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 Clayderman
Sharma has gained crossover fame in Asia through his collaborations with pianist Richard Clayderman, who has won a huge following with his ubiquitous orchestral pops recordings. In many ways, Sharma is continuing a process that dates back centuries. ... Clayderman has sold more than 70 million records. RADIN SRI GHAZALI finds the pianist as busy as ever, with lady luck on his side, he says, to keep him as popular as ever. WORLD-renowned musician Richard Clayderman will be performing at the Arena of ... I enjoyed the Richard Clayderman concert very much. I have always been a fan and I must say, I am relieved that he is ageing too. A closeup of him on television showed him to have more wrinkles than I thought he had acquired. But I am also here to ... The National Orchestra of Malta continues to celebrate its 10th anniversary with a unique event, this time parting from its standard classical repertoire and featuring celebrity pianist Richard Clayderman. The concert will be held at the ... Another selling CDs of "interpretations'' of songs originally recorded by Julio Iglesias and Richard Clayderman. Ten pesos. Stop four: A pirate DVD of Spider-Man 3. You know the price. Stop five: A folk-rock duo selling copies of their own CD. Yep ... There was a time when this guy would have to submit to a comfy but naff, gin’n’Jag life of golfing casuals, chesterfield sofas, hunting scenes on the walls of his Virginia Water mansion and Richard Clayderman albums playing on the stereo. Not any ... He is also working on an album on the concept of a dejected lover’s journey into death and a sequel to Confluence (with Richard Clayderman on piano). “The bizarre always inspires me,” says the music maker, whose last album Maya was an ode to ... The restaurant is carpeted and audibly draped with never-ending Richard Clayderman-style piano, its generously spaced tables set with regal carved chairs and decorative plates. The place has a dignified formality although things are not too leaden ... For instance I’ve just completed the Confluence (Part Two) with Richard Clayderman and that has elements I haven’t dealt with before. It’s meant for a younger audience and revolves around life and romance. Also, Clayderman dabbles in hip-hop ... A Grand pianist. My parents bought me a velvet suit with huge collars because they loved Richard Clayderman, if you can believe that. Whenever family members visited I’d donn the suit and play my gobbledey-gob on a little toy grand piano. What ...
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