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: Rhythm and Blues
Tommy Castro must have had them in mind when he formed the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue. San Francisco-based vocalist-guitarist Castro fronts this configuration, backed by his touring band, with Chicago guitar firebrand Ronnie Baker Brooks ... With Rebennack on piano and Neville singing, they've recorded a batch of vintage doo-wop and rhythm & blues songs. For years, the idea never progressed beyond, "We should do something together." Last fall, they finally resolved to make it happen. The ... It pulses with jazz rhythm, it cries out with the spirit of the blues, it roars like a gospel choir on a glorious Sunday morning. But is it really Handel's "Messiah"? The folks who each year stage "Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz-Gospel Messiah ... I was there right before the end of the race," said Sharysse, who is now 15 and has interests that range from singing rhythm and blues tunes to, yes, running cross country. "I was cheering for him and going crazy. I could see him coming, and he did ... Sistah Blue Rhythm Room Sat., January 26, 9:00pm Central Phoenix Jazz-Blues-Swing Randy Sparks and the New Christy Minstrels Higley Center for the Performing Arts Sat., January 26, 7:00pm Higley Folk-Roots ... I think it was the circumstances of my sisters, modern radio, Dick Clark and everything else that was taking place at that time - Motown, rhythm and blues, the English Invasion, everything. We had a different ear, or we were listening to this new ... ... is dressed for partying with its colourful spangles and stars and giant clock, but it's not quite a knees-up yet. Jools is sitting at his piano eating a sandwich, surrounded by technicians and session singers, while his 18-piece Rhythm and Blues ... From Motown to rock-n-roll to rhythm and blues, the oldies are coming to the Thunder Bay Recreation Center. True North Radio Network is beginning another series of concerts, similar to last year’s Summer Concert Series, that will feature four ... ... while Cincinnati trio Heartless Bastards' All This Time is buoyed by singer/songwriter Erika Wennerstrom's big voice and rumbling rhythm section. Another Cincinnati power trio, Buffalo Killers, wears its late-era Beatles and other '60s psych-blues ... Just when you thought karaoke had kicked the last signs of life out of 'New York, New York', it opens this record like a long-lost rhythm and blues classic, powered with élan by her Dirty Delta Blues band, who create marvellously fluid musical ...
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