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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Screwball

Sorkin, the genius behind our beloved “The West Wing,” has a knack for approaching Washington politics with a 1930s screwball comedy air, adding all the heart and charm of a Frank Capra movie. Tom Hanks, as Charlie, absolutely nails the role. One ... So, bring on the screwball shenanigans please. Indeed, right till the intermission point, you’re a fellow traveller with Miss Chirpy and Mr Jilted. They’re stranded at Ratlam, land up in a sleazoid hotel, and eventually at her Bhatinda Bangla for a ... Instead, she created an act based on smart parody, screwball dialect and physical humor. Ironically, in 1909, she would make her first Broadway mark in a musical comedy, "The College Girls," using a put-on Yiddish accent to sing Irving Berlin's ... 2. “Waitress” This screwball comedy about a pregnant pie-maker is full of deep dish laughs, off-kilter romances and well-defined supporting characters. Keri Russell becomes a movie star in this witty romp that’s as perfectly constructed as one ... His screwball antics, which include buzzing like a bee while singing love to the opera diva, are hilarious. A fabulous discovery is Allison Angelo, as a painter's model. Her big, golden soprano would be as appropriate for Verdi as this confection. ... The Marriage of Figaro." The Minnesota Opera captured the perfect balance of respect and irreverence with its season-closing production of Mozart's delicious screwball comedy of an opera, splendidly sung and played and loaded with laughs. Mahler's ... Here's the indie-film economy at work: You come back from Sundance and right away you get more Sundance movies. The ones from last year. Writer-director Maria Maggenti's lesbian-crossover Manhattan screwball comedy, her first film in 11 years (after ... The actress, whose birth centennial is this year (she died in 1990), had such singular style while exhibiting an expansive range that moved through melodrama, screwball, noir, Western and television with seeming effortlessness. A rare blend of ... Lindsay-Abaire screws with all the conventions of screwball comedy. His plays tend to focus on women with oddball problems. In Fuddy Meers , it was amnesia; in Kimberly Akimbo , progeria, the premature aging disease. In Wonder of the World , Cass, the ... LOS ANGELES - Robert Pastorelli, who played the screwball housepainter Eldin on "Murphy Brown," was found dead in his Hollywood Hills home in what the coroner's office said may have been a drug overdose. He was 49. Coroner's office Lt. Ed Winter said ...
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