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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Status Quo
BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said on Friday that Japan does not support Taiwan authorities' attempts to seek UN membership through "referendum" and moves that may change status quo of the cross-Strait relations ... There are far more protections in this plan than the status quo, and that's what most of these people have now," said Steve Maviglio, spokesman for Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, D-Los Angeles. "We struggled mightily to make sure there were ... The Ravens keep putting a spin out there that there are no worthy candidates, saying they would like to retain the status quo and keep continuity. That's bull. If they get out there, make the phone calls, do the interviews and use all their contacts ... Clearly the new status quo in this sport is fast, spread offenses with speedy quarterbacks. By contrast, Michigan was playing in black-and-white on Saturday. It is worth noting that Oregon has had its head coach, Mike Bellotti, almost exactly as long ... No year-round slog of paid gigs, like weddings and summer parades, to finance extravagances like the $2,000 costumes (that's $2,000 apiece) and the tens of thousands of dollars in props that have become the status quo for the Mummers Parade. What it's ... That journey evolves through such scenes as one staged in a school cafeteria where the students sing "Stick to the Status Quo" and a baseball sequence when the skaters feature "I Don't Dance," which happens to be Emmy Award-winning choreographer ... But the status quo before she returned was also dangerous from a U.S. perspective. Forcing some movement in the long run was in the U.S. interests." Bhutto's assassination during a campaign stop in Rawalpindi might even work in favor of her Pakistan ... Fukuda joined a growing chorus of opposition to Taiwan's contentious plan to hold a referendum on U.N. membership, a comment intended to placate China. "If it leads to a unilateral change of the (political) status quo (between China and Taiwan), we ... A week after The Times reported the sale of the Comet Tavern was pending, the sale had been finalized and the buyer's name revealed: Brian Balodis. The new owner, 31, is a banker by day who said he does not plan any major changes at the legendary ... For now, they are calibrating their mainly positive advertisements to reflect the themes playing out here: change vs. status quo politics, new ideas on domestic concerns and Iraq vs. old thinking, the need for fresh leadership, and their respect for ...
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