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 Drag
Bernanke, testifying before Congress, confirmed the slow economic growth, saying the housing sector will be a drag on the economy for much of this year. Bernanke's comments added to the negative economic sentiment pushing prices down after ... Bernanke, testifying before Congress, confirmed the slow economic growth but not the recession. He said the housing sector will be a drag on the economy for much of this year. Moreover, the Philadelphia Fed announced its measure of ... AFX News Limited Paris shares close lower after Bernanke comments drag Wall Street down UPDATE 01.17.08, 1:30 PM ET ... Bernanke told the House Budget Committee today that he sees the US economy 'growing at a relatively slow pace particularly in ... ... be efficient and timely. and he reiterated concerns about the economy, adding that he is now worried business spending will slow. Bernanke also said the risks of an economic downturn are more pronounced, and that the housing sector will be a drag on ... Business investment is "likely to slow in the coming months" as companies adjust their spending plans in the light of the ... This slowdown in business investment would come on top of expected weakness in consumer spending and a prolonged drag from ... ... in the third quarter of 2007, likely curtailed growth even more in the fourth quarter, and it may continue to be a drag on ... the adverse developments in credit markets, Bernanke said, growth in both types of investment spending seems likely to slow ... There've been reports of flooding and slow-moving traffic in parts of northern Johannesburg and Midrand this afternoon. The metro police's Edna Mamonyane says motorists should drive carefully. Meanwhile Eskom says it's doing all it can to minimise the ... The Bubble from Canada writes: It is true that raising the price of gas will slow people down and reduce most emmissions. As far as the people who live in bongwater Alberta and Westport and the rest of the boonies, too bad, you're a minority. ... Sluggish housing markets ``may continue to be a drag on growth for a good part of this year.'' Bernanke said ... cited inflation expectations that appear ``well anchored'' and futures suggesting food and energy price increases will slow ... Degney’s outlook runs counter to that of many economists, housing experts and others who expect the nation’s housing slump to drag on well into 2009. “It is going to be a really slow adjustment,” Kroll said. “There are very few that are ...
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