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: Rift
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday he would remain a thorn in the side of his successor in the run-up to elections, and would continue to speak his mind. Until subdued by heart problems last year, the ... KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia : Malaysia's former top judge accused his predecessor Tuesday of deceit, strengthening suspicions of long-running feuds in the judicial hierarchy. Speculation that senior judges have secretly jostled for power became public ... The killing came a day after thousands of machete-wielding youths hunted down Kikuyus in western Kenya’s Rift Valley, burning homes and buses, clashing with police, and blocking roads with blazing tires. Witnesses described seeing two people pulled ... Unrest also simmered across the volatile Rift Valley, with mobs ransacking homes, burning belongings and threatening people trying to flee Naivasha town, north of the capital. A Reuters witness saw a Kikuyu mob hack a Luo man to death in one ... Police patrolled two western Rift Valley flashpoints of violence, Nakuru and Naivasha, where scores have died recently in gruesome attacks, pushing the death toll since the Dec 27 election to more than 900. Plumes of smoke rose from Naivasha's slums ... And he joined historic talks with two popes in an effort to ease a 10-century rift with the Roman Catholic Church. But he angered social liberals by mixing church with state, and he clashed bitterly with the government over Greece's participation in ... Hundreds of Kikuyus wielding stones, sticks, machetes and wooden planks studded with nails confronted rival tribes Monday on a main road, whooping and wailing for blood as violence from last month's disputed election raged in Kenya's Rift Valley ... The refusal of European allies to deploy to Afghanistan's dangerous south and east has opened a rift with Britain , Canada, the Netherlands and other countries that, along with the United States, have borne the brunt of Taliban violence. gaza strip ... There have been running battles between gangs from different ethnic groups in several rift valley towns and the slums of Nairobi following the murder of a senior opposition lawmaker. Police said they were not ruling out "political motives" for Mugabe ... NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) - Two Kenyan military helicopters opened fired on Tuesday above a crowd threatening members of the Luo tribe sheltering at a police post in the Rift Valley town of Naivasha, a Reuters reporter said. "The helicopters are dive ...
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