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: Songs in a Minor
After she makes her Faustian pact to be human and gives up her voice, the two celebrate the language of dance in "One Step Closer," one of the less bland of the many new but familiar songs (lyrics by Glenn Slater, replacing the late Howard Ashman). ... ... Indigent Song Club, the band’s shiny-headed frontman Gary Fitzpatrick is singing the medicinal praises of booze as minor ... If, by some strange fluke, the Sick and Indigent Song Club were invited to play these songs on Later... we’d be talking ... Dan Fogelberg, who died on December 16 aged 56, was an American singer and songwriter and had a minor hit in Britain with ... Songs like Same Old Lang Syne - in which a man reminisces after meeting an old girlfriend by chance over New Year - became ... It received minor injuries when it entered the store room of a metal fabrication unit and was rescued by a forest department ... Rising flames of the bonfire, colourful attires, songs, dances, peanuts and a variety of sweets marked the Lohri celebrations ... ... likes of traditional New York deli food is not a folly but, rather, a kind of integrity that finds its satisfaction in singing unheralded songs in a wholly new way. Note: Michael C. Zusman, who writes freelance reviews for The Oregonian, has a minor ... Besides Alicia Keys' "Songs In A Minor," the most hyped album of the year was the Strokes' major-label debut, "Is This It." Unlike Keys' effort, "Is This It" has thus far failed to win public attention despite critics and some late-night appearances ... But it has a number of problems that mean it will likely be little more than a minor trick in your arsenal of cool phone toys ... The Vodafone website claims over 500,000 songs available. Mobile Web: Like the TV, beautiful when it works. Fast, easy to use ... And the movie has a couple of masterfully catchy songs that kids will soon be repeating ad infinitum: They're raucous, and ... good-for-you ingredients have been pureed to the point that kids will swallow all this without protest. And that's a minor ... In this hilarious comedy, Durell (ICE CUBE) and LeeJohn (TRACY MORGAN) are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When Durell learns that his ex-girlfriend plans to move to another state with their son - unless they can get her $17,000 to pay off ... While many films are absolutely polluted with vintage pop songs, the often childlike, minimal songs that comprise the Juno ... The tone turns bittersweet with the minor-key melancholy of “Sweet Memories of You.” Arthur moves to upbeat tempos for ...
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