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: Soundsystem
New York dance-rock group LCD Soundsystem has taken top honors in the Village Voice's annual critics poll, where its album "Sound of Silver" was named the best album of 2007. Radiohead's self-released, name-your-price collection "In Rainbows ... DJ Carl Cox has just wrapped up the Sydney leg of the Big Day Out tonight (January 25), as over 55,000 fans packed Sydney Showgrounds for the third date of the touring festival. Fans watched artists including Rage Against The Machine , Dizzee Rascal ... LCD Soundsystem are celebrating after their Sound Of Silver CD was belatedly named the Best Album Of 2007 by prestigious publication Village Voice . The dance band, fronted by James Murphy, beat out competition from Radiohead's In Rainbows to top the ... The Reminder ( Feist ), Kala ( M.I.A. ), Neon Bible (the Arcade Fire ), Cross ( Justice ) and Sound of Silver ( LCD Soundsystem ) have all made the cut as finalists for the Shortlist Music Prize. Also in the running are In Our Bedroom After the War ( Stars ), Sky ... High energy funk/jungle/reggae/hiphop crowd favourites Sunshine Soundsystem will complete the stella lineup which also includes DJs Dick Johnson, Tim Phinn, Dunsta, Takas, the fabulous Minuit and Drum and Bass legends Concord Dawn . Reggae originators ... Then over the past couple of years I've got into bands like Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club and LCD Soundsystem and Peaches, a lot of bands who are quite aggressive but poppy. And Jules who came from a kind of songsmithy background, he got into really ... In addition to resident DJ Michael McKeown, live percussion and live vocals courtesy of MCs Krow and Kat, the ever-popular Explosion Soundsystem will also be making an appearance. The Belfast-based reggae DJ/MC collective have been busy over ... Like Joni before her, Feist's strange charms also extend to soothing the Original Man. Now, I'm still trying to figure out the hoopla over LCD Soundsystem, but I remain quite comfortable holding down the minority opinion on that one up in this ... Chan Marshall's cover of "New York, New York" isn't the best Manhattan tribute to spill out of the indie scene in the past 12 months – that honor belongs to LCD Soundsystem, which penned the supremely odd "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing ... LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy clearly has more on his mind than just laying down the ace songs from his album Sound of Silver for Big Day Out audiences. His wife, meant to accompany him on the tour Down Under, is instead stuck at home in New York ...
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