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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Quincy Jones
Producer Quincy Jones was a master at this craft, cranking out themes for Ironside , Sanford and Police Woman that are so cool, listening to his box set sometimes feels like channel surfing through Nick at Nite. Some themes even became hit records ... ... spotted on a date with Ryan Gosling . Another hookup: John Krasinski and his "The Office" co-star, Rashida Jones, were spotted arriving at the airport in St. Barths recently, seemingly taking a vacation together. Jones is the daughter of Quincy Jones ... ... Purple," Alice Walker saved every scrap along her journey to becoming one of the leading literary figures of the 20th century. Her literary and personal archive contains many letters from such friends as Toni Morrison, Gloria Steinem, Quincy Jones and ... ... the top jazz headliners. "One of my biggest memories was hearing that Jazz at the Philharmonic ... had signed a young pianist from Canada who played like he ate fire and iron for breakfast," recalled music impresario and record producer Quincy Jones ... Here he is, over 40 years later, playing "Boplicity" at the Montreux Jazz Festival , with Quincy Jones conducting the orchestra. Davis was dead less than three months later. “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” (Witmark demo), Bob Dylan From ... The Dow Jones industrial average rose 6.26 to 13,365.87, after bobbing higher and lower throughout the session. Microsoft ... Quincy Krosby, chief investment strategist at The Hartford, contends the news from growth in Midwest manufacturing to the ... Originally released in the US 25 years ago on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records, Thriller, Michael Jackson's sixth solo album and second with producer Quincy Jones, rocketed the former child-star lead singer for the Jackson 5 into the stratosphere of ... Jazz Master honourees include music impresario Quincy Jones, composer and arranger Tom McIntosh, trumpeter Joe Wilder, the late pianist Andrew Hill and percussionist Candido Camero. The A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Master Award for jazz advocacy will go to ... King, Cat Stevens, King Curtis, Joe Cocker, James Brown, Michael Bolton (yikes!), Roberta Flack, Tom Jones, Quincy Jones, Isaac Hayes, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Jeff Beck, Gil Scott-Heron, Todd Rundgren, Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones and ... Vanessa Williams, Quincy Jones and Loretta Devine were among first-nighters who joined the show's stars - Jeannette Bayardelle; Felicia P. Fields; Michelle Williams; Stu James; LaToya London; Stephanie St. James; and Rufus Bonds Jr. - for the bash ...
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