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: Ra Vinyl
Jan. 25 - The Virgins, Ra Ra Riot, Montreal, Casa de Popolo. - Delvin and Darko, Ghislain Poirer, XXXChange, Montreal ... Jan. 23 - 24 - Hayden, Keswick., CBC's Vinyl Cafe. Jan. 24 - Tony Lee, Belleville, Loyalist Theatre. - Classic Albums Live ... And that was huge .The locals went absolutely apeshit for Revival of the Shittiest —first the limited-edition CD-R in 2003 (which everybody wanted, but nobody seemed to own), then the beautiful vinyl reissue in '04: It sounded like Sun Ra spinning ... He prices used vinyl and invariably sets aside a stack of the records that seem interesting to him. "I've been collecting ... And the Chicago school: the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Anthony Braxton, and Sun Ra. So that was where I was headed." This ... But Muller, 43, can justify his CD and vinyl bills. They're tax-deductible, as anybody who walks into the ICA over the next ... with trees, grass, and autumn leaves, as well as an underground area in which Muller has placed a tribute to Sun Ra. ... He encouraged me to buy the album on vinyl, naturally, and it remains one of the warmest listening experiences in my collection ... Japanese music (Hiroyuki Usui), raga (Ravi Shankar), drone (Terry Riley), Beat Zen (Alan Watts' books), free jazz (Sun Ra ... ... Filter TV: Ra Ra Riot @ The Wiltern ... would have just created the biggest and badest pretentious trash talking monster of them all, taunting the poor old vinyl’s ... He watched Friends , Melrose Place , She-Ra , He-Man , G.I. Joe , The Wuzzles , Snorks , Transformers , Thundercats , The Facts of ... has no choice but to grunt a few times, struggle out of his chair, pack up his laptop, toss a few items into his shiny vinyl ... In the 1980s, we had stock cabinets and vinyl floors in our kitchens and laundry rooms," Swegle says. "Today, the kitchen is an entertainment center, with hardwood floors and expensive cabinets. When the dishwasher hose fails, it's more expensive to ... The NFL regular season has come to a close and the Cleveland Browns just missed making the playoffs. A few weeks ago it sure looked like they were in good shape as far as the post season was concerned, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Still ... Welcome to the fifth edition of PapaBear's Vinyl Flashback. It's the most wonderful time of the year in the PapaBear household ... Day after day, I'm more confu-u-sed...Yet I look for the light through the pourin' ra-a-ain...You know that's a game that I ...
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