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: Rarities, Vol I
DEF JAM SESSIONS VOL. 1 The concept is intriguing: a collection featuring outtakes or rarities associated with hit albums from such Def Jam stars as Nas, Ne-Yo, Bobby Valentino, Method Man and Rihanna. But beyond Rihanna’s “Cry,” which is a nice ... EELS Celebrate First Decade With Best of and Rarities Collections First Retrospective, "Meet The EELS: Essential EELS 1996-2006, Vol. 1" (CD+DVD), and First Rarities Collection, "EELS Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased ... Essential Eels Vol. 1, 1996-2006, a CD-plus-DVD set; and the equally self-explanatory Eels Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased - 1996-2006, which comes in the form of two CDs and one DVD. The videos are actually reaching the ... B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006", a set of two CDs and one DVD. The Eels are a pop band in the best sense of the word, and Vol. 2 can't come soon enough. - David Burger DVD Release Fish-out-of-water story ... The concept is intriguing: a collection featuring outtakes or rarities associated with hit albums from such Def Jam stars as Nas, Ne-Yo, Bobby Valentino, Method Man and Rihanna. But beyond Rihanna's "Cry," which is a nice complement to "Unfaithful ... Essential EELS Vol. 1 1996-2006 and EELS Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006. A great place to start for the uninitiated, the Essential set features a Jon Brion remix of “Climbing To the Moon,” a wild cover ... Underground stars the Eels can be seen and heard on “Meet the Eels: Essential Eels: 1996-2006, Vol. 1” or “Eels Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006.” They’re both CD/DVD combos, and the second one has ... Essential EELS 1996-2006, Vol. 1" and "EELS Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities and Unreleased 1996-2006," from -- you guessed it -- EELS. JAN. 22 The highlight: "Pocket Full of Sunshine," Natasha Bedingfield -- This is the expanded U.S ... Also in 1993, Geffen released the rarities collection Lucky Thirteen. The following year, he released Sleeps with Angels, which ... In recognition of his 2000 summer tour, Young released the live album Road Rock, Vol. 1 the following fall, showcasing a ... ... color (er, full black and white, since that's all photographer Anton Corbijn shoots in) hardbound booklet and a CD of rarities ... Package it with: Tony Bennett's standards collection, "Tony Bennett Sings the Ultimate American Songbook Vol. 1" (Sony ...
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