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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Rjd2
The quartet will perform tonight at the Bluebird Theater with the Swayback and Machine Gun Blue. 3317 E. Colfax Ave. 9 p.m. Free. Saturday. RJD2, an underground hip-hop super-producer and a sample-based instrument wizard to boot, performs Saturday ... On hand to watch it all go down will be a mix of nominees, perennial college favorites and surprise guests including Gym Class Heroes, Guster, EL-P, Say Anything, Peter and Bjorn, Boys Like Girls, Cage, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and RJD2 -- who will ... Favorite bands: "Billie Holiday, Etta James, Fela Kuti, Les Nubians, Dave Brubeck, Camera Obscura, Blonde Redhead, RJD2, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Serge Gainsbourg, any and all of the Marleys, Elvis (like you can just drop that name in there like ... Filter Magazine presents Stylish Riots by Staff | 11.02.2007 Your friends here at Filter will be throwing some awesome shows ... Live New Year's Countdown » Filter's Top 10 of 2007, Day Fourteen: The National » Filter's Top 10 of 2007, Day Fifteen: RJD2 2) RJD2: "Smoke and Mirrors." 3) Velvet Underground: "Oh, Sweet Nothin'." SM: Start off with a little Rat-a-tat "17 years," move on to some Girl Talk (anything off "Night Ripper"), segue into Justice's "D.A.N.C.E." and then finish off with the Faint's ... The Chemist utilizes a flurry of craftily pieced-together samples to comprise his beats, eschewing the more atmospheric soundscapes of producers like RJD2. True to his name, this production scientist has mastered the formula of never allowing guest ... ... State Radio, Apollo Sunshine, Girl Talk, the Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars, the Elected, Matisyahu, Gregory Douglass, Edie Carey, Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Rich Price, Reel Big Fish, Tim Reynolds, Ozomatli, The Duo, RJD2 ... The night brought together an all-star combination of up-and-coming and influential artists, with Annie Lennox, Q-Tip, surprise guests Fall Out Boy, Peter and Bjorn, Talib Kweli, Tom Delonge and Dave Kennedy of Angels & Airwaves, RJD2, Red ... After a spring studded with shows with Talib Kweli and Clipse, Toad’s is following with RJD2 on October 17 th , and its “Hip-Hop Live” show November 15 th will feature Brother Ali, Rakim, and Ghostface Killah. Listen to Atmosphere at http://www ... Their music could easily be compared to the dusted beat approach of high-profile producers like DJ Shadow or RJD2 (who also appears on the Late Night comp), but the overall feel invokes a different mood than other producers in that style. Rehash tunes ...
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