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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Solstice
Now that December's solstice has passed, we will see a little bit more sunshine as we march toward spring. By the end of January, the Washington area will gain about 41 minutes of daylight, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory. Mercury Flybys On ... No one can say what the peregrine falcon was thinking when he came to roost under the Lincoln Financial clock tower at Market and Elm. Here it was, about a quarter till the midnight stroke of 2007, smack in the middle of town. But time and space ... Thursday afternoon will mark the summer solstice here in the northern hemisphere. For that we give thanks. But it is hot, and it is dry and we could REALLY use some rain - lots of it. No jokes here Aug. 8: Our collective community heart was broken ... So drive 115 miles up the Dalton Highway to the Arctic Circle (there's a sign) on winter solstice. It'll be pitch dark. But around noon the sun will almost peek up from the southernmost horizon before sinking back down again. At its brightest moment ... We don't want people to think we're out burying the horns at midnight on the solstice," Barbara Steele says. "And chanting," Bill Steele chimes in. Downplaying the rituals to visitors, the couple does say they take them seriously, "because it's a ... So on the day before the winter solstice — just below freezing, two feet of snow in the woods, Mother and the dogs away and not due back till evening — I dug out my Adirondack bearpaws, adjusted the bindings to a new pair of snow sneakers, and ... Maybe it's because the world is turning in the solstice of the season and our lives turn as well into that next season of change. Then again it might just be that we all received new calendars for Christmas and we're about to hang them up, changing ... Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa , the Solstice or something else altogether, the news that the last Santa suit manufacturer in the country (Halco of Belle Vernon) no longer produced the suits in the United States had to be sad Now ... The first showing is planned for dusk on June 20 to coincide with the summer solstice; the production ends on July 29. The high point of the anniversary celebrations will be July 3, the official date of Champlain's arrival. Dignitaries from France and ... Victories during 2007 included Ray's Run, Woodstock Races 15k, Solstice Trail Run, Marbletown Run, Races #1, 2 and 3 at the New Paltz Cross Country Series, Races #1, 2 and 4 at the Kingston Cross Country Series, Rosendale Plains Run, Dutchess County ...
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