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: Sufi Songs
It is true that my iPod is packed with Abdul Wahab, Sabah Fakhri and Farid Al Atrache and the Shabbat songs, and liturgy borrows freely from generations of Islamic, Sufi and secular Arabic music, but the connection runs much deeper. I am a Jew of ... ... St.), offering music lovers a unique chance to listen to neglected musical traditions such as Zar music, Nubian music, Sufi ... We change our deep, profound cultural heritage into light songs, like video clips. It all goes back to the complex we have ... ... is a description of el-moulid with so many people coming from the different governorates, and dancing sufi dancing in its traditional rhythm, and they say, ‘Allah Hay! Allah Hay!’ so we have a song called ‘Allah Hay.’ In different songs, we ... 3) The philosophy and life of Peer-Fakir (mystic healer), Sufi- Dervish, Saims, BaulBaishnob: All of them are devotees. They go on righteous way and propagate their ways and means of respective tenets. Their ideals, life-styles and composed songs and ... The upcoming Sunday, December 7 Benefit Concert dubbed Songs of Rumi: Souls Ablaze looms as a unique cultural experience -- a synergy of literary and musical performers celebrating the 13th century Sufi poet's mystical and ecstatic exhortations in ... This is surprising given the harshness with which tsarist Russia, and later the Soviet authorities, treated Sufi ... The new requirement that all theater performances and songs performed publicly should "conform to Chechen mentality and ... MS. PERINO: Because he is the commander on the ground, Helen. He's the one who is making sure that the situation is moving -- Q You mean how many more people we kill? MS. PERINO: Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row ... Gupta has always taken film music to another level - item songs and Sufi-rock tracks came into their own with his "Musafir" and "Kaante". But now the filmmaker is bored with the established sound and in "Dus Kahaniyan" he has heralded a new format of ... ... St.), offering music lovers a unique chance to listen to neglected musical traditions such as Zar music, Nubian music, Sufi ... We change our deep, profound cultural heritage into light songs, like video clips. It all goes back to the complex we have ... Even if the songs do not do well, they will certainly get noticed. The album starts of with "Ash tray" in which singer Deva ... With Sufi as its base, "Kash Laga" comes in next, which, again, has been composed keeping the theme of the movie in mind ...
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