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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Stare
Judging by today's front pages, Hicks has practically single-handedly destroyed much of the liberal humanism of western press tradition; at the very least, he has no doubt made it impossible for Rupert Murdoch to stare for too long at a photograph of ... Instead of a hollow stare to end the conversation, Beem whipped out his cell phone and called her. “Mom? Hey, it's Rich. How are you? I'm in North Carolina this week. Hey, listen, there's a guy here who says he's related to someone who you might ... Maybe Mebane could stare down the analysts and let out a guttural bark, like the ones he lets out during goal-line defensive situations in practice. Seriously. Mebane sounds like a sea lion. He also makes games pretty lively, too, with his break ... Crowded hallways part, classmates stare. Juno pretends to be unconcerned when her Tic Tac-guzzling boyfriend asks another girl to the prom. As the convenience store clerk announces when Juno shakes the stick of a home pregnancy test like a balky Etch ... Instead of employing dancers to distract people from noticing her poor lip-synching and blank stare, the album uses high-priced dance-music producers and songwriters to support her and still falls flat. Bad is still bad. -GLENN GAMBOA 50 CENT. Nothing ... He likes to stare down his receivers a lot,'' Pegues said. ``He didn't look off his receivers the whole time. We came at him on the blitz and made the play.'' Not that Carroll was having a much better game. The Fort Lauderdale native was 8 of 18 for ... Oh, they often stare, then say, ''That's gross.'' But at least they have that connection, gross as it is at some level, to a food source. Where I have not been as successful is in hunting, which I consider my strongest connection to and understanding ... Don't stare at your finger as you point to the moon." I'm afraid most organized religions have concentrated on their dogma as they voiced the goals of peace, love and hope. Christopher Hitchens's book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons ... People will stare at you, then at each other, shoulders being lifted in a shrug. Finally, the silence will break with, "How many drinks have you had?" or some such jest about you being slightly inebriated or too tired to know what you are saying ... Faster than a Tom Brady-to-Randy Moss slant, Saturday night's Patriots-Giants game has gone from widely unavailable on TV to practically inescapable. Until Wednesday, it looked as if the Patriots' quest for regular-season perfection would be ...
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