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: Roots
Yvonne holds her baby sister, Tina, in front of their home, made of mud and sticks, in Kibera, Kenya. Jan. 11, 2008 | When Kenya erupted in post-election violence earlier this month, one of the flashpoints was in Kibera, Nairobi's notorious slum ... Mitt Romney was circling campaign wagons yesterday for a desperate “last stand” in Michigan, his birthplace and a state that he must win on Tuesday to get his Republican presidential run back on track. He has pulled advertisements from other ... Watch out for those roots. They will get you every time." With the wind knocked out of me, I climbed back in the saddle and headed off down the trail - cautious and slow - but ready for anything. The off-road bicycling trails here at Wilderness Park ... We plan a return to aggressive grass-roots outreach in high-risk communities," executive director Donald Blanchon said. "We want to be on the right street corners with the right information addressing people who are truly at risk." Whitman-Walker is ... Bryan Ferry and Sting made much of their north-eastern roots, but they lived the lives of country squires in Sussex and Wiltshire. However, Keegan and Shearer came back to earn something more precious than medals - a people's love, whose haunting ... Fork gently around the edge, keeping away from the growing points, and lift the roots with a good covering of soil to minimise damage. Use the cutting edge of the spade to divide the crown into sections. Each section needs a portion of rhizome (the ... It is often difficult for gardeners to relate problems seen on the leaves to what is happening to the roots. This is the graceful swan scenario - the feet flapping unseen beneath the water are doing all the work. With plants, it's the roots that keep ... Also, he added, demand for steel in sectors such as transportation and energy was still very strong – even in the US where much of the credit crunch has its roots. Adding to worries that the steel industry could be moving into a weaker period, Posco ... In the issue out this week, subtitled Brand New Day, Peter Parker returns to his roots -- young, nerdy and single. Aunt May is alive and well and Mary Jane is again just part of the cast. The marriage never happened. "People are very upset. They ... Between them, they play guitar, piano, banjo, lapsteel guitar, harmonica, double bass, ukulele, trombone and accordion, swapping instruments between songs at their live shows. This track is on their 'A to Z' compilation – 'The Roots of Rock 'n' Roll
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