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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Rancid
The animus that's dividing us today is as heavy and foul as rancid lard. When my father left the army following World War II, with only a high school diploma behind his name, he got a position as a designer with one of the Detroit auto companies ... PHILADELPHIA -- As the Maple Leafs winged their way back to Toronto last night after playing seven consecutive road contests, the haunting memories of the past two weeks must have gnawed away at their individual guts like a serving of rancid holiday ... Rancid's "Roots Radicals" mentions a Dekker song on the radio as the 43 bus climbs a hill. Toots & the Maytals, which once backed an early Dekker recording, wrote the song "Desmond Dekker Did It First." Frank Black includes a reference to him in ... Over the years they've shared the stage with Rancid, the Suicide Machines and Voodoo Glow Skulls, to name a few. "We've opened for a lot of bands we're big fans of," Best said. Not so rude: While the band's name was derived from the term "rude boy ... To store: Because nuts have a high fat content (though it's the good kind of fat), they can become rancid if improperly stored, said dietitian Constance Geiger, nutrition consultant for the Western Pistachio Association. What's more, pistachios also ... ALEX Salmond is set to be summoned before a Holyrood committee in the new year to explain his role in the controversy over Donald Trump's £1 billion golf development. First Minister Alex Salmond faces tough questions over meetings held to discuss ... ... that, your failure to appreciate that when I said "innocent until proven guilty" I was referring to this breach, not Labour's, and moreover you readiness to accuse me of dishonesty and suggest that Watcher4's post might be "the ramblings of a rancid ... 1. "I Know Who Killed Me" - It was a bad year for Lindsay Lohan, what with rehab and arrests and tabloid torment, but starring in this brainless thriller was the fetid icing on the rancid cake. 2. "P2" - Playing a stupid psycho-killer in a parking ... Most Commented Stuck to the window of the Jefferson County District Attorney's office in Beaumont is a poster with the admonishment "Never Hurt a Child. Never, Never, Never." It's been a core platform issue for Tom Maness, who's held the office for ... The cameo by "Easy Rider" Peter Fonda at the end was the rancid cherry on top. 2. "Next" -- Nicolas Cage plays a magician who can see two minutes into the future. Which is a useful skill to have, because if I had been able to see the first two minutes ...
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