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: Staying Power
... to Carrie Underwood to last season’s Jordin Sparks, the U.S. pop charts have been littered with “Idol” alum since 2003. We take a look at just how many albums some of them have sold and which artists appear to have the most staying power. And ... It has certainly evolved (or devolved) significantly since then, but this latest wave, which we call reality TV, shows some staying power. It began with MTV's "The Real World" in 1992, and nearly all reality shows on the air today borrow from the ... As Martin Laursen stole in behind the Reading defence for the brutal headed goal that is fast becoming his trademark, the clamour from the Holte End was unmistakeable. "Sign him up," Aston Villa fans implored, afraid that the club could vacillate ... Perhaps another buzz word, after the fascination with fast fashion and "it" bags, is "long-termism," meaning a focus on things that are not just worthy classics but have staying power. Even if Venturini Fendi's backstage claim was "normality," the ... Other key findings from this research include: -- BMC Software, CA, HP and IBM continue to lead the charge in both SLM and BSM. -- Digital Fuel, Oblicore and Managed Objects have all demonstrated staying power and delivered ... That's not to say that those with six-and-a-half hours worth of staying power won't find their attentions amply rewarded, particularly if their theatrical memory doesn't stretch to a first production that made Broadway history for its exultant ... The four-legged friends, or foes depending on your wager, who compete in Turf racing's oldest Classic are renowned for their staying power. Fitting then that they run the St Leger in September at Doncaster where only the hardiest of punters attend ... Our focus is to have a multi-directional marketing campaign that will drive traffic to client websites from more than just search engines”, said Oztalay. “Our digital marketing campaigns provide websites staying power on the web.” Travel ... Illuminations at Tate Modern: Light cast on the power of religion ... As you enter Illuminations, the first piece you see is Contours of Staying by Caraballo-Farman, two artists who have worked ... BioWare's Doctors On The Power Of Leadership As part of the IGDA Leadership Forum held in San Francisco, BioWare co-founders ... the dropout rate... there's this issue of making sure we create a sustainable place, and that people think it's worth staying ...
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