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: Singing Through
Joy brings their community together, said Rabbi David Zaslow, which is created in part through singing and dancing during their service. "Psalm 100 says 'Serve the holy one with joy,' and we try to fulfill that," Zaslow said. "We try to make our ... American Idol’ is a dream come true Singing contest has all the ingredients for a very successful seventh season ... This team is enough to keep viewers entertained even when the singers have to slog through the dreaded Broadway night. The ... Given the unenviable job of singing right through their high kicks and somersaults, they put over nearly every word clearly even as they vault. Playing Rum Tum Tugger, the Elvis-style spotlight-grabber, Zander Meisner wriggles his hips with abandon ... Shot in her Christmas-light- decorated dorm room at Skidmore College, her two entries in the "Bushman World Ukulele Video Contest," submitted through YouTube, are quick edits of her playing and singing all of the parts on Destiny's Child's "Survivor ... The musicianship was discreetly superb, but the sound and staging was simple and unvarnished as they cruised through the opening number, Give Me Some Love, a lyric that Blunt seemed to be addressing to the audience as much as anyone. Blunt's singing ... His enthusiasm for communicating through singing made a deep impression on her. "That's a thing that remains with me as a very powerful, visceral image, and I hear it still," she says. It made her want to sing, too: "The fact that I had a string ... The 2005 Lowell High graduates have since reconnected through poetry and perform collaborative pieces punctuated by Jones' smoky singing voice, reminiscent of Jill Scott. Their poem “Roots,” was a reflective piece on life as a Vietnamese/Black ... The betting is that Jobs, who previously balked at paying the studios more than $14 for each movie sold through iTunes, has agreed to pay closer to the $17 wholesale price Hollywood gets from "physical" DVD sales by Wal-Mart and other retailers. Some ... She slides her way through notes. "She was also famous for singing behind the beat. At some points in her career some musicians said 'I don't know if she's going to catch up,' but she always did." The other performer in the two-person production is ... ... lunch and dinner, succeeding despite my doubts about its reach: from Filipino fare to the Pacific Rim and back through U.S ... seem more interested in other things, dividing their time evenly among watching sports on Kawali's two televisions, singing ...
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