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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Recoil
Kids have no trouble getting guns, and when they fight back, as we have taught them to do, we recoil in horror at the consequences and convict them as we would adult hard-core criminals. We allow our children to watch murder, torture and rape on ... The recoil is negligible, even with the magnum chamber, and the single-action (requiring the shooter to manually cock the hammer before the gun will fire) is a great safety factor. A new Ruger Single Six with a 6 1/2 -inch barrel will set you back ... Both guests were at last night’s Calvin Klein -hosted “First Look” party—held to celebrate the opening of the Bowery’s New Museum—but the once-lappy couple avoided each other like SARS. Sadly, we couldn’t be there to recoil. But Jim Shi was ... A tribute to Mark Lokan, the original "Music Bum," will be at 1 p.m. Jan. 27 at the Horse & Crown Pub, 5230 Commercial Way, Spring Hill. Several bands have already signed up to perform during the concert fundraiser, including Prospect, Recoil ... I recoil in horror. My world has collapsed. I was 16 at the time, and studying biblical scripture for A-level. Attending a co-ed convent, I took the opportunity to learn about one of the most important books ever written from someone who had dedicated ... They were also asked why they recoil from the city and state that had been their home. Inclusion of non-dominant groups by political leaders is a sensible effort towards entrenching democratic politics in the state and building the foundations of ... Such children are often the butt of mean jokes by peers as their incomprehension of figures, which normal children find easy, makes them recoil into a shell. For Amit, a 10-year-old, maths makes his head go into a blur. It has been so since he was ... Its head bowed under a crown of thorns, a bloody wound carved into its rib cage, the statue was real enough to make a child ache and recoil from the ghastly implications of crucifixion. Marble basins with holy water lined the walls of the church and ... You either adore this compendium of Beatles songs or you recoil from it: I'm firmly in the former category. Julie Taymor, in collaboration with British screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, has created a hymn to the 1960s, a delirious ... At what price will oil consumers begin to recoil? Many thought it would happen at $50 a barrel, then $60, then $70. Until there is a clear answer, and demand begins to taper off, Deutsche Bank's Sieminski said the best forecasting method may be the ...
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