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: Rheingold
Howard Rheingold, a blogger and author of books about online communities, recently sent all his Facebook friends a message reminding them that he doesn't actually know everyone on his list. Rather than be selective about whom he accepts as friends ... The Washington Opera will present its first complete performances of Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung" in November 2009. The company will present three cycles of this monumental work comprising four operas: "Das Rheingold," "Die Walkure ... Shkolnik, Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, Shkolnik & Mccartney LLP; and Seth R. Lesser, Locks Law Firm. Representing plaintiffs in the Puerto Rico lawsuit are John F. Nevares, Smith & Nevares; Camillo K. Salas, III, Salas & Co.; Richard J. Arsenault ... It's open to all, it's judged by a panel of twelve diverse talents in the pet industry, and the voting is highly addictive," says CEO Ted Rheingold. "We love that it just keeps getting bigger year after year." Show sponsors include 9Lives(R), Pup ... It's pretty wonderful," said Howard Rheingold, author of Virtual Communities: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier , and a fan of the site. "ASCII art. Who knows about ASCII art these days? But it was a big deal in BBSs and Usenet.... We tend to ... Sun Microsystems is moving fast into what it calls the Participation Age , or at least talking about it a lot, Howard Rheingold notes in his Smart Mobs blog. “Sharing is good for our business,” Sun President Jonathan Schwartz said recently in his ... Fairfax, basically, is not immune from what’s going on in the rest of the country,” said Ira Rheingold, executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates. To blame for the rash of foreclosures — which grew in Fairfax County ... Some names to begin with are Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Review and Howard Rheingold. Here’s what he had to say in the intro to the Millenium WEC more than ten years ago: “The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog integrates the best tools from the past ... I ain't boarding without a bag of Olde London cheese waffles, a six-pack of Rheingold chug-a-mugs and a bottle of Piney River Apple Wine. Email Leslie Rutledge at info@afyr.org if you are interested. She promises: " The Huck-a-Bus will be a fun trip that ... Here they are: * Howard Rheingold 's "Smart Mobs" helps makes sense of the technologies and cultural trends driving what he considers the "next social revolution." * Steven Johnson 's "Emergence" entertainingly outlines the strange qualities of bottom-up ...
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