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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Sergio Mendes
The Italy international's assured and disciplined displays in the centre of the pitch has meant that big-money signings Sergio Almiron and Tiago Mendes have played no more than bit parts in the Bianconeri's climb up to third in the table. Zanetti may ... Worldwide stainless steel usage is due to grow 5% per year through 2011, forecasts Sérgio Mendes , commercial and services director at Brazilian specialty steelmaker Acesita. Currently, though, he admits the stainless sector is going through a ... Will (who's given name is William Adams) was nominated for a Grammy for song of the year for co-writing John Legend's breakout acoustic piano ballad, "Ordinary People," and he recently produced Sergio Mendes' all-star comeback album as well as a song ... The first time I heard "Yes, Yes Y'all," the single from Sergio Mendes' Timeless, was what NPR-connoisseurs call a driveway moment. It came on just as I was unbuckling my seatbelt to get out of the car, but five minutes and nine seconds later, I was ... She chose three compositions by the Brazilian legend Antonio Carlos Jobim, music penned by Sergio Mendes (an early influence) and numbers written by Latin masters such as Roberto Menescal and Pablo Beltran Ruiz. Irene also has the ability to shape jazz ... Hard-core fans, however, will have created their own superior mixtapes by now—ones that don't include Sergio Mendes and will.i.am's abysmal "Let Me." And Scott's hook-laden singing will give newcomers an often lovely but ultimately misleading ... will.i.am – “Songs About Girls” (After his work the past year with Fergie and Justin Timberlake and guiding Sergio Mendes’ comeback album, the leader of the Black Eyed Peas is one of the hottest pop producers in the game. His debut album ... Her particular aptitude for latin jazz is spotlighted on standout tracks “Rio De Maio” (a duet with Ivan Lins) “So Many Stars” (highlighted by Sergio Mendes’ delicate piano) and “Caminhos Cruzados” (with harmonica great Toots Thielemans ... A collection of street rumbas and songs for the deities, it includes their take on Sergio Mendes's bossa nova Mas Que Nada. In 1965 Valdés composed a TV signature tune for Bill Cosby and joined Puente at the Newport Jazz Festival. Cachao's milestone ... EL: Aided by the hip-hop sensibilities of the Black Eyed Peas, Sergio Mendes' "M…s Que Nada" revisits the bossa/lounge charm of his seminal '60s hit. SG: Shaki's "Tortura" is one those memorable songs that made your 90-year old abuelita, 2-year-old ...
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