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 Love
BETWEEN the lyrics, rendered in F (extremely) sharp, and the back-up vocals performed by a chorus line of lawyers, Peggy Sued, the sequel to the Buddy Holly and The Crickets original, contains none of the saccharine sweetness of its predecessor. Don ... Since 1990 the Lion's Pride of Lincoln Elementary School — an elite choral group — has delivered love songs along with a cup of Hershey's Kisses and a Mylar balloon. The sender can select from "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," "That's What Friends Are ... NPR.org , January 18, 2008 - The Magnetic Fields may build albums around high concepts — see: 69 Love Songs , i — but Distortion is built around a sound. Not surprisingly, Distortion is 13 tracks of exactly that. "California Girls" hums and ... After he released his debut album "The Love Experience," Raheem DeVaughn drew a lot of comparisons to the gifted but now missing-in-action D'Angelo. Like the neosoul king, DeVaughn's love songs were passionate and sexy, and his sensual tenor could ... Their jaunty songs rib rich kids’ affectations (“As a young girl, Louis Vuitton, with your mother on the summer lawn/As a ... combating the tyranny of the 4/4 beat. “He’s become a bit of a hate figure in Britain,” Wilder begins, “but I love ... Among his best-known works are "Half as Lovely (Twice as True)," "If I Had Three Wishes," "Love Looks So Well on You," "Sleep Warm" and "So Long My Love." In addition to Sinatra and Astaire, other artists who sang Spence's songs included Dean Martin ... As the title indicates, the album is a thunderous rock 'n roll call-to-arms featuring Kravitz singing songs of a love revolution backed by a universal blend of soul, funk, and jazz grooves and the undeniable, anthemic lyricism that's been his ... How well do you know...? Christmas is fast approaching and you can't wait to "deck the halls" and "ride in a one-horse open sleigh." You love Christmas carols, and you take great pride in the fact you can remember the words to all of the songs... or ... When the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra hits the road for its first tour of the year, stopping Thursday at the Santa Cruz Civic, it will have Duke Ellington on its collective mind and on its music stands. "Ellington Love Songs" is the official ... She comes into Detroit and helps solve problems of racism and teen pregnancy with the power of love and teen pop songs," Willis told Pitchfork Media. Case will voice the Strawberry Shortcake pop princess, but will not actually sing in the show, to ...
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