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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Sonny Landreth
The concert at Grant Street tonight brings together The Figs, a reunion of Atchafalaya (their first in 20 years), Sonny Landreth and The Traiteurs — a group that formed to play at an early Comeaux fund fundraiser and has since donated all of their ... Though it's Christmas/holiday music season, there's no shortage of other action. This weekend and beyond, there's deluxe slide guitar, a music-driven toy drive and CD-release parties. Sonny's slide Sonny Landreth was born in Mississippi and grew up ... Sonny Landreth and the Matt Rae Trio, 9 p.m., $35, door $40. Dec. 2: Guitar Stars recital, 8 p.m., $10. 855-1300. www.townecrier.-com. Poughkeepsie Bananas Comedy Club: Best Western Hotel, Route 9, Poughkeepsie. Nov. 30 and Dec. 1: Billy Garan — Nov ... The Good Life is produced by RS Field, who has made his mark on critically acclaimed albums by Billy Joe Shaver, Sonny Landreth, Webb Wilder and Buddy Guy. Recording is underway at House of David studios, the legendary room that has hosted sessions ... A virtual who's who of pickers/singers stopped by to jam with and without Clapton, from Sonny Landreth to John Mayer, Jeff Beck and John McLaughlin, plus B.B. King, Robert Cray, Willie Nelson and Vince Gill. The music's all cream of the crop stuff ... The Mid-City Lanes hosts a great double bill with Lafayette slide guitar wizard Sonny Landreth at 9 p.m., followed by Anders Osborne. Spend an evening with blues-soul guitarist and songwriter Eric Lindell at One Eyed Jacks. Homegrown rap star B.G ... Other acts confirmed for 2008: Vic Ferrari on May 22; guitarist Sonny Landreth, Tex-Mex R&B band The Iguanas and Paul Cebar & The Milwaukeeans on July 10; and Paul Sanchez and The New Orleans Rolling Road Show on July 17. More acts are expected to be ... Blues guitarist Sonny Landreth has six studio albums to his credit, but none since 2003. ... Upsides: Another son of Louisiana, Walker has played blues guitar with everyone from Clifton Chenier to Fats Domino ... About ten years ago, Sonny Landreth told me the story of how Huey Meaux and Freddy Fender resurrected each other's careers. Landreth was then living at Meaux's Sugar Hill Studios, sleeping on a pool table and cutting some sessions that wouldn't come ... The Bull Run is a gem of a music room tucked away in Shirley, and this fall the venue shines brightly with Chris Hillman of The Byrds and Flying Burritos Brothers fame there on Sept. 29, Rodney Crowell on Oct. 5, guitar whiz Sonny Landreth on Nov. 2 ...
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