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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Rimsky-Korsakov
Alvain Mills conducts the season opener, which includes Weber's Andante and Hungarian Rondo, Op. 35, featuring bassoon soloist Leslie Lashinsky; Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major, with soloist Jon Titmus; and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade ... annual Boxing Day celebration, with all of the PYP's ensembles and many of the orchestra's alums; the Spanish-flavored program features Emmanuel Chabrier's "Espana," Manuel de Falla's "Three-Cornered Hat" Suite No. 2 and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's ... Andy Voss will solo on the xylophone during a spirited rendition of Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's 'The Flight of the Bumblebee.' This set will conclude with Steven Reisteter's 'The Eighth Candle,' a musical depiction of the 'final' candle of the menorah ... Of the land areas the Rimsky-Korsakov Archipelago is the most fully protected. Posiet Bay and Furugelm Island are home to sea cucumber, scallop and giant oyster farms. Popov Island hosts a marine wildlife museum. Inhabiting the area are 250 varieties ... That's enough of that Oriental stuff," cries Betty as Composer Rimsky-Korsakov's wife. "Just look around you in your own backyard." Suddenly she sees a backyard bee, screams, and Adolph frantically pursues the pest while buzz-buzzing The Flight of ... The much-anticipated new album "Night Castle" may be released in the spring, said TSO founder Paul O'Neil, who greeted the audience before the band's take on Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee." The band also played renditions of "Christmas ... Duke Ellington and Rimsky-Korsakov saw musical notes as colors. Other people see months of the year in precise locations in space, taste the shape of a door frame or smell the texture "bumpy." Traced to a gene on the "X" chromosome, synesthesia is far ... Premiered in 1910, "The Firebird" now seems to have more in common with such 19th-century Russians as Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky than it does with the mature Stravinsky. But much about it also seems preparatory, paving the way for the more ... Similar to the Leger film, the work is an anarchic mélange, a musical snapshot of its day that includes jazz, ragtime, industrial noises and musical quotations from Stravinsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. ''There's so much going on in it,'' Lehrman says ... Petersburg, but he instructed a colleague that it should be shown to no one, for he feared that Rimsky-Korsakov or Glazunov would learn of it and use it for unusual effects before he could. It is not just the instrumental timbre that is key to the ...
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