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 Islam
... is true that my iPod is packed with Abdul Wahab, Sabah Fakhri and Farid Al Atrache and the Shabbat songs, and liturgy borrows freely from generations of Islamic, Sufi and secular Arabic music, but the connection runs much deeper. I am a Jew of Islam ... When one listens to my songs, there will be a strong Islamic feel to them. It is because Islam is important to me, not because I am ‘an Islamic artist’.” Yusuf claims that his next album will probably be more mainstream. “There will be songs ... Men and women sitting in separate areas awaiting the results of a lottery that would send them to the sacred cities of Islam ... The group collectively wrote most of the songs on the album and Dindar's wife also contributed to the lyrics. Islamic rock ... A consummate entertainer, the piano man writes the songs the whole world sings and sells schmaltzy romanticism like a deli ... Michigan's underground star One Be Lo (aka OneManArmy) converted to Islam after a stint in prison starting at age 18. When he ... ... by Brother Craig Renfro, papers by Sister Lois Jones and Sister Deborah Young, solo by Brother Billy Ray Henry, and songs by ... Topics will be “Islam and Voodoo Practices,” “Breaking the Chains,” “Christianity in the Workplace,” and “The ... YOOOOOOOOO! What is the deal? Somebody done went and made Soulja Boy mad! I’m not going to even start with it, I’m gonna let Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em! Wuz hannan dis ya folk Soulja Boy I just wanna let all my fans know that rumor about me having a ... ... banning the film, would only be enforcing the law, which prohibits the screening in Egypt of any film that might defame Islam ... Even the film’s title follows the tired trend of using lines and titles from classic Abdel Halim Hafez songs. You’ve ... I am not sure if BET is looking for new hosts on “106 & Park,” but I heard a rumor that might have been confusing things. From what I heard, BET is looking to do another Hip-Hop show. I did hear that they had open casting calls for that as well ... Their songs remind me of my upbringing in Cairo during the 1950s and 1960s when it was still an open cosmopolitan embracing ... I am not familiar with the Islam promoted by radical groups because it is based on rituals, not essence. >Is your ... Singer Khaled Aggag is reportedly recording the title songs for the serial. Waad El-Hor (The Promise) Directed by Mostafa El ... A serial focusing on women’s rights under Islam from an Upper Egyptian perspective as told through the story of Nawara ...
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