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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Severe Torture
The author conveniently omits key phrases from U.S. law, which defines torture as intending "to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering." The law further defines severe mental pain as, among other things, "the threat of imminent death." ... These range from severe nosebleeds, cuts, and bruising, to fractured or broken bones. Young people in YOIs face what is ... Earlier this month a delegation from the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture took up the issue of child ... In this (almost tailor-made) drama, he is kidnapped during a visit to South Africa, then subjected to severe psychological torture that leads to memory loss and Alzheimer’s. El ‘Ameel 1001 (Agent 1001) Move over 007, here comes Agent ... Brothers Paul Dhaliwal, 19, and Kulbir Dhaliwal, 23, were at San Francisco General Hospital with severe bite and claw wounds ... of iPod Hannah Montana Concert Winner Lied in Essay Describing Father's Death in Iraq Woman Forced to Strip in Egypt 'Torture ... Mitt Romney is running for President and proudly refuses to say if he would obey the law regarding torture. Worse, he's ... power -- not even ones you try to place on him through your representatives in Congress -- otherwise you will be in severe ... ... Reporter Shailagh Murray , emphasizing how bored she is by efforts to stand up to the President's lawbreaking, torture ... power -- not even ones you try to place on him through your representatives in Congress -- otherwise you will be in severe ... ... detainees recently transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabian custody could receive fair trials and escape torture ... It reported human rights violations including "no right to change the government, infliction of severe pain by judicially ... ... hours" after he was brutally beaten by deputies, all part of an "unprovoked and unlawful attack and torture" in November 2006. Jackson, who was a starting defensive end on Sacramento State's football team the last two seasons, suffered "severe ... ... proof to George Inc. that these people are simply incapable of gratitude to Uncle Sam. All they understand is torture ... determination, and the genocide of a million Iraqis, injury of a million more, and displacement of four million, and severe ... Ratner said he was "dismayed" that a Democratic majority has failed "to push on key illegalities… the torture program, and ... Mark Mazzeti in The New York Times used 'severe interrogation methods.' Eric Lichtblau in the same paper chose the same ...
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