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: Soul Survivor
R&B vocalist Bettye LaVette had a Top 10 hit back in 1962 with the song My Man -- He's A Lovin' Man , but because of bad luck never found her way back into the spotlight until recently. She worked through the many lean years and found some long ... From Soul Survivor II Sessions,’ (BBE Records/Rapster, 2005) was released, in part, to protest BBE’s unauthorized, according to Pete, release of ‘Soul Survivor II,’ (2004). Pete claims the label bypassed certain sample clearances and put ... Studdard saw a pattern of diminishing returns in urban soul and gospel music. The true power of "Idol" isn't in creating pop ... Singing talent or no, "Idol" isn't so different from "The Real World" and "Survivor" in churning out short-term bold-facers. ... Hedy Epstein, is a German Jewish Holocaust survivor, born in 1924, whose parents were sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where they ... Was the visit of Camp de Rivesaltes beneficial to you, since it made you closer to the soul of your beloved mother? Hedy ... Dorothy Rodham, Hillary's mother, was a far more compassionate soul. She was the survivor of a rotten childhood, and her divorced parents shipped her, at age 8, to live with relatives. Her mother's early life helped inspire Hillary's later interest ... For anyone else, it might mark a new low, but for Marinelli, a survivor whose youthful looks belie her 20 years in politics, it ... Jessica refers to her mom as an “old soul,” a person whose passion for fairness, justice and respect often sets her ... LEXINGTON RELAY FOR LIFE: Survivor’s Super Supper, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, First Baptist Church, 415 Barr Road, Lexington. Free for ... Soul Line Dancing, noon-1, lunch 1-2 p.m.; ballroom, 2-3 p.m.; semiformal dance, 7-11 p.m. (light meal included). The ... She's been reverberating in my soul for a long time. The woman is a lover, a businesswoman and a survivor. She will do anything for her man – she has a good thing going and wants to keep it." When I spoke with the star, she hadn't seen the new movie ... Michel Veillette, 34, the lone survivor of the Friday night fire at his home, remains in "serious" condition at University ... Perhaps this poor soul had never heard of another option to his unhappiness, like perhaps, divorce? He might have gotten ... Although Solange Knowles is a busy working mom now -- her Baby Jamz line is just out -- the 21-year old singer, actress and little sister to Beyoncé was once a pregnant teen preparing for unexpected motherhood. At the start of 2004, she found out ...
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