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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Shahram Nazeri
Shahram and Hafez Nazeri , "The Passion of Rumi" (Quartertone Productions). The extraordinary vocals of Iran's much-honored Shahram Nazeri are stunningly combined with his son Hafez's blend of Middle Eastern musical structures and the sounds and ... TEHRAN, Oct. 23 ( Mehr News Agency ) -- "This award belongs to all those who have worked hard attempting to promote our country's culture," Shahram Nazeri, winner of France's Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur medal said at a press conference on Monday ... TEHRAN, Sept. 28 ( Mehr News Agency ) -- Iranian vocalist Shahram Nazeri is to be awarded France's Chevalier des Arts et Lettres medal for his lifetime achievements in Iranian traditional music tomorrow. Nazeri is scheduled to give improvised ... Several Iranian and Turkish cultural officials, including Iran’s House of Music Director Hamidreza Nurbakhsh, are to attend the concert, MNA reported. Nazeri is to perform several pieces based on the works of Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi. Several other ... Chevalier medal winner Nazeri made world bow to Iranian art and music Tehran Times Art Desk TEHRAN -- Shahram Nazeri, the winner of France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur medal, returned to Tehran on Wednesday morning. He was welcomed at ... TEHRAN -- Iranian vocalist Shahram Nazeri received the Lifetime Cultural Heritage Award at the Annual Dinner of the Asia Society of New York on November 6. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and a number of cultural and political figures ... TEHRAN -- The House of Cinema paid tribute to Shahram Nazeri, the winner of France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur medal, in a ceremony held in Khoy, the resting place of Shams on Friday. Representatives of the foundation Alireza Raisian and ... TEHRAN -- The House of Cinema will honor Iranian vocalist Shahram Nazeri for his musical work on the lyrics of Rumi on November 2. They will be presenting him with a plaque of honor in Khoy, the resting place of Shams. In recognition of the work ... Iranian musician Shahram Nazeri, one of the world's leading performers of Rumi poetry, is also uncomfortable with the "pop culture" status accorded to the mystic poet's works. When told that an Iranian rap group and heavy metal band - both claiming ... Vocalists and performers have recited Rumi's lines, Ul-Ghani wrote, "From Madonna to Demi Moore in North America, to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent and Dawlatmand Khal in Central Asia, from Shahram Nazeri and Shajarian in ...
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