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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Sunn O)))
I'm not really a fan of the bonus Booty Star DVD that comes with Andre Nickatina's most recent album Booty Star: Glock Tawk . Like the name indicates, it features heaps of ample buttocks jiggling to Nickatina's tracks. Regardless, I got hooked on the ... Formed in 1990 and infamous for epic, lumbering walls of buzzing sludge, Earth is widely considered the progenitor of the drone doom genre, which includes the likes of Sunn O))) and Japan's Boris. Helmed by Dylan Carlson, the band has gone through a ... ... when they make out their Christmas card lists this year to please include the following: A Recovering American Soldier, c/o ... Ask Jack Sunn appears Monday through Saturday. To send questions, write Jack Sunn, 2001 Airport Road, Suite 207, Flowood MS ... ... was wearing when she first laid eyes on him and where they practically humped each other on O’s couch ... She made clothes for herself (body-obscuring hooded capes like the kind the band Sunn 0 ... These days, drummer Matt Cameron plays for Pearl Jam and Wellwater Conspiracy, and guitarist Kim Thayill guest-stars on the occasional rock or metal album. (His recent work is heard on the Sunn O)))/Boris album Altar .) • Suggested listening: ... Together, they've logged in many miles, driving to see bands like Sunn O))) and Boris. "I grew up on metal and morphed into punk rock, then became a hardcore kid," Greenwald says. "So, I've always been attracted to anything that's sort of over the top ... The most hipster-favored style of metal is doom, as purveyed by Boris, Electric Wizard, Om, and Sunn O))), a genre founded on the down-tuned riffs and depressive vibes of Black Sabbath, whose "War Pigs" has horribly renewed applicability today ... ... Man, Mastodon, Oneida, Liars, Milemarker, These Arms Are Snakes, Minus The Bear, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Cat Power, Optimist Club, Collapse, October All Over, Björk, Grandaddy, Elliott Smith, Black Heart Procession, Squarepusher, Enon, Sunn O ... We tried to mash calypso into Sunn O))) in the office the other day and it just didn't work. What made you want to make 'tropical punk'? MV: I love that you did that. Like I said, it was something that totally took over. It just felt right . I started ... Artists: Mogwai , Kling Klang , Kid606 , Chrome Hoof , Sunn O))) , Oxbow , Wolf Eyes , Duracell , Tunng , Fuck Buttons , Shady Bard , Shit And Shine , Miasma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses , Qui , Strings Of Consciousness , Crippled Black Phoenix ...
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