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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Space Art
Weekend Edition Saturday , December 29, 2007 · A new creative space dedicated to experimental collaboration between artists and scientists opens in Paris. Le Laboratoire is the brainchild of Harvard bio-medical technology professor David Edwards ... the subtext of that Jean Francis story (Tales of Two Artists) is pretty frightening! What sort of 'chemical tank' did they discover in her building? What sort of 'chemical' would cause the city to evict her? How many more of these things are out ... Hundreds have participated in NPR programming since its inaugural five-day run at Oakland's 21 Grand art space in 2004, and NPR has set up shop in Serbia, Chicago, San Jose and Hamburg, Germany. Its long-standing partnership with San Francisco's ... During the celebration of the opening of Palazzo Grassi, Pinault's contemporary art space in Venice, the trees ascended from the tables and hovered a few feet above the heads of the guests. Ost, 52, still won't reveal how he got the trees to float in ... The Phoenix mayor and City Council are to be congratulated for choosing to move forward on the public art for the civic space. Great cities deserve great art. As some say, when we remember and talk about great cities, we talk about their art and ... This upscale fish-house chain brings both retro classics and contemporary inspirations to a soaring art-deco space. It's now on Chef No. 4 (David Wiederholt) since opening, but a recent lunch revisit brought consistently satisfactory results. The ... This month's talk with Ken Burns is being held at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center due to space considerations. First Wednesdays is supported in part by the Institute of Museum & Library Services through the Vermont Department of Libraries. Brooks ... I loved Ofelia’s thrift store, but I loved the idea of a downtown music and art space even better. What a bummer — and an avoidable one, at that. Best warm-weather trend Dressy Bermuda shorts. At first, I was skeptical, but now I can’t say enough ... Art space of the year, Rule Gallery No other commercial art gallery in Denver matched Rule's high-quality line-up of shows this past year. Leading the list were an elegant, site-specific installation of Kim Dickey's garden sculptures, a quiet ... The first-floor Stutz Art Space, scheduled to open in January, will host exhibitions, classes, workshops, and other events. “This will give us an opportunity to show 12 months out of the year,” Points said. It also offers more room to teach. A full ...
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