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: Southern Accents
Speaking in a heavy Irish brogue, undimmed by the decade she has spent residing in southern West Virginia, Hodges’ voice ... Saoirse has an amazing ability to memorize scripts, but is equally impressive with her ability to speak in different accents ... In Chile, they have a pretty sophisticated medical system. . . . But in the northern and southern parts of the country the ... do, like my son Tom, is sit there for 15 minutes and enjoy a conversation. You have to pick up the nuances, the accents. Other members have a distinct Southern drawl dotted with extended vowels. Those accents are beautiful to me because they splash color over otherwise gray objects. The long, relaxing way syllables melt brings me to a warm summer's night under a ... I was born in southern New Brunswick, but didn't get a chance to learn french as most francophones lived further north. Since learning quite a good level of french while working with professionals in Montreal, it has been useful to me working and ... Barbara Marten is bitterly enthralling as Amanda Wingfield, a Southern belle who has fallen on hard times in depression ... Yet, for all that is good, lapses in the accents and the lilt of the language are compounded by slipped lines. There is a ... Let's take that analogy further, because Melbourne really is like Northern California with cricket and Australian accents ... Mediterranean Wholesalers, the biggest continental grocery store in the Southern Hemisphere, where the bargaining in Italian ... ... as not, players who had been brought to the locations on planes with blacked-out windows had no idea where they were. A participant in one exercise recalled that "we knew we were in the South, because the people serving the food had Southern accents ... ... times, is "very rustic and elemental," she says — "castles of red earth called casbahs," and furnishings and accents made ... As the Arab empire expanded into areas of southern Spain, Andalusian elements including the Roman column and "the archetype ... Former New York Rangers defenseman Brian Leetch , 39, waves to the crowd holding his son Sean , 2, after his banner was raised to the rafters before the hockey game against the Atlanta Thrashers on January 24 at Madison Square Garden. Brian is the ... Indeed, far from being the mark of " hick " provincialism, certain Southern accents "are so refined they rival that of the English Aristocracy (most of southern planters were cousins of them). The upper crust speech of 18th century London and the ...
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