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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Smokey Robinson
Medicare recipients, heed the words of Smokey Robinson: "You better shop around." The annual enrollment season starts on Nov. 15, and it's gotten harder — again — to choose a Medicare health plan or prescription drug plan from among the 140 ... Ciara was on stage singing and dancing to the Diana Ross hit single "Upside Down," right after tributes from Smokey Robinson, actor Terrence Howard, Jordin Sparks from "American Idol" fame and Vanessa Williams. Yolanda Adams sang "Reach Out and Touch ... ... performance of "Smokey Joe's Cafe," and a performance by the Beatles tribute band BBC. For Ferreira, it's personal. When he was 8, he was a Make-A-Wish kid, diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. His wish came true when Spurs players David Robinson and Sean ... And speaking of comebacks, Eddie Murphy is equally dazzling as the downward-bound R&B singer James ''Thunder'' Early, an amalgam of such soulful real-life stars as Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, and Smokey Robinson (with a little Elvis Presley-style ... Ciara was on stage singing and dancing to the Diana Ross hit single "Upside Down," right after tributes from Smokey Robinson, actor Terrence Howard, Jordin Sparks from "American Idol" fame and Vanessa Williams. Yolanda Adams sang "Reach Out and Touch ... Schock, a wonderful live performer, has had her work recorded by artists such as Helen Reddy (“Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady”), Manfred Mann, Johnny Mathis, Smokey Robinson, Nancy Wilson and Roberta Flack. 2004-06-17 Sales Force Management ... The fact that singular phrases can't encapsulate Smokey Rolls reflects Banhart's open-armed, hyper-sensuous approach to ... Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes lives probably 10 houses down from us in the canyon," Banhart says. "He came over, and he ... On hand to honor them are Steve Carell, Kristin Chenoweth, Ciara, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Cameron Diaz, Art Garfunkel, Hootie & The Blowfish, Terrence Howard, Bill Irwin, Ricky Jay, Jaime Laredo, Lyle Lovett, Yo-Yo Ma, Smokey Robinson ... Singer Pete Moore (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) is 68. Sen. Tom Harkin, Democrat-Iowa, is 68. TV journalist Garrick Utley is 68. Actor Dan Haggerty is 66. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson is 66. Fashion designer ... Medicare recipients, heed the words of Smokey Robinson: "You better shop around." The annual enrollment season starts on Nov. 15, and it's gotten harder — again — to choose a Medicare health plan or prescription drug plan from among the 140 ...
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