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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Richard Ashcroft
See Aerosmith , see Bob Mould , Richard Ashcroft , Spiritualized or even Queens of the Stone Age - since the man who took all the drugs all the time left; they’ve been terrible. David Bowie ’s been clean for 25 years, which is pretty much when he ... But just as they hit their creative peak the boys fell out and left Richard Ashcroft, 36, to make a bunch of very average solo albums. They said it wasn’t about the cash but in the summer the quartet miraculously kissed and made up. A tour sold ... Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Jones and Pete Salisbury will return to the studio after a summer break to complete their next album. They will then embark on an arena tour with a total of six UK shows in early November beginning with two dates ... Townhall Columnists: Adam Thierer Adrian Dove Al Cardenas Alan Reynolds Alan Sears Allison Aldrich Allison Kasic Amanda Carpenter Amy Ridenour Andrew Tallman Ann Coulter Anne Morse Anne Yasmine Rassam Armstrong Williams Ashley Emans Ashley Herzog ... In such circumstances, the local branch must inform the Electoral Commission and its own party chiefs of the funds. SNP councillor Richard Lyle, convener of the party's Hamilton branch, said last week that "as far as I can recollect" the Electoral ... Josh Marshall: John Ashcroft a Hero: Fuhgitaboutit. This is, after all, the same Ashcroft who ... catching terrorists, but is about the same kinds of things that it was about back during the COINTELPRO days of Richard ... Deputy City Attorney Richard Anthony confirmed last month that all the businesses were in violation of city law. Since the ... Ashcroft that found "the possession and sale of medical marijuana remained illegal under federal law, notwithstanding ... Ex-Attorney General (R) Says Politics Drove Federal Prosecution Richard L. Thornburgh, who served as attorney general under ... Ashcroft Tells of Surveillance Disputes Former attorney general John D. Ashcroft told the House intelligence committee ... The most recent cycle—not that this isn't a consistent undertone—began for me with a Washington Post column by Richard ... congressmen whether they would "send" one of their offspring, as if they had the power to do so, or the right? (John Ashcroft ... In 1964, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” a book widely read because its thesis was then so new and startling: that a “sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness and conspiratorial fantasy” was ...
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