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 Of Despair
Are his shifts from cheerful violence to despair fueled somehow by his new anti-depressants? And where could this lead? Tony ... But now that's changed, and Snider's latest album, "The Devil You Know" is nearly perfect...most songs fleshed out with ... These are dark songs from a band in a phase of uncertainty. Jason Isbell, a great songwriter, parted ways with the band last ... Lyrics like “I used to hate the fool in me ... now I tolerate him all day long” let you know that the despair is back ... ... featuring Sander's bagpipe, and The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond dating back from the Jacobite Rebellion reflecting the despair of the times. From their extensive repertoire (more than 23 albums/CDs produced since 1981) the trio drew songs ... So how do you get all of those songs they contain into your player? And then the cold, cruel reality hits you as you realize ... Don't despair. Using some really clever thinking, Primera Technology has taken one of its hardware products initially ... Though sometimes taken to extremes, as when songs were introduced between the movements of a symphony, this practice was ... played with even greater intensity than it was on Thursday, Copes and the SPCO strings were alive to its sarcasm, its despair ... There were no songs from the composer's "Winterreise" (which Bostridge sang here in 2004), no songs of deep despair or death such as the ghostly "Erlkonig" often favored by lieder singers. Instead, the lineup seemed to dwell almost entirely in Nature ... The father was in despair. Finally there was a local singer who found himself on the run from the authorities after recordings of his songs in praise of beautiful boys hit local markets, instantly making him famous and popular. The songs were played at ... In frustration, agony and despair, the dancers hurl themselves about on stage, voicing their frustrations in monologues of several languages, while the singer walks alone, performing an eclectic mix of operatic and Arabic songs, alone in the eye of ... He’s a tortured artist Used to be in the Eagles Now he whines Like a wounded beagle Poet of despair! Pumped up with hot air ... Ton’s of Eagles classics, plus each member threw in several songs each of their solo work. It was fantastic. Not sure ... They plot to foist one of their songs upon him. To secure his undivided attention, the singer is persuaded to spend the ... The curtain call for Some Like It Hot: when Lemmon in drag lifts his wig in despair and declares he’s a man to the old ...
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