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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Savatage
TSO grew out of O'Neill's work as the longtime producer of the now-defunct progressive metal band Savatage. Since forming the act in 1996, he hasn't skimped on anything related to TSO. The recorded music — which many critics have ragged as ... ... Pink Floyd, Ozzy Osborne, King Kobra, Rod Stewart & Vanilla Fudge, Mountain & Frehley's Comet, Yngwie Malmsteen, Blue Oyster Cult, Keel, Orleans, Lou Gramm, Cher & Drive She Said, Shadows of Knight, XYZ, Enuff Z' Nuff, Geezer Butler Band and Savatage ... They had worked together on Savatage, a metal group that made two ''rock opera'' CDs. Trans-Siberian has made five Christmas-themed concept CDs and one other, ''Beethoven's Last Night,'' that is not yuletide related. Last year it had the highest ... TSO grew out of O’Neill’s work as the longtime producer of the now-defunct progressive metal band Savatage. Since forming TSO in 1996, he hasn’t skimped on anything related to it. The recorded music — which many critics have dismissed as ... ... out our first Christmas rock opera and it just grew from there," says Bob Kinkel, TSO composer/co-producer and keyboardist. Kinkel shares the TSO experience with Paul O'Neill (TSO founder), Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli, all from the rock band Savatage. TSO was borne of the success of the song “Christmas Eve” (Sarajevo 12/24), a rock opera originally recorded by the band Savatage, in which O’Neill, Kinkel and Oliva took part. The song, quickly picked up by Florida radio stations that ... The Motor City was one of the first to roll out the welcome mat for the 23-piece rock 'n' roll orchestra, which he formed with guitarist Paul O'Neill and Savatage singer Jon Oliva in 1996. The band, whose albums and tours have become routinely ... He had already built a resumé playing with Michael Bolton, Alice Cooper and Asia when O'Neill, whose production credits include Aerosmith and Badlands, called him in 1995 to play on a new record by the progressive rock band Savatage. "He [O'Neill ... Birthed in 1996 by former Aerosmith and Humble Pie producer Paul O'Neill, with Savatage lead singer Jon Oliva and composer Robert Kinkel, TSO aspired to tread where heavy metal had not gone before - marrying classical and traditional music to ... Debuting in 1996 with Christmas Eve and Other Stories, Trans-Siberian Orchestra reunited Pitrelli and former Savatage bandmates Robert Kinkel, Jon Olivia and singer/lyricist/librettist and producer O'Neill. O'Neill had the original concept, uniting ...
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