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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Rick Astley
We are talking Rick Astley levels of audio/visual dissonance. Based on the records (the new I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being the Master is excellent, though 2005's Señor Smoke is probably their best), I had him ... Her success was quickly followed by a new wave of idols, including Debbie Gibson, New Kids on the Block and Rick Astley. And by the mid- to late '90s, with Kurt Cobain and grunge dead, a door opened wide for teens to fill again. Starting in 1997, the ... Everyone froze,” said ABC publicist Amy Astley. As the show cut to a commercial, Osmond started to rise and was helped by ... Fraser is reprising his role as explorer Rick O’Connell in “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.” Maria Bello plays ... In 1987, Oliver North fessed up to Iran Contra, Rick Astley topped the charts and Wolf was promoted to museum director. She had been wanting a new challenge and was relieved to find one within the museum so she could stay with her co-workers. "There's ... ... acutely anxious; sometimes they really are out to get you — and a faux Radiohead new-album announcement that shuffled you toward a YouTube page flying a pretty hee-hee-larious music video for furiously hip-swiveling '80s pop star Rick Astley's ... ... A clock on the page radioheadlp7.com had been counting down to 08:00BST on Saturday, purporting to take readers to the launch page for the band's new album. However, a prankster was behind the page, with users taken to the YouTube page for Rick Astley ... After the publicist's declaration, the countdown sped up Friday and the site eventually switched over to a video from British singer Rick Astley. Radiohead has been the subject of many recent rumors and reports regarding the fact the band is not ... Indeed, over the course of today, the clock sped up and the site is now broadcasting a vintage video from U.K. pop crooner Rick Astley. RadioheadLP7.com launched amid a string of coded messages on the band's official Web site , which have featured ... ... McClure, Chris Ryan, Toby Litt, Francis Wheen, Irma Kurtz, Paige Toon, Andrew O'Hagan, Sarah Salway, Ann Pilling, Judy Astley ... Tunzelmann, Miranda Seymour, Jonny Glynn, Laura Barber, Richard Dowden, Anne Marsella, Martyn Waites, Milly Johnson, Rick ... In Kingston, London, '80s popster Rick Astley was spied shopping in John Lewis, sparking memories of the hoax website countdown for Radiohead's album, which played an Astley number when it reached zero, instead of revealing new album details . In ...
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