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: Romantic Melodies
Rhythm and Romance follows up Kenny G's 2006 collection of all-instrumental popular material I'm In The Mood For Love…The Most Romantic Melodies of All Time . Prior to that, Kenny released his fourth holiday best-seller The Greatest Holiday Classics ... Th is sensuous artist delivers more of the sounds we have come to love in her latest album, which is filled to overflowing with romantic melodies. In the past, the instrumental music played a central role in the overall sound of Elissa’s work ... Classical composers have long dipped into the river of folk song, most famously in the nationalist schools of the Romantic ... Crumb sometimes modulated and fractured the original melodies, as in the opening "Shall We Gather at the River?," but mostly ... Amer Mounib is a romantic, and what makes his albums a success time and time again is that each song feels sincere. While his ... on the album; “La’ Ya Alby” (No, My Love) and “Kont Habibak” (I Was Your Lover) have more meaningful melodies and ... It is to Alsop's credit that, even as she seeks to establish herself as a romantic conductor, she retains the lithe ... much time to think; the mood was heightened to such a degree that the entrance of one of Dvorak's trademark rotund melodies ... ... Pygmalion," you know the dialogue will be choice, even if Lerner's artful condensation of the story has lent a more romantic ... That grace, which expertly sets off Lerner's stylish lyrics and Loewe's soaring melodies, permeates this fairest "Fair Lady." ... Rachmaninoff is the quintessential Romantic composer, she said, and his works form the centerpiece of her programs. He created lush harmonies and beautiful melodies, but theres his personal story, too. He fled in 1917, at the start of the Russian ... The concerto is definitely on the lyrical side and does not have the bombast of later Romantic concertos. Most interpreters acknowledge the singing, delicate melodies but usually find passages to individualize with a personal character and emotion ... ... Crafts), is a charming collection of airy piano ballads and sugary melodies. “I love the piano,” she says. “It’s a solitary instrument where you can turn your back on the world.” She’s bright and cheery, facing the world, on the romantic ... Los Temerarios' bubblegum ranchera has been the romantic soundtrack of millions of Mexican and Mexican-American youths' lives ... Come, I Need You"), and "Sí Quiero Volver" ("Yes I Want to Come Back") solidified their reputation for dramatic melodies and ...
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