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: Self Titled
The 18-year-old singer is continuing to promote her self-titled debut, which was released in late November, with a chat and performance of "Tattoo" on Fox's "Talkshow With Spike Feresten" on Saturday night. Jordin Sparks has had a poor outing, barely ... Her 2004 self-titled debut has sold nearly 100,000 copies (she's big in Japan and Canada), and her splendid 2007 CD, "Make Someone Happy," shows a more confident, seductive singer who does distinctive readings of "(It's Not Easy) Bein' Green" and ... Last year's Idol winner, Glendale's Jordin Sparks, hasn't set the charts on fire with her self-titled debut album, but show-biz watchers say the series is in no danger of going away. QUESTION: Will you watch the upcoming season of American Idol ? Yes ... Elana James has played with Bob Dylan and now she comes to Syracuse. The eclectic violinist, who is touring in support of her 2007 self-titled CD, plays tonight at the Persian Terrace in the Hotel Syracuse. Rolling Stone magazine says, "James matches ... (FROM BILLBOARD) – The self-titled debut record from former American Idol finalist Chris Daughtry's band was named Billboard's top selling album during 2007 (which covers December 2006 – November 2007), moving approximately 3.2 million copies ... J'envoie's self-titled debut album sounds great in the headphones. It's all mind-blistering sonic stinkmaking that transcends your headspace and blows pretty pictures into your brains. This is what's meant by the term ear candy. The group includes ... Their self-titled Red House Records album, produced by former Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson, was met with raves from rock writers; they turned heads at the South By Southwest Music Conference in Austin, and they won the coveted Grassy Hill Kerrville ... At last following up Black Mountain's beloved self-titled debut, Stephen McBean leads his well-oiled outfit through terrain both rugged and slippery, often within the same song. "Tyrants" slips from throttling stoner-psych to wavering folk, and ... Chris is doing a good job of it," says Bow Wow of Brown, whose self-titled debut went double-platinum and who is up for a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Kiss Kiss," with T-Pain). "He's doing everything he has to do to gain longevity." ... The band's self-titled debut album has just been certified gold, meaning it's sold more than 500,000 copies. "And a gold record ain't easy these days," said Disend. The tour, which begins in March, includes 46 dates. Accustomed to playing tiny venues ...
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