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: Song For Humanity
A perfect example of that philosophy can be found in the song "Medusa Cha cha cha." "This song was born from a mask, made ... the invocation is to protect the heart to help within us the things that we love and the things that help us belong to humanity ... in a noble and moving performance, one that did justice to the work's grand scale but also to the serene and tender humanity at ... The soul then craves the refuge of purgatory, and the work culminates with the angel's achingly beautiful song of ... Indeed, humanity faces a tempestuous future on account of the present social and economic crisis of capitalism, reverberations ... the first time in my life, I wanted to break away from the idea of opening up my journal and transferring that into song ... ... of a century hanging over it like pallid cigarette smoke, and he used to describe to me being piled up in a mass of humanity ... Song Dogs. Shawn Colvin. Michelle Shocked. Lyle Lovett. BeauSoleil. Bruce Daigrepont. C.C. Adcock. It's where I saw Clifton ... That last slot is important, because it recognizes 2007's single most beautiful film — an exercise in consciousness, humanity ... Penn's movie can't even snag a nomination for best original song, despite a soundtrack full of lovely, growly Eddie Vedder ... janfromthe bruce from Canada writes: So, the Harper 'government kept its decision under wraps, even as it prepared to fight rights groups seeking a halt to transfers in court today.' Wasting our tax dollars to fight 'something' that they are not ... But being a millionaire is not a sin against humanity. It's whose pocket the money came out of, how it was extracted, and how ... I'm not a Republican, but I get a little tired of hearing the whining song of Democrats that Republicanism is about rich ... We've totally lost control of humanity's greatest promise, America. And its citizens are merely slaves." The reality is money ... the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, continuous warfare, Richard Nixon and, okay, one catchy song ... ... Argonautika" is often unspeakably beautiful, Miss Zimmerman does not neglect the Dionysian with earthy humor, abundant song ... form, keeping up with the stringent physical and aesthetic demands of the production while still conveying warmth and humanity. ... gear amid all the other girls at practice, is suitably shocked, embarrassed and then touched, as he continues with the song ... alien behaviour audiences felt more empathy for him than for Candy, the very victim of his foibles and his fractured humanity ...
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