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: Stiletto
But another strike against her was a photo shoot in Paris-Match in which she posed in black fishnet stockings and stiletto-heeled boots - the equivalent, for the sober people of the seventh, of dressing as a lapdancer. "We don't understand at all why ... I've seen people dressed up in alien and Elmo costumes on Hollywood Boulevard, and I've seen drag queen stiletto races in Washington, D.C. But the Harajuku scene is far from what I've experienced. At the train station, where all of the wacky people are ... More disagreements followed and it was only after cameras, children and stiletto-heeled shoes were banned from the auditorium and all spectators removed from the first seven rows that he started to concentrate. He won 12.5-8.5. Commentator Bruce ... Gurgian, a Romanian immigrant, holds up a black stiletto-heeled boot to demonstrate why: ‘‘Ninety-nine percent of the shoes are no good today - cheap quality, rubber soles, very pointy,’’ he says. ‘‘Glue is not good for anything.’’ When ... I rubbed elbows with grimacing babushkas and beautiful young women who flaunted their long hair, short skirts and stiletto heels, a perilous choice on cobblestoned streets. I ate pelmeni (Russian dumplings), borscht, stuffed cabbage and black bread ... Cleary then explains that men respond not only to the physical aspect of the stiletto, but more to the confidence the woman wearing them is projecting. The heel is aesthetically pleasing to them but the woman who is confident in her newly "heightened ... But the jukebox is always popular – you can tell by the amount of stiletto dents in the floorboards around it.” Given the Hawley’s famous customer base, are there not a few punters who are more discerning in their choices? “I don’t want to ... ... often heard from Dan Maskell, whose only cry of "Ooh I say!" in connection with female attire came when a handful of teenage girls - in an amorous charge towards Bjorn Borg - made a mess of Wimbledon's hallowed Centre Court turf with their stiletto ... I am not speaking of the latest stiletto styles or the pair with this season's cut or heel. Look for those that will serve you well going forward. This is when you can take advantage of significant savings on a pair of designer knee-high boots made ... Styles run the gamut from the serious sturdy boot you could wear to hike through a snowstorm to high-fashion styles with stiletto heels and lots of fancy trim. “If you’re going to be trudging around in the freezing weather like we’ve had ...
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