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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Soulwax
DJs at Studio B in Brooklyn, N.Y., are known for their prescient music selections, making this the place to hear the next Soulwax, LCD Soundsystem and Rapture. What's more, being hidden in a hard-to-find corner of Brooklyn means that only the die ... A second disc of remixes from such indie-dance luminaries as DFA, Hot Chip, and Soulwax is less engaging. Gorillaz is bubblegum pop for those too cool for Justin Timberlake; who would want to have their three minutes of pleasure tampered with? [Saul ... Soulwax Return For Club Tour by Staff | 03.29.2007 Remix-masters Soulwax are heading back to the US. Following their acclaimed tour last year, where the band wowed hipsters from coast to coast, they are returning to our shores for another dancefloor ... ... Brazil’s globe-trotting sextet CSS, Simian Mobile Disco (catchy guitar hooks, happily demented wailing, disco beats), dance-punk bastard children MSTRKRFT (from Canada, but kings overseas), Madchester-influenced-turned-mashup-instigating Soulwax/2 ... And -- unsurprisingly -- the DFA reconstruction of Soulwax's "NY Excuse" is in second place. GK: Any surprises so far this year? Songs you hated that went on to become hits? Songs that bombed that you might ... Artists: Placebo , Soulwax , Pearl Jam , Slayer , Hope of the States , Killswitch Engage , Mastodon , Broken Social Scene , Goldie Lookin Chain , My Chemical Romance , Hot Chip , ¡Forward Russia! , Bullet for my Valentine , The Kooks , Lady ... Soulwax, Mylo and Justin Robertson will all be doing DJ sets. We have the midnight slot, which is always a difficult one. In all honesty we haven’t even planned a set list. We’ve just been so busy. We have just come off a tour with Underworld in ... In the remix zone, Soulwax reconstruct the whole thing in order to give it the sort of drop that would make the Grand Canyon feel a little diminished, whilst the less-great-but-still-good Boys Noize reappraisal offers slabs and slabs of diseased bass ... ... when over 50,000 fans flipped their proverbial lids to spectacular performances from such once-in-a-lifetime, gold-ticket music luminaries as Pixies, Beck, Pet Shop Boys, Groove Armada, Gnarls Barkley, Phoenix, The Rapture, Jarvis Cocker, Soulwax et ... Music taste: Cable/The Mountain Goats/Rebus/the Heartwear Process/Fountains of Wayne/Brendan Benson/Ben Kweller/Ben Folds/Chris T-T/Jetplane Landing/Snow Patrol before they went a bit keane/the Long Winters/Soulwax and that 2ManyDJs malarky/Jeff Lewis ...
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