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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Sonic Youth

Im currently forming a band and in need of a drummer.. influences include: Liars, Public Image Ltd, of Montreal, Can, KaitO, These New Puritans, The Fall, Erase Errata, David Bowie, TV on The Radio, Sonic Youth, HEALTH, Tokyo Police Club, Eighties ... Artists: Smashing Pumpkins , Sonic Youth , The Fall , Slint , Ted Leo & The Pharmacists , Portastatic , Blonde Redhead , Múm , Modest Mouse , The White Stripes , Patti Smith , Billy Bragg , Luke Slater , Wilco , Isis , The Apples In Stereo , The ... ... Haynes also managed to land the rights to a number of classic songs ("Tombstone Blues," "Ballad of a Thin Man," "Idiot Wind," "I Want You"), some performed by Dylan himself, some pleasantly if unremarkably covered by Stephen Malkmus, Sonic Youth ... Backed by an accomplished band and joined for a cameo by Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore, Ono made clear her pre-John Lennon roots in the classical avant-garde (with John Cage and La Monte Young) and free jazz (with Ornette Coleman), as well as ... Yippie . DiS is off to All Tomorrow’s Parties’ Sonic Youth- and The Stooges-headlined and Thurston Moore-curated The Nightmare Before Christmas three-dayer on Friday morning, and we’re mega excited. We’re so excited, in fact, that we’ve ... then as usual Silver Rocket DJs playing sonic youth fugazi breeders le tigre yeah yeah yeahs mudhoney slint dinosaur jr lightning bolt von bondies detroit cobras the smiths the rapture scissor sisters pavement the cure ac/dc shellac peaches blondie ... this is SUCH a good record. i know at heart that soundwise its an obvious ripoff of JAMC, Sonic Youth, MBV etc; and yet the songs are so good (and not actually plagiaristic as such), the production so dense & loud and the energy so great that it ... Fans of Bob Dylan should consider the soundtrack to the film ``I'm Not There'' (Sony), featuring Dylan tunes done by the likes of Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, Eddie Vedder and Sufjan Stevens. Loudon Wainwright's ``Strange Weirdos: Music from and ... Revved-up guitars, trippy vocals and pounding percussion propel the songs — all of it anchored by a bedrock, feedbacky, distortive sonic clatter, a la Sonic Youth with elements of Gang of Four. 3. "Liars," Liars (Mute): Here's the headline: "Liars ... You could tell it was 2007 because it was a benefit for people living with AIDS and the DJ was playing some really recent Sonic Youth. But in some ways, it felt like a throwback to the days when people came to events like these to actually have fun. ...
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