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 To Remember
... m talking authentic country music, not the formulaic schmaltz manufactured these days in Nashville -- whose work was introduced to a wider audience by the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? If you remember the movie, you may remember two songs in ... When she was 2, she learned all the songs in the hit musical Rent and would compete with her brothers about who could remember the most words on long car rides to the family ski chalet in Stowe, Vt. At 4, she was singing Britney Spears songs. At 5 ... 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 ... I think I remember seeing that songs are going to be sold without DRM now anyway by the major record labels (pretty sure it was a news article posted on this very site). It's a sign that the record industry is ever so slowly coming around. Posted at 5 ... CARNIE WILSON: I remember the night [John] critiqued our songs. I was really sweating. I was really f---in' nervous 'cause I knew that John was gonna speak the truth, which he does. I was really looking forward to hearing what he had to say because I ... No matter how many times you hear it, it's clever and funny - that is if you haven't had too much to drink and can remember it. But that's the point. Mix the humor songs with some wonderful ballads and love songs and loud songs more attuned to ... His songs resonate in a way that is beyond any ebb and flow of fashion. “What’re you drinking, love?” asks this ... I remember the time I worked out the guitar part to Elvis’s cover of Lawdy Miss Claudie . I wouldn’t leave Dad alone until ... Remember that old Bill Cosby show 'Kids Say the Darndest Things?' Well, I've always heard kids singing along with songs and they don't know the words. "It would be hilarious to catch them off guard singing their own lyrics like 'Kids Sing the ... Remember that scene from Chak De when the girls get a pep talk from their coach? And all he says is what you all are going to ... The film had no songs, no villains, no car chases or fight sequences. Yet it went on to capture the heart of the nation. No ... GAUNTLET 3" (MTV) Remember Brooke from Denver? She was the insane chick who was constantly screaming her head off and cried ... Godfather Simon Cowell sending "Idol" baby black T-shirts and mix tapes of Whitney and Mariah songs in the mail every ...
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