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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Seals and Crofts
Singer Jim Seals of Seals and Crofts, 65 ... Actor Michael McKean ("Laverne and Shirley," "This Is Spinal Tap"), 60 ... Actress Margot Kidder, 59 ... Actor George Wendt, 59 ... Actor Sam Bottoms, 52 ... Country singer Alan Jackson, 49 ... Comedian ... Recorded last March for the newly formed VH1 Classic Records, "Influence" is a masterful collection of musical cornerstones, including Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze," the Zombies' "Time of The Season" and The Mamas & The Papas' "California Dreamin ... The first example is `70s mellow-men Seals and Crofts warbling "Summer Breeze" as lovable ogre Shrek suns himself and Donkey rears up to squawk that there are only 159 days left till Christmas. This elicits the annoyed declaration, "I don't care ... For those who recall the 1970s, think "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" by Seals & Crofts. Anyone who follows Stanford football knows it's in the school's DNA to beat USC and then lose the next week to Texas Christian. Pac-10 opponents almost never ... Singer Jim Seals (Seals & Crofts) is 65. Singer Gary Puckett is 65. Actor Michael McKean is 60. Actress Margot Kidder is 59. Actor George Wendt is 59. Actor Sam Bottoms is 52. Astronaut Mae Jemison is 51. Country singer Alan Jackson is 49. Movie ... Singers Jim Seals of Seals and Crofts and Gary Puckett of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap are 65. Actor Michael McKean ("Laverne and Shirley," "This Is Spinal Tap") is 60. Actress Margot Kidder and actor George Wendt are 59. Actor Bill Hudson is 58 ... Singer Jim Seals of Seals and Crofts is 65. Singer Gary Puckett of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap is 65. Actor Michael McKean (“Laverne and Shirley,” “This Is Spinal Tap”) is 60. Actress Margot Kidder is 59. Actor George Wendt is 59. Actor Sam ... The theme to our senior prom was the Seals & Crofts song, "We May Never Pass This Way Again."-- We did not.- With a little luck, we did not hear that song again, either. On the inside cover of that yearbook, there's an aerial photo of the Class of '77 ... Singer Jim Seals of Seals and Crofts is 65. Singer Gary Puckett of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap is 65. Actor Michael McKean ("Laverne and Shirley," "This Is Spinal Tap") is 60. Actress Margot Kidder is 59. Actor George Wendt is 59. Actor Sam ... Seals & Crofts' pop tune "Summer Breeze"; and John Legend's "Ordinary People," done as an instrumental with Benson's soulful guitar supported by Marion Meadows' smooth sax. On Miles Davis' hardbop classic "Four," Benson and Jarreau engage in spirited ...
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