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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Slowdive
As a teenager in the '90s my makeout repertoire was dominated more by bands influenced by Siouxsie (the Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive) than the lady herself. So if any of you old-timers know what's up, leave your thoughts—or what's currently on ... The High Violets , as if taking a further cue from the past, have taken several of their songs and had them remixed, ala Slowdive when they released their In Mind EP . The Violets record, Satellite Remixes , is packed to the gills with expansive ... No Slowdive?) But these 78 songs are amazingly consistent overall, like the play list of a good DJ on a theme night at your favorite club, and the fact that they come packaged in a replica of a British telephone booth complete with miniature flashing ... ... culture is a thin one, and self-described "soulgazers" Apollo Heights blurs it completely. Consisting of five black men and one black woman, Apollo Heights pairs the gang-falsetto vocals of TV on the Radio with the trebly crunch of Ride or Slowdive ... The Forms evokes the classic Dischord roster – think Shudder To Think and Fugazi – as much as it does underappreciated ’90s acts such as Slowdive and the Dismemberment Plan. With local pop/techno act Stevedore also performing, this show ... A These records were quite helpful: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Pink Floyd); Parklife (Blur); Odessey and Oracle (the Zombies); Souvlaki (Slowdive); Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (the Monkees); Pet Sounds (Beach Boys). Q What is your ... On Sunday at the Detroit Bar, one of music’s most quietly influential genres takes a bow in two distinctly different ways. Shoegaze, the messy blur of beautifully distorted guitar overdrive, was initially typified by bands such as Slowdive, Lush ... ... The Jesus And Mary Chain, Lyca Sleep, Interpol, Crass, The Warlocks, The Telescopes, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Rakes, Ride, The Clash, Mint Ive, Happy Mondays, Mudhoney, Nikoli, !Forward Russia!, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Bloc Party, Slowdive ... Unfortunately, there are also a handful of absences beyond our control–trust us, we like Slowdive, House of Love, and Radiohead as much as the next guy." So I stand behind what I wrote. Radiohead's absence is, as I said in my review, a glaring ... ... against a backdrop of choir-like vocals and picturesque melodies. "Where have I heard that before?" you're probably thinking to yourself, and if you started to think of the pastoral epics of Nowhere -era Ride, the tremolo-drenched beauty of Slowdive or ...
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