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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Rachael Yamagata
Loved the song at the very end when Neela watched Gallant leave — totally fit the mood. For those of you wondering, it was "I'll Find a Way" by Rachael Yamagata . You're welcome. — Dave Anderson Got a comment for one of our Watercooler writers ... It helps with the procrastination of clarity and perspective." — Rachael Yamagata "Other than my two front teeth, a Red Rider carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle, and getting troops the eff out of Iraq, all I want for Christmas is a ... Notable guest performers include Ben Kweller, Rachael Yamagata, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. In April 2007, the band released "Cassadaga" on independent label Saddle Creek Records. The new album features a more mature collection of songs ... Rachael Yamagata and Mandy Moore - Chicago's Yamagata is among the best young singers and songwriters around, and definitely one to keep an eye on. She also helped Mandy Moore show she's more than a pop tart also-ran by co-writing with Moore on "Wild ... The good karma carries through to Lee's latest, "Ripe," which features Zen-like chimers "Numb," "What Would Jay-Z Do?" and "Love Me Like the World is Ending," plus stellar cameos from Mandy Moore, Charlotte Martin, Rachael Yamagata, Good Charlotte's ... Wilson has also collaborated with such acclaimed artists as Mike Doughty, Rachael Yamagata, Jewel, Jason Mraz and others. Wilson’s first solo effort, Free Life began as a self-produced project in the Twin Cities and was finished in Los Angeles by ... Desperate to distance herself from the distractions of New York and Los Angeles, she listened to the advice of friend Rachael Yamagata - now her opening act - and went to rural Woodstock, N.Y., to record the new album. Co-written with Yamagata ... Produced by John Alagia (of Dave Matthews Band fame) and co-written with Rachael Yamagata, Chantal Kreviazuk, The Weepies and Michelle Branch, among others, the two years in the making Wild Hope is a collection of pop/folk songs that, as Moore ...
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