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: Soundtrack
The camera then pans up to the empty sky before the sound of a helicopter thunders on the soundtrack, evoking war. Oh dear. No doubt Abdul feels that the image of a boy playing in ruins is poetic; in fact, it comes across as a sentimental and ... The lighting, so brashly white, starts to irritate, as does the hollow soundtrack. The challenges, which require crawling, running, wrestling, and dodging, are too simple to get caught up in. You want to root for the psyched-up contestants, many of ... My contribution to the soundtrack for the Hollywood film Dead Man Walking. I collaborated with Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam, and my uncle. Another high was working on the soundtrack of Four Feathers with James Honor. How would you describe ... If only Leonard Cohen hadn't been the soundtrack to my meal, I might have enjoyed it more. I'm happy eating alone, but it's tougher when there's a voice suggesting we're isolated and life is pointless. The only thing worse would have been another ... What one song would feature on the soundtrack to your life? Fire and Rain by James Taylor. It reminds me of the important years I spent at Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. Do you suffer for your art? No. For me, acting is like a holiday. I spend a lot of ... The sound of explosions and gunfire has become a sad soundtrack in Gaza. Most of this goes unseen in the American news media, which Omer says is totally biased in favor of Israel. Omer wants to change that. He said his work is one way to get the ... This gesture proved all the more generous when producers of the hit ABC show Grey's Anatomy picked up the song Fontana Fontaine for the soundtrack of an episode in April. "It was a big perk for them," she says. "The amount I got from Grey's . . . I ... Generally speaking there is a science to choosing an effective exercise soundtrack, said Dr Costas Karageorghis, an associate professor of sport psychology at Brunel University in England, who has studied the effects of music on physical ... While on frustrating hold with various agents, I notice the same songs repeating on the soundtrack, especially Just a Ride by Jem. Coincidence? I don't think so. Here are some lyrics: It's just a ride, it's just a ride No need to run, no need to hide It ... Sometimes what�s before you is reminiscent of A-Level class nonsense; at others, visuals and soundtrack synchronise in such a way that you�re glued to the screen like a bluebottle to splattered strawberry jam on the breakfast table. On ...
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