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 Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger has been a staple of American musical and political life for so long that he feels like a feature of the landscape ... that emphasizes Seeger's music, acts of conscience and public service, and tells the story of a century through such songs ... The band's second album, "Drink from the Well," features original songs and Malvina Reynolds' "God Bless the Grass," popularized by Pete Seeger in the 1960s. There's no cover for Friday's show, but be prepared to be tempted by Red Hot and Blue's ... ... bought for his father, in the hopes “he’d be easier to live with,” about how he discovered the music by seeing Mississippi John Hirt at a topical-songs workshop at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival along with Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger and ... During the 1940s Guthrie performed with many other popular musicians including Burl Ives, the Almanac Singers, Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter, Pete Seeger and Josh White. Guthrie continued to write songs. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 1 ... He was influenced then by Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Geoff Muldaur, Woody Guthrie, Lonnie Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, Sonny Boy ... Roger has also had songs featured in the films "Love Delivered" and "Rutland USA." "One thing I know is that I am a decent ... A preview of the holiday movie season in today's Weekend Cue section lists "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song" opening Nov. 30, but ... A compilation of summer songs in the Weekend Cue section Friday incorrectly stated the title of a song by Sublime. The ... A large group of the walkers, centered on folk-singers Pete Seeger and Gil Turner, sang "I Ain't Gonna Study War No More," "You Can Dig Your Grave in Your Own Backyard," and other songs of protest. Arriving at Washington Square, the group was ... Springsteen played the tune frequently last year during a tour for his album of songs popularized by Pete Seeger, and it made for an uncharacteristic, if joyful way to finish his first night on tour. Contact Eric R. Danton at edanton@courant.com. More ... In addition to outrageous songs, comedy and ballads, the singer-songwriter has created an award-winning children's book ("The Tree"), has won the Earth Hero Award and the Skipping Stones Honor Award, and has been called "a modern day Pete Seeger" for ... Reading Ricks, you'd never guess "Positively 4 th Street" has anything to do with Phil Ochs or Pete Seeger. This single, notes ... He portrays Dylan's strengths as a kind of pure field of creativity, sidestepping reams of songs and unlistenable albums ...
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