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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Rihanna
Jay-Z's overseen massive hits for the label from artists like Kanye West and Rihanna and is personally nominated for five Grammy Awards which brings Def Jam to a total of 26 nominations this year. It's unlikely he'll miss the pay cheques though ... The hip-hop star and mogul has been at the company's helm since 2004, signing artists including Rihanna and Ne-Yo, who have gone on to enjoy huge success. Jay-Z will continue to record for the label after coming out of retirement from making music ... On the pop side, Jay-Z is credited with discovering top-selling artist Rihanna , and as a performer he lent his skills to an array of Universal acts, even rapping on a version of "Rehab," the best-selling single from Amy Winehouse , the British retro ... Carter, 38, has been president of the rap label since 2005, and has signed acts including R&B singers Rihanna and Ne-Yo. Jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson dead at 82 CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world of jazz piano for ... Following behind them were Shia LeBeouf (17%), Hayden Panettiere (16%), Rihanna (10%) and Zac Efron (7%). -- Not surprisingly, the overwhelming majority thinks Britney Spears needs a parenting class most (87%). Brit's recent ... Television reruns, celebrity relapses and Rihanna's "Umbrella" ella, ella, eh, eh! Actually those are things I would like to forget. The year 2007 will unfortunately go down as the year that Britney went berzerk, the Spice Girls reunited, Paris ... Among them, record of the year - where the song Atlantan Tricky Stewart co-produced, “Umbrella,” by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z, is up against the song the more recent transplant, Ne-Yo, co-produced for Beyoncé, “Irreplaceable.” (The other ... She first shot to fame with ‘Pon De Replay’ in 2005, but it is Rihanna’s hypnotic tune ‘Umbrella’ that made her one of the biggest sensations of the year. The song quickly became a hit when it was released over the summer and broke records ... Beyonce Knowles Rihanna Jennifer Lopez 25: Which actress sued a British newspaper after it linked a picture of her to a news story about a girl who had died from anorexia? Emily Blunt Kate Winslet Keira Knightley 26: In a case of life imitating art ... Reid, Island Def Jam Music Group chairman and CEO, said: "While he will continue to be one of our signature artists, he will nonetheless be missed in this executive capacity.” Jay-Z has signed artists including Rihanna and Ne Yo to the label. > Jay-Z ...
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