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 Booze
... bells in a snowstorm of distorted hollow-body guitar goodness, amid the bang-on punch of the MacDonald brothers’ rhythm ... Party it up in a hoppin’ bar fuelled by body heat, maybe a little booze and the ol’ never-dying-furnace of rock ’n ... ... spontaneous, booze-fueled jam session. Spencer is his usual over-the-top self, screaming, pleading and snarling his way through 19 tracks that take on every subgenre of the blues. "Primitive" lives up to its name with a bare-bones Bo Diddley rhythm ... Rhythm Collective, 9 p.m., Trovato's, 5013 Underwood Ave., $5, 553-9305 or www.trovatos.com Paria w/ Noah's Ark Was a Spaceship ... Sarah Benck & The Robbers, McKenna's Booze Blues & BBQ, 7425 Pacific St., 393-7427 or www.mckennasbbb.com Mike Butterworth w ... He has been clean for 12 years -- no drugs, no booze, no cigarettes -- and his stocky frame doesn't begin to suggest the ... but the comment dovetails with what he says next, as the first cut from the new CD by Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm ... ... talent scout, an arranger (for Sam Phillips at Sun, among others), a bandleader (with his own group, the Kings of Rhythm ... From Ike's point of view, squinting through the harsh fallout from all that booze and goofy dust, he may have figured that ... Jobs a-plenty, booze flowing in every direction ... all to the rhythm of hot jazz, America's theme music. With several notable exceptions, few jazzers explored the lyrical side of the beat. But McKinney's Cotton Pickers, imported from Ohio in 1927 ... With beer and booze aflow at games in the hands of students and supporters it has turned into a Roman drunken spectacle ... If Montana was ahead near the end of the game, Mike would just slow things down and take the Griz out of their rhythm. The ... Rhythm Room, 21 and older; 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; NextDoor; 548-6398. Casual Thursdays, with Artist Groove Network, 21 and older; 9 p ... Booze Brothers; 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Kelley O'Neil's; 926-1777. Brendan; 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; O'Toole's Irish Pub; 536-4138. Rod Tanu and ... ... unequivocal magnificence either, and fails to inject enough energy into his band’s set to maintain wandering (booze-addled ... that you see at hip-hop shows with our hands – up and down and up and down – and ultimately dances as badly as a rhythm ... ... crowd was mesmerised into silence, but burst into gloriously slurred song for a jolly closing number called ‘Goodbye Booze ... nothing quite working - heartbreaking melodies that disperse as rapidly as they evolve, looped sounds that build shaky rhythm ...
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