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: Soul Funk and Disco Classics (M)
... raps on "Barry Bonds," a slice of lazy-Southern funk. "I'm ... Growing up in the late '70s and early '80s, M.I.A. seems at her proudest when she plays the disco queen on ... what makes some rap fans gravitate toward a De La Soul or the Streets or an M.I ... In Dupont Area you have the Classics Spank/1223, PLAY, FIVE, 18th St Lounge and ... try Daylight at Bohemian Caverns, where the DJs rock classic hip-hop, disco, house, '70s funk ... We are a diverse group and tend to like hip hop, soul, R&B etc. I know this ... Indulgence Harry Denton's Starlight Room. 9pm-2am. '70s, disco, funk, and house. Levende ... Not much info on this one, except it's rocking, and the pussy is firmly in m ... Acid jazz, soul, funk, ska, reggae, and house with DJ Hofwegen. I Haight Mondays ... I'm just a soul on the planet/Trying to do good, be good and feel good," Ndegeocello ... A mix of gospel, soul and funk production styles guarantee that each track boasts an ... yet emotionally raw on "In a Perfect World," where he merges country classics ... John frusciante’s okay but I’m not blown away by him. John mayer’s music sucks (IMO); the last guy is actually ... legs and play in a freakin wheel chair for the rest of my life just to be able to play half as well and with half sd much SOUL ... ... and a knack for inserting a quiver or a tearful hiccup into her faerie-like soul ... started the trend, with its irreverent but affectionate parodies of Broadway classics ... builds from a base of lithe percussion and layers on everything from baile funk ... ... the home counties can go with nothing but a synthesizer where there should be a soul ... And then, for an hour, I’m back home, bouncing stage right at Brixton Mass. It ... Aside from blistering but pretty forgettable sets by Simian Mobile Disco and ... Welcoming a female lead adds a new dimension to the band, whose soul-reggae-rap-disco jam touches on the classics ... On the funk end of stuff, it's kind of like Chaka Khan: a little ... the Black Sheep Inn, 753 Riverside Dr., Wakefield, Saturday, 9 p.m ... ... socio-political dimension, James Brown, George Clinton and Sly Stone changed funk ... The man responsible for the behind-the-scenes work on many of the symphonic soul classics ... known songs - La-La Means I Love You, Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time), I'm ... With Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, there's plenty of material to draw from ... In its original version, it also included a live version of “I’m Leaving You ... girl on “I Need A Man (The To-To Song),” while a sly bass adds some sacred funk ...
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