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 Of Abba
This need not be an expensive exercise though, as there's a veritable smorgasbord of free songs available on the internet to ... If you're expecting Abba with an Abba chaser, you'll be disappointed. Author Craig Bonnell instead tracks down the best ... Maggie Savage sang 60s songs, Kev T kept the momentum going, to be followed by Neil McLoughlin’s Elvis tribute, which ... the night, getting the whole audience up to the sounds of Village People’s YMCA, with Paige giving a rendition of Abba ... ... coming this year: “He’s Just Not That Into You,” a romantic comedy with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore; “Mamma Mia!,” featuring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and the songs of ABBA in ... The exuberant, charismatic and vastly talented performer was irrepressible, bringing his ridiculously peppy songs to the stage with a wildly infectious enthusiasm. Channelling oft-cited influences including Freddy Mercury, Abba, Elton John and the ... ... declined, Rice turned instead to Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, who had only recently brought down the curtain on Abba. ... It began life, like Jesus Christ Superstar, as an album which yielded the hit songs I Know Him So Well and One Night in ... ... with trillion-selling melodies such as Go Your Own Way and Dreams. Yet the drawn-out demise of Abba’s two couplings, laid bare on 1981’s The Visitors, produced one of their worst-selling albums; maybe if the reticent Swedes would admit that songs ... Perhaps you've heard about shows like "Mamma Mia," featuring the music of ABBA, Sweden's answer to the BeeGees, or "Jersey ... The "Ring of Fire," loaded down with Cash songs like "Walk the Line" and "Sunday Morning Coming Down," is on the road ... The Frank Loesser they saw and came to idolize or fear (or admire through his songs) had many layers and facets. He was ... Abba Bogin later recounted Frank's boyhood recollections about hiding behind a parlor sofa so as to overhear his brother's ... He says the ABBA song "Take a Chance On Me" is one he really likes and when his campaign hit the rocks last year, it seemed almost a plaintive cry too. The campaign songs can't be taken too literally. After all, the tune all these candidates really ... ... King, The Beatles’ Let it Be and even a couple of ABBA Records (my father’s biggest guilty pleasure to date). The gift was incredible on one front merely because of their generosity: Those records contained sacred moments from their youth, songs ...
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