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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Silent Voices
When money is cut from programs, “the voices of people who need help become even more silent than normal.” For any type of community resource program, when the community invests in the program, the program becomes more solid, Moore pointed out. ... One of Gloucester's most lyrical, passionate and pointed voices is now silent, with the passing of the city's poet laureate, Vincent Ferrini. But it is Gloucester's and the world's good fortune that his voice will remain in the volumes of poetry he ... ... director of Project Hospitality, who last year pledged to carve out an hour a day from her hectic schedule for silent ... Even more importantly, she said she worked on quelling the judgment-making voices in her mind. "I think I've become more ... The voices of King Farouk, former presidents Mohamed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser, feminist Hoda Shaarawi and journalists ... It was very popular with the audience, such as Hetaf El-Samteen (The Screams of the Silent) whereby we analyzed the graffiti ... I am speaking of the lie of silent assertion; we can tell it without saying a word. For example: It would not be possible ... not allow this country to continue in the same direction—heading toward the population iceberg. We must make our voices ... It welcomes extra voices. It engages the silent, often by shifting the subject. A good conversation needn’t finish where it began. If everyone finds themselves surprised, you’ve had a great conversation. You’ve also worked important brain ... Protecting the Silent Majority By Jonathan DeYoe (12-28-07) ... We all have a right to be speak our minds, not just the folks with the loudest voices. 2. Don’t demonize the opposition. All ... I've come to realize that the victims no longer have voices, and I want to tell their stories in just as much detail as the killers' tales. Murderers often preen for the cameras, almost enjoying their notoriety. The victims are silent. People often ... ... Honourable Brian Mulroney, wife Mila Mulroney, and co-chair Gérard Charlebois, featured an intimate cocktail and silent art ... was yet another overwhelming success, bringing together a glittering cross-section of the globe's most extraordinary voices ... His engaging and eclectic music has been performed all over the world, though he remains very much a part of the silent ... series includes nearly 250 recordings, from seminal figures like Copland and Charles Ives to important contemporary voices ...
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