent figures who have received awards from Queen Elizabeth II in her annual New Year Honors list. Kylie Minogue battled back to health after suffering ... Most of the 56-minute tape dealt with Iraq, apparently al-Qaeda's latest attempt to keep supporters in Iraq unified at a ... that ate entertainment 8 Commentary: Bhutto failed to... 9 How did Pakistan's Bhutto die? 10 Kylie honored by Britain's Queen ... She'll be remembered not only for covering so many high-profile events - visits by Queen Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela, and Pope John Paul II, the Blizzard of '78 and the Red Sox' World Series win in 2004 - but for her notorious 1990 interview with ... The question's taken up by his Houston socialite pal, an iron magnolia by the name of Joanna Herring, played by Julia Roberts in outfits that take her halfway to Texas drag queen. She and Charlie enjoy a little discreet hey-hey and she indoctrinates ... I'm excited to meet The Queen,' he tells me. 'I don't think I've ever met British royalty before.' Will he bow for Her Majesty? 'Sure, I will pay attention to protocol - I can bow.' The band are also finalising plans for a forthcoming UK tour ... It has been watched more than 14 million times and attracted more comments than almost any clip ever submitted to YouTube. The site's popularity has prompted US presidential candidates to debate on YouTube. In Britain, the Queen's Christmas message ... I'd like a shot at being Queen and he isn't choosy, so maybe with a couple of mini Champagnes in him, I might get myself ermined-up. Which public figure do you think is most overrated? I'm not entirely sure Jordan and her husband deserve to be ... In October this year a 12 year old boy was rushed to hospital in after being attacked by a Staffordshire bull terrier. He was taken by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead but was later transferred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in ... Miss Minogue, who successfully fought cancer last year, is not British but is allowed to be recognised by the Queen because Australia is part of the Commonwealth. She became known in the UK playing Charlene in the soap opera Neighbours, enjoyed a high ... I can foresee a time, in about 30 years, when the House of Windsor is going through a rocky patch, and when a sensible, jolly girl like Queen Kate is just the person to put it back on its feet. For my part, I intend to take the self-denying ordinance ...
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