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: Stuff
MERCER ISLAND, Wash. - Chip Wall can't help but zero in on the little stuff whenever he watches Barack Obama on TV. The turn of the smile, the sharp wit, the comfortable self-assuredness, all of which he saw up close, a half-century ago. It's his old ... Hurry up and do touristy stuff before the sunshine arrives. Soon enough, you'll be flooded with summertime visitors who will expect you to know where the Sears Tower is, how much it costs to go to the top, and what the heck you actually get for ... I explained what it was, and my situation, showed him the half bottle remaining, told him this was premium stuff and might he like to take the rest home and kick back and perhaps sip a couple glasses after dinner with the wife in front of the fire ... Beef is king here, of course, whether it be the Piedmontese steaks (American raised, leaner than most), the American Kobe (wagyu) steaks or, for the true aficionado, genuine Kobe "A5" beef, the top-quality stuff, which will set you back $150 for a ... There's a lot of officials that have a personal life, and you have people in this community who have nothing better to do than scrape up stuff like this." The mayor's MySpace page is now blocked to all but her friends. Still, some residents of the ... Then a couple of kids from our table turned and talked stuff back. "The next thing I knew, cheeseburgers were flying, trays were flying. Everyone ran out of the cafeteria." For the next week, Thumel said, students were dismissed from lunch one table at ... Which is what may make some parents uncomfortable: not the bad stuff their sons and daughters will see, but the difficult stuff they may find themselves asked to explain. The same Christmas Day, my son, who is in sixth grade, went to see "Charlie ... According to a story that ran in the Los Angeles Times, Kulukundis got a warning and "a child actor who she discovered could memorize two pages of dialogue with one reading and didn't fidget or blink or any of that normal kid's stuff. He would stand ... Sexual things and stuff. When you and your girlfriends get together, you talk about sex? Of course. And about men in general. We may say, "Oh, look, he's got small feet." (laughs) We'll start to laugh. I've had photos of me with certain women - very ... Eventually the buddy comedy stuff falls away, and the movie puts these two through their emotional paces. Freeman needs a break from his long marriage. Nicholson needs to get in touch with his softer side - and, uh oh, his estranged daughter. Freeman ...
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