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 Base
Webern's Five Movements for String Quartet, his first instrumental work in Schoenberg's atonal scheme, were as dazzling in their quiet way as any pyrotechnic piece by Paganini, their shifts of rhythm and color fascinating in their variety and ... With an impressive victory over the Nets last night, the Knicks stretched their improbable winning streak to a season-high three games. Afterward, the big question was, why now? After 2 1/2 of the most disappointing months in franchise history, the ... He's very good at using different speeds to change the pace of his attack, so as a defender you never get into a rhythm ... He understands that judging the fan base of a rebuilding city may require patience. He also has seen that New Orleans is more ... A slow-burning ambient sound is the base for clanging bells, duelling lines and a chunky rhythm. The disc ends with Emmanuelle, so named for its softcore-like soundtrack, akin to the French porn franchise of the same name. Songs were recorded live at ... Doug Smith, a professional percussionist and inventor of the "Rhythm by the Numbers" book series, will demonstrate the bongos, congas, timbales, drums, guiro, maracas and claves, and then encourage people to play along with their own drums. The event ... Rutgers fought back from a 10-2 deficit and tied the game at 14, appearing as though it found an offensive rhythm after a few easy fast-break buckets. Hopeful quickly transformed into hopeless, however, when the Scarlet Knights found no answer for ... And he dances to his own rhythm section. So says Mike Arbuckle, assistant general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, who ... Rolen played so hard and with such abandon that he was a fan favourite with all the tough-markers down the third-base line ... But she kept Williams from getting into a rhythm by mixing up her spins and drawing Williams in with drop shots, then sending her scampering back to the baseline with well-placed lobs. "She was a real fighter," said Williams, who missed the last ... Bands like Track Six — which is comprised of Ahmed Ellaithy on lead rhythm guitar, Amr Kadri on drums and percussion, Walid ... lot of attention regarding exposure, as well as the fact that Saqia has built a good reputation [and] as a steady base of ... Rhythm, melody, harmony, and form; and the cook has four flavor profiles with which to work: Sweet, salty, sour, and bitter ... Stop there and you’ve got a great base for soup or stew. At the next exit is a basic brown sauce, also known as espagnole ...
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