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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Raised Fist

I raised a very American fist and shouted "Yes!" when I heard the news of the deaths of Saddam Husseins's sadistic sons - and then, for days, I had to live with what I had done. For one brief, arrogant American moment I had celebrated the deaths of ... Born and raised in Port Said, where he has worked his entire life, El-Lamei is little short of the settlement’s unofficial ... he just didn’t like him, grabbed my father by the shoulders and tried to throw him off the ship. My father made a fist and ... This isn't over yet," he says, extending his fist as an alternative to shaking hands he fears could be carrying the lethal ... Ebola's grisly symptoms have provided fertile ground for thrillers and raised concerns it could be used as a biological weapon ... Fintan's new heart is the size of a plum, the shape of the tiny fist with which he grabbed his daddy's fingers minutes ... More than $12,000 was raised to help the Schiltz family. "To see how little Fintan has affected our friends and the community ... To make creamy scrambled eggs and uni , he starts with the freshest eggs from chickens raised on local small farms, and ... I feel virtuous and it allows me, of course, to put my fist into the cookie jar when no one's looking. At Formaggio Kitchen ... Ala'a said, raising and lowering his fist. "I'm here now. You're fine," the captain said. Over the next 10 months, the unit ... Scott was raised as an evangelical Christian; he attended law school with a goal of public service, running unsuccessfully for ... Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for 13 years, jailed many political opponents – others simply vanished ... But the partnership foundered when Russia raised gas prices. Belarus's weak economy relies on inexpensive energy supplies from ... Lebanon, chairwoman of committee that organized ULTRApartythat raised $25,000 for the Autism Center of Pittsburgh. More than 2 ... The work was on display at Create-A-Frame/Handworks Gallery and shown during the town's Fist Friday street fair. The display ... ... was as good as it got, shrill and crass and defiant and triumphantly hideous, commanding a legion of leather-draped fist ... lotta time onstage Thursday night complaining about how small the stage and the dressing room are, and I spy a cane raised up ... Fanene, while on foot patrol in Kirkuk in September, stepped on a fist-size land mine, heard a pinging noise and ... The blast blew off part of his left pinky and left him with ugly purple, raised scars on his left leg and arm ...
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