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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Sonic
No concert can justify that kind of price tag, but Cyrus & Co. managed to deliver a show that was the visual and sonic equivalent of washing down a pound of sugar with 27 cans of soda. At the start of the evening, Cyrus was lowered on to the stage in ... Albums I liked at first but grew bored of: The White Stripes' "Icky Thump" has a lot of cool, playful sonic bursts, but the songwriting ultimately sags under all that weight. Modest Mouse's "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" came to life at ... ... Dylan, 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 ... The band moved away from the sonic squalls contained on 2002's ``Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'' and 2004's ``A Ghost Is Born.'' ``Let's Not Get Carried Away'' is on the special tour edition of the CD. Bruce Springsteen, ``You'll Be Comin' Down ... The basic skills include: the "normal," which is performed by rotating a pen around a thumb 360 degrees counterclockwise when it is performed with the right hand; the "reverse," which is performed in the same way but clockwise; and the "sonic," which ... FRANKLINTON - A woman was robbed at gunpoint outside the Sonic Drive-in in Franklinton Wednesday night, but the thief was only able to get away with a Christmas gift. At approximately 9:30 p.m., Franklinton Police Department officers responded to the ... The sonic short’s concept: fittingly bizarre. Soeurs Cruz play sexy translators, who, for whatever reason, have been asked to translate a lesbian porn film. During the viewing, one thing leads to another and the two lovely ladies start getting hot ... Wed.: Sonic Sound Systems with DJ Barney, 10 p.m. Buckin' Buffalo Saloon. 294 Franklin St. Wed.: Karaoke with Sean from MB Entertainment, 9 p.m. Desiderio's on Broadway. 5827 Broadway, Lancaster. 683-7767. Thurs.: Karaoke with Bud, 10 p.m. Dockside Inn ... 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 ... Some of the recent complaints have concerned the expansion of his sonic palette beyond his typically austere approach of layering beats, keys and kung-fu movie samples. But his quirky additions make “Diagrams” more compelling than it might seem ...
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