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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Sol Invictus
According to Roman paganism, Sol Invictus (Invincible Sun) was born on the winter solstice, which according to the Julian calendar occurred on Dec. 25 and was part of the Roman holiday celebration called the Saturnalia. The first “Christian ... Dionysius assumed that Mary's pregnancy took exactly nine months. Since 274 AD, following a decree by the Roman Emperor Aurelian, December 25 was also designated as the birth date of the Roman deity Mithras, the "unconquered sun" (Sol invictus ... It now is considered one of three festivals, along with the Roman holidays Saturnalia and Sol Invictus, that morphed into modern Christmas, according to many religious scholars. The giving of gifts over a seven-day period, starting around the modern ... Dec. 25 was set as the birthday of Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun, by Emperor Aurelian in third-century Rome. In the next century, Pope Julius I chose this as the date for Christmas. Becky Norlien, a Two Harbors librarian, will tell the ancient ... Noble Romans consolidated a number of the sun gods in their empire into one, the Deus Sol Invictus (God of the Unconquered Sun) and represented him in paintings and statues as handsome youth with a circle of golden light around his head. The ... Choose a Category Megalopolitan Life Fun & Games Goods & Services La Vida Restaurants High Life Readers' Choice Best of 2006 Winners "Kaliente Saturdays" at Karamba "New American City" "Ursidae Anaplasty" .anti_space 422 Fine Furniture and Framing 99 ... Whenever Jesus happened to be born, it was definetely not December 25, the day the ancient Romans celebrated Sol Invictus, the unconqueable sun. I am all for upholding the true spirit of Xmas. Which is commerce. This holiday was dreamed up a thousand ... I don't know/care. Yes. RED BLUFF -- Tehama County offices will spend the Christmas season without Santa Claus -- and any other display that's specific to the holiday. County administrators have told departments to keep their decorations secular ... Rambling for 11 single-spaced pages and ostensibly on evolutionary theory, it somehow made reference to Lamarck, Sol Invictus, and "the blanket of a superficial American Dream." Meanwhile, it garbled its basic explanation of population genetics. Grade That Saturnalia, Yule and the Mesopotamian Zagmuk all predate Christmas as winter-fest, and that any number of gods and demigods, including Ishtar, El Gabal, Mithra and Deus Sol Invictus, had the 25th as birthing-day well before it was Christ's. But ...
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