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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Salmonella Dub
This near-monopoly control of the vitamin-C market caused the Wall Street Journal to dub China the “OPEC of vitamin C ... salted bean curds, which were rejected for being “filthy,” and frozen channel catfish, which were infected with salmonella ... ... NZ's top musicians, Amplifier.co.nz is proud to bring you P-Money interviewing Tiki Taane about the creation of his new album, Past, Present, Future . Tiki discusses the creative process of making the album, the freedom of not being in Salmonella Dub ... As a former frontman for Salmonella Dub and producer for some of the biggest live acts in New Zealand you would expect Tiki Taane to be confident. But on the eve of his first solo tour the multi-award winning musician from Woodhill is not afraid to ... TIKI TAANE left Salmonella Dub after a decade long stint to forge his own career with the dense dub production skills he brought to that band allied to his own take on traditional Maori instrumentation and waiata. His album Past, Present, Future ... Vodafone Homegrown, from X-Air organiser Mark Wright, will feature 35 of New Zealand's top musical acts including Shihad, The Feelers, Pluto, Kora and Salmonella Dub.. Like X-Air, it will be on Wellington's waterfront, and will use five weatherproof ... If you have any doubts about what's in store, here's a taste of who is already confirmed; Shihad , Pluto , The Mint Chicks , The Checks , OpShop , The Feelers , Goodnight Nurse , Motocade , Kora , Salmonella Dub , Concord Dawn , Ladi 6, Dick Johnson, Minuit , ... his first debut release since performing as Salmonella Dub's frontman. On the decks will be soulful DJ legend Manuel Bundy . Shapeshifter with MC Tiki and Manuel Bundy On tour this summer 26 December Coroglen Tavern, Coromandel 27 December Waihi Beach Hotel ... Tiki Taane's first live show since embarking on his solo journey is a highly-anticipated live musical experience. Ex-frontman for Salmonella Dub , Tiki is perhaps one of the most acclaimed musicians in the country doubling at times as an award ... Former Salmonella Dub soundman-turned-frontman Tiki Taane's album ' Past, Present, Future ' is out now; he'll tour the album in November. Guest vocalists include Taane's father Uekaha Taanetinorau and grandmother Inuwai, as well as PDigsss, Julia Deans ... From out of the swamps of Aotearoa rolls a bass infusion of global Dub, Roots, Jungle and DnB Culture. The debut Dub Conspiracy compilatiuon CD highlights the very best of Aotearoa. Featuring 13 un-released, new or rare tracks from Salmonella Dub ...
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