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: Slow Colours
In "Reflets dans l'eau" from the first book of Images, for example, the colours glisten and sparkle, the eddies of the music ... Courtly restraint in the slow sarabandes is contrasted with the more bucolic vigour of the famous gigue in the Third Suite ... A slow painter who works alone, often at night, Zhang can barely keep pace with demand. He gestures to one painting of five ... and state propaganda were the only entertainment. “There was nothing else to hear, no other choice.” His choice of colours ... This personal elegance colours her approach to performance. She doesn't deliver Bartoli-style show-stopping exhibitionism (she ... The payoff is that although she is now in her early fifties, a time when most singers slow down, she seems to be firmly in ... ... has departed, you can't help but notice the pretty, converted barges moored along the canal, with vibrant names and colours ... The barge continues on its slow course - it is overtaken by joggers and cyclists on the towpath - before stopping at London ... Removing the distracting background hiss from an old tape recording or restoring the colours of a faded photograph are some of ... These were slow, limited and expensive. It is the unbelievable power of digital today that is creating an unprecedented urge ... ... shortcomings by focusing on those even more unfortunate than herself. No wonder Alex Salmond has such a grin on his face whenever she starts to speak. I've waited for a long time to witness the death of this monstrous party. May it be a long, slow ... Slow or fast, happy or sad, or whatever your beat is in a particular moment, SensMe. Built in FM Radio. Plug in your ... The screen is already a joyful sight, the colours are vibrant and text and icons look very clean and sharp. The menu system is ... Also I do not exclude, that organizational sanctions for such slow actions could be sharp enough. Nevertheless, we managed ... of Africans and Asians - the same migrants, as well as the previous "brothers-Russians", only with the skin of other colours ... ... team up at half-back with scrum-half Jerry Tsang (ex-Edinburgh University), who celebrated a winning debut in Accies colours ... The forwards were slow to breakdowns and their enthusiasm of the first half was completely missing; was it a lack of ... Surprisingly, the mechanism does not slow down the startup, with the E-3 starting up and shutting down in a swift second. ... Image quality, with E-3's TruePic III image processor, is superb, with saturated colours and smooth skin tones. The dynamic ...
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