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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Richie Hawtin
So when is Richie Hawtin going to finally contract and disappear altogether? That's not intended unkindly--it just seems sort of logical, the obvious end point of a noble life's work. Not just his, either: As the head of, first, the 8 label and now M ... Other acts that make this year special include Swedish troubadours Peter Bjorn and John, The Arcade Fire unveiling their new material, and phenoms-in-their-own-ways Konono No. 1, Lupe Fiasco, and Richie Hawtin. Also, I don't want to miss another ... Bell was a significant player in the so-called second wave of Detroit techno, when a wide range of fledgling artists, such as Richie Hawtin , John Acquaviva , Stacy Pullen and Bell, began to retool and re-shape the digital world at their fingertips. (And ... In 1996, Richie Hawtin, then of Windsor, was among a handful of techno producers attempting to resize the global dance party to fit inside listeners' heads. Wolfgang Voigt was at it in Cologne, while Berliners Mark Ernestus and Mortitz von Oswald ... Other international superstar DJs, such as Richie Hawtin and John Acquaviva, have invested as well. "I find myself with a lot of my free time on either planes or in hotel rooms or on the go, but still with an Internet connection," Hawtin said ... Dice's few spare yet wickedly bouncy singles have been released on the labels of genre stars like Richie Hawtin, Sven Väth, and Josh Wink. Fans of those artists' epic dance floor tracks and DJ sets won't be disappointed when Loco Dice is joined by ... And here's one that sounds like fun: DJ Southside and Corbin Davis as old Richie Hawtin vs. new Richie Hawtin. Well, you get the idea … At 1846 Michigan Ave., Detroit. For more info, go to bangtech12.com . So long, Detroit I'm never happy to report that ... But he also creates panoramic electronica that sounds like Daniel Lanois vibing with Thom Yorke and Richie Hawtin -- the antidote to today's plethora of minimal DJ tools. Trentemoller's debut, The Last Resort , was proclaimed one of last year's ... ... does under his own name has earned Dear a high profile in indie circles, and his tracks as Audion made him famous in club land, his False material is his most personal, as evidenced by this summer's 2007, an under-the-radar release on Richie Hawtin's ... On the contrary, he raves about techno DJ Richie Hawtin and Chilean- German star Ricardo Villalobos, especially his lengthy 'microhouse' tracks. 'Dance music is more vibrant now than it has been for a long time; new technology is enabling people to ...
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