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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Spike Jones and His City Slickers
We give each other practical gifts. (Although, I wouldn’t call his stocking-stuffer sleeve of golf balls ... The song was originally recorded Dec. 6, 1948, by Spike Jones and The City Slickers. (That version reached the top of the charts in early ... But he hadn't taken two steps beyond a posted artist's rendition of the future pond and city park before a security guard screeched to a halt in his rig and screamed, "You're trespassing." Phil responded thoughtfully: Hunh? "You're trespassing! There ... Jones, who is the subject of a new DVD collection from Infinity Entertainment, "Spike Jones: The Legend ... This hour-long show is easily the most entertaining piece of visual footage that Jones and his band, the City Slickers, left us. The Spike Jones and his City Slickers when I was in high school, back in '47 I was in 11th grade I saw Spike Jones, and danced to his music. I just kept thinking about this, and so I thought, 'Well why don't I try to throw these, so they're all ... For 11 months in the mid-'40s, Robby toured and recorded with Spike Jones and his City Slickers, the legendary horn-honking, gun-shooting novelty band that parodied popular songs and classical standards. Robby wore a red suit in contrast to Spike's ... The official musical iconoclasts of the '40s and '50s, Spike Jones and the City Slickers had a bunch of hit 78s — "Cocktails for ... Spike and his comic-kazies stormed the country in the Musical Depreciation Revue, and appeared frequently on ... Spike Jones and His City Slickers - a band in which every musician had, ah, a unique talent - made the country laugh. "The first day Earl showed up for rehearsals, I asked Spike what he did? Spike said, 'Wait, you'll see.' Earl started playing ... Spike Jones and his City Slickers were on the same train. They fed me, gave me orange juice. It was quite a trip to Yorktown, Ohio, where they left the train. Now, the rest of the trip was pretty blah. My mother drove to Philip from Custer (where I ... In among that small collection my uncle had Spike Jones And His City Slickers doing a parody of Carmen which I used to love. Then one day on a school excursion, I was about nine or 10, we went to listen to the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and they ...
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