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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... Etta James - "I'd Rather Go Blind" Billy Bragg - "The Price I Pay" Blur - "To the End" Sonic Youth - "Superstar" Tegan and Sarah - "Where Does the Good Go?" Hour 2 - Listen Janis Joplin - "Piece of My Heart" The Seeds - "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" Sebadoh ... Beat Happening, Velocity Girl, Sebadoh, and Codeine. Despite the fact that free vinyl doesn't pay, the bands get good publicity. June 2007, London: Prince releases his new CD, Planet Earth , via the London ... ... It’s like any genre defining word—like people who would define us as ‘psychedelic.’ After a while you don’t even know what that means.” Brian Weitz (aka Geologist) points to a comment from Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh: “He said ... The band’s first Warner Bros. release, “Green Mind” (1991), became a college rock favorite and was followed by “Where You Been,” “Without a Sound” and “Hand It Over.” Barlow, meanwhile, recorded with his bands Sebadoh and the Folk ... (Filter) The Friedberger brother-sister combo, better known as The Fiery Furnaces, have announced additional North American dates. The mini jaunt will find the opening slot filled by New York upstarts, MGMT. Sebadoh's Jason Loewenstein and longtime ... Along with two versatile touring musicians - drummer Bob D'Amico, a Centereach native, and bassist Jason Loewenstein of the band Sebadoh - The Fiery Furnaces became a formidable live band, and a high-profile slot on Wilco's 2004 tour brought wider ... The outsiders are being ushered before TV cameras and across blogger America, and along the way they've dropped the torch tossed out by another Noise Pop headliner, Sebadoh — who back in the day demanded "Gimme Indie Rock," and laid down the terms ... And Barlow, who formed the influential lo-fi outfit Sebadoh after leaving Dino Jr., contributes two propulsive, cathartic originals and some roiling bass work. The trio might not completely reach the heights of their best material -- a couple of ... Barlow is accustomed to writing material for his solo career and for his other famous band, Sebadoh , but said he has a different role in Dinosaur Jr. . "My role in Dinosaur Jr. is pretty clearly defined," he said. "I'm the bass player. But I wrote two ... Some of my most treasured films were seen, by myself by accident, and mean so much more to me than seeing The Darjeeling Ltd with 43 people in Sebadoh t-shirts. The only exception to the rule was seeing Potemkin in Trafalgar Square with PSB doing the ...
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