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: T.I. vs T.I.P.
The Playlist: June 11, 2007 Fans waited in long lines to hear it for themselves at the king of the south's official "T.I. vs. T.I.P." listening party in New York City. Slipping three steps down to No. 15 is Atlanta bred rapper T.I. His latest effort, T .I. vs. T.I.P. , hustles 25,100 discs this week. The album's tally stands at 1,027,400. Seven spots below is Florida rapper Plies . His debut, The Real Testament ... His new album "T.I. Vs. T.I.P." debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's albums chart. His tune, "Big Things Poppin' (Do It)," is all over radio right now. T.I.'s partner at Screamfest, T-Pain, was once described by the New York Times as "the undisputed ... In the rap-hip-hop categories, T.I. came up a double winner as male artist and for the album "T.I. vs. T.I.P." Bone Thugs-N-Harmony was favorite group. Rascal Flatts was named top country duo or group, Tim McGraw was top male country artist, Akon won ... Miley Cyrus' double-disc "Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus" slipped from No. 2 to No. 4, while T.I.'s "T.I. vs. T.I.P." fell from No. 3 to No. 5. Fergie's solo debut, "The Dutchess," held on to the No. 6 spot. Sum 41's latest Island album ... T.I. 's run on the Top 10 ended this week as he trips two places to No. 11. T.I. Vs T.I.P. is a taste away from platinum with its total sales standing at 940,500. This week the album raked in 37, 600 units. Three spots away is Amy Winehouse at No. 14 ... In the rap-hip-hop categories, T.I. came up a double winner as male artist and for the album "T.I. vs. T.I.P." Bone Thugs-N-Harmony was favorite group. Rascal Flatts was named top country duo or group, Tim McGraw was top male country artist, Akon won ... I was just about to be on [ T.I. vs. T.I.P. ]. I wanted to be on it bad, and they pulled me, 'cause I guess I be on everything. But hey, if you make everything you do great, like I do ... no lie, man. It's like, "You want Michael Jordan on your team ... Whether you are like some, such as Young Jeezy and T.I. (just listen to T.I. vs T.I.P. ), who strongly disagreed, or others like the Game who stood by him and his declaration, Esco got the hip-hop community talking and reflecting. Hip Hop Is Dead ... I thought of it when T.I. came out with T.I. vs. T.I.P. 'Wow, two personalities.' That's kinda like how I am." For other artists featured in Mixtape Mondays, check out Mixtape Mondays Headlines . For a full-length feature on the role of mixtapes in the ...
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