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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Supertramp
Practical-minded filmgoers may find the story of doomed wanderer Christopher McCandless, aka Alexander Supertramp, a bit absurd. But anyone with a touch of poetry in his/her soul will find in this artfully assembled film a sense of rapture for both ... Giving away his savings to charity and destroying much of his identity by abandoning his car and burning his wallet, McCandless adopts the moniker "Alexander Supertramp." Emile Hirsch, who stars as Christopher McCandless, gives such a credible ... Well bred on Paul McCartney, Supertramp, Oasis and Squeeze, this Sussex quintet immediately hooks you with singalong "ooh-ooh-ooh" choruses. But beneath that seemingly shallow pop immediacy lays a fantastic and timeless soft-rock record. 8. Robert ... Each time I see and feel the cold, I think of those words of W.H.Davies, the famous rural poet and 'supertramp': Come, lovely Morning, rich in frost On iron, wood and glass; Show all your pains to silver-gild Each little blade of grass . After a ... ... eyed nature worship from "Into the Wild," it becomes clear that Penn cares deeply about presenting this spoiled, privileged, misguided kid as someone we should care about. (You have to have a pretty huge ego to rename yourself Alexander Supertramp ... ... book tells a more well-rounded account of McCandless’s life and interactions with others, Penn wisely keeps his lens trained solely on the existential hero as he tramps about the southwest, west and Alaska under the new name of Alexander Supertramp ... Telling the customer it was probably one of the 100 greatest albums ever recorded, I’d directed him to Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America:” The base for “Cupid’s Chokehold,” of course, is “Breakfast in America,” but they ARE two ... He gave away his life savings, adopted the pseudonym "Alexander Supertramp" and wended his way to Alaska where he spent 113 days in an old, abandoned bus. Penn directs his movie with plenty of lyrical passion for its subject, almost as if he'd ... They include the South Dakota grain-elevator operator Wayne Westerberg (Vince Vaughn); the neo-hippie earth mother Jan Burres (Catherine Keener), who sees in Chris—who was by then calling himself Alexander Supertramp—the ghost of her own ... Eagle Rock also has recently-released DVDs of Pete Doherty's Babyshambles, hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, former Supertramp leader Roger Hodgson and many more documentaries and concert films previously considered in this column. "Santa's Playlist," Sister Hazel ...
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