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: Salt Rain
If it comes in as a rain event and you put down salt brine, it dilutes the salt brine to the point where it's ineffective,” he said. Jen Thompson with the NCDOT said Friday Mother Nature was already working in their favor. “We feel like we’ve got ... My advice is to sleep in, and let us do our job," said Martin, who added that crews are spreading salt overnight on 30 routes across Charlotte. State crews are doing the same thing on roads across North Carolina. "There are going to be some icy ... The 115-foot lighthouse's structural bulwark protects it against howling winds, salt air, driving rain, and earthquakes, but shortly before Christmas in 2001, two 200-pound chunks of iron and brick unexpectedly dropped to the ground. California State ... ... the boards has been at a standstill for months, as city officials awaited the delivery of about 15,500 pieces of a rain ... to cause all kinds of traffic and congestion problems along the boardwalk," said Holly Cockerham, manager of Shriver's Salt ... As this rain settles in we are concerned about that,” said Derrick Duggins with Johnston County Emergency Management. Cary road crews also planned to spread sand and salt over bridges and overpasses throughout the morning. “We are expecting ... Of course, we're prepared. We're monitoring our salt. We have our crews ready. Our equipment has been checked," Barnes said. Friday afternoon slush and snow still coated some side streets that could re-freeze as the temperature dips. (© MMVIII ... People in urban areas are putting in rain gardens, so that rain soaks into the soil rather than running off and carrying ... have to slow that water, whether it's from our farms or from our urban areas, where there's fertilizer put on lawns and salt ... News4 meteorologist Bob Ryan predicted a 50 percent chance of light snow or flurries and maybe a mix with rain Saturday ... Salt spreaders traversed the side streets, and children treaded carefully as they headed to their school buses. In Charles ... ... of an inscription that reads: "paso por aqui" we passed by here and has been scrawled over by vandals. (Mark Havnes/The Salt ... Although showing severe wear after two centuries of sun, wind and rain, the style of the "1776" mark captured their attention ... ... snow to possible freezing rain and ice Thursday. These make for even more dangerous driving conditions. Timmy Fitzgerald, Verona residency office, says, crews have been preparing all day for the expected slick roads. Fitzgerald says the mix of salt ...
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