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: Russian Spring
Last year at this moment, we were thrilled to find two smart and original American musicals - "Spring Awakening" and "Grey ... third and final installment of "The Coast of Utopia," the unlikely and poignant extravaganza about pre-revolutionary Russian ... Both Stravinsky's "Pribaoutki" (four short songs in Russian, originally for male voice) and Ravel's "Three Poems of Stéphane ... The earthy "Pribaoutki" sometimes sounds like Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" in miniature. The pastel-hued "Three Poems ... However, what happened on that late spring evening in 1933 at Civic Center was one of the first stateside attempts to ... The company's first ballet master, Adolph Bolm, was a Russian emigre who had performed in the original casts of classics such ... ... shorthand of auteur, genre or country of origin (“the Gus Van Sant ”; “the Chinese documentary”; “that Russian thing ... critics’ polls and year-end lists, as well as to a Golden Globe nomination, offers belated confirmation of last spring’s ... Doubtless the arrival of spring will bring Taleban reinforcements, but they will find the valley a very different place from ... And it is better than the Russian time - they would kill all the animals and people. But no one likes to be told to leave ... The Russian food industry has shown steady growth in recent years. Production has increased 4-6% annually. Last year, total ... But this spring, they changed their minds and demanded their property back. So far, Guta is in no hurry to give back the ... Bryza urged both sides to back away from confrontation and strengthen democracy by working for free and fair parliamentary elections in the spring. A Russian Thaw? Saakashvili also offered an olive branch to Russia, whose relations with Georgia ... Alexander Murychev, president of the Russia Association of Regional Banks said that, between spring 2004 and spring 2005, the American correspondent accounts of about 300 Russian banks had been closed. “Large banks preserved their positions,” he ... ... was followed by a military parade along the main boulevard that featured heavy weaponry and soldiers carrying not Russian ... said the government and its opponents should concentrate on ensuring a free and fair parliamentary election this spring. ... Although the musical composition “The Rite of Spring” is considerd one of the 20th century’s greatest masterpieces, it had controversial beginnings. Written in 1910 by the Russian composer, it was representative of his fantasy vision of a pagan ...
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