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 Symphony
Larin gets experimental and goes for an ambient world-beat sound on the second disc, "Stella 13 -- When Soul Becomes Symphony." She employs a more laid-back approach to songwriting and uses her voice more like an instrument. "I think there's a whole ... ... from the likes of Patti LaBelle, the NFL All-Star Choir and soul-stirring testimonies from NFL players. The event was ranked last year as one of the "top 3 must see events during Super Bowl Weekend" by USA Today . Details: 8-11 p.m. Feb. 1. Symphony ... Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Pops series, "Cole Porter & Friends," featuring conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos with vocalists ... Guest composer Mary Watkins will also be visiting for the performance of her "Soul of Remembrance," the second movement of ... Soul, hip-hop, blues and funk are a few of the ingredients that go into the rich sound of G. Love & Special Sauce. See the ... Constantine Kitsopoulos leads the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in celebrating the songs of composer Cole Porter at Orchestra Hall ... of the privileges granted to Australia's favourite idol, Guy Sebastian , when he recorded The Memphis Album with the soul ... will be award presenters Reg Livermore and Jeremy Sims, director Neil Armfield (a nominee for his production of Toy Symphony at ... Symphony X and Epica, 8 p.m. April 26. Tickets $20 and $22. The Meridian is at 1503 Chartres St., in Houston. (713) 629-3700 or ... singer Andra Mitrovich, who played the title role in the stage musical "Love, Janis," and is a member of Austin soul outfit ... THE SOUL OF RAY: A TRIBUTE TO RAY CHARLES, 8 p.m. Jan. 19 & 3:30 p.m. Jan. 20, Hemmens Theatre, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin. Featuring Dee Daniels Tickets: $25-$63 at 847-888-4000 or www.elginsymphony.org . SOULJA BOY, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 23, Genesee Theatre ... In the immortal words of the balding, Anglo songster Phil Collins: There's something coming in the air tonight. As spring gives way to summer, there's a sense of hope and excitement making its way through Boulder County. Gone are the winter storms ... ... pop fast-lane, Kraftwerk's nuclear concept album flopped on first release in 1975, but now this superbly eerie symphony ... Move On Up, the best of Curtis Mayfield's Chicago vocal trio supplies a enthralling capsule history of Sixties soul ... Ashia Soul, Spankhouse Shakehouse, Jiffy Lube Allstars Hotel Utah Saloon. 8:30pm, $6. Book of Black Earth, Funeral Pyre ... Peninsula Symphony with Taylor Eigsti Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City; 369-4119. 8pm, $29-50. Sam Adams Quartet ...
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