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: Songbird
Twenty years ago, she was this child-puppet-songbird thing. Now she's 39, one year older than Stefani, and weirdly emotional and available. The girl from Charlemagne, Que., still speaks with a French-Canadian accent. Sometimes what she says doesn't ... There's something new on KT Tunstall's finger... A bit of bling. Because the songbird has gotten engaged to her drummer boyfriend, Luke Bullen. On her website, KT has revealed how Luke surprised her on Christmas Day. She thought he was with friends ... The dealing room talk was that Songbird Estates, which owns the landmark Canary Wharf tower, was running the numbers on a possible bid, with 220p-a-share cited as a possible offer. Analysts pointed out that Minerva has struggled over the past year and ... RCA Records just confirmed that it's dropped fifth-season runnerup (from 2006) Katharine McPhee . The adorable songbird is the latest "AI" finalist to be ejected from the BMG nest - following Season 2's Ruben Studdard and Season 5's Taylor Hicks ... Chatter continued that Songbird Estates, which runs Canary Wharf in London, was preparing to offer 220 pence per share for Minerva whose shares rose 16-3/4 to 157-1/4. In other M&A news, Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) gained 5-1/2 to 724-1/2 as the brewer ... The news of possible interest from Songbird Estates, which owns the Canary Wharf tower, was reported by this column on Wednesday, when the rumours first emerged. It gained new legs yesterday, with the shares rising 16.75p to 157.25p. A profit warning ... ... cooking oil prices and after buying plantation land in Indonesia. Pursuit Dynamics was up 32¼p to 234p after tests of its biofuel processing prototype showed good results. Property group Minerva gained another 16¾p to 157¼p on bid talk. Songbird ... Time to party with Brian Wilson BEACH Boys legend Brian Wilson and songbird Jade MacRae are urging us all to get down and dance tomorrow to celebrate the start of Sydney Festival 2008. The songbird is on the mend, and will be taking part in Sunday's show. Phew. The Daily Mirror reported how Samantha was taken ill at her home, and was hooked up to a drip, as they say she appeared to have severe flu symptoms and dehydration. The paper ... That's why people are flocking to Juniata County to see a Bullock oriole, a neotropical songbird not normally found in Pennsylvania. Here's another success: the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports that manatee deaths are on the ...
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