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: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Selections included everything from "Wind Beneath My Wings" to "Somewhere, Over the Rainbow." In a 1990 Tribune story, Rabbi Kaiman acknowledged his methods were alienating to some. "Let me put it in my bluntest way. You either love me or you hate me ... Somewhere over the rainbow/Skies are blue/And the dreams that you dare to dream/Really do come true." It's nice, and right, to dream, especially of peace. But as the US president saw this week in Jerusalem, sometimes the skies here are not blue - and ... So where is that next generation of vehicles capable of meeting those federal mandates, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and pioneering uses of alternative forms of propulsion? They seem to exist, for the most part, still somewhere over the rainbow ... And search internally for sympathetic superiors who you can hobnob with now and then. Nothing heavy. Just friendly. It will remind you that not all bosses are losers. Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are not always black-and-blue. In the meantime ... After a Scripture reading, a pianist accompanied a saxophonist in the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." While some family members wiped away tears, others held each other. During the service, Stockton described Alysha Suing, 8, as smart, beautiful ... Your first night in town, opt for a relatively casual dinner somewhere in the heart of West Hollywood. You'll find scads of gay ... If you're a serious shopper, consider venturing over to the massive Beverly Centre mall, on the edge of West Hollywood ... The album went on to win eight awards at the 2005 Grammy Awards, which was dedicated to Charles. Its recording of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, a duet with Johnny Mathis, was played at Charles' funeral. SOURCES: IMDB, Amazon, Wikipedia and RayCharles.com ... stress urban centers, the message from the demise of the paper mills and the growth of companies like Hi-Tech couldn't be more clear. Without the skills required in a high-tech global economy, the best of times will remain somewhere over the rainbow. ... Inside the residence, Adi Bar-Lev, a 13-year-old redhead with braces, sang "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" in Hebrew and English, and another girl sang in Arabic. Asked why they chose that song, Bar-Lev said: "It's a song about a better place, a place of ... ... minerals rich in iron and varied in color, which gave the quartz logs a rainbow ... wood normally would be," Shirakawa said, "so we know it was displaced from somewhere ... yard holding the giant logs looks as if a lumber truck might have tipped over ...
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