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: Terra Firma
This year’s most prolific rain-maker was Richard Youle, a private equity specialist at Linklaters, whose clients include Terra Firma Capital Partners and Hg Capital. Mr Youle worked on 14 deals worth a combined £2.8 billion in 2007, including ... Guy Hands’s brief personal negotiations with Radiohead’s management came in the first weeks after Terra Firma, his private equity firm, took over EMI in a £2.1 billion deal. Bryce Edge, Radiohead manager, told The Times : “We couldn’t move ... Which banking giant lent Guy Hands' Terra Firma £2.5bn to buy EMI? 19. Which bearded music industry entrepreneur and stud farm owner is thinking of selling up after 40 years in the media industry? 20. How many albums did EMI have in the top 75 in the ... In Paris, private equity boss Guy Hands, of Terra Firma, remembered fondly a "bygone era" in credit conditions at a conference for fellow financial investors. In London, Jon Moulton, head of Alchemy Partners, told a gathering of corporate finance ... According to the article, Hands started renegotiating with the band's management not long after EMI was sold to private equity firm Terra Firma. Hands offered the band a £3 million but they wanted more. The Times reports an EMI spokesman as saying ... And traffic management tools that are frowned upon on terra firma could be commonplace in the air. Panasonic Avionics Corp., a Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. unit testing airborne services on Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd., is designing its high ... Call me a cultish disciple because I precariously lean toward the religious doctrine that forces me to blindly focus on what is right in front of my face here on terra firma. Just, please, don't call me a conservative! Michelle Stratton ... If terra firma is more your thing, make your way to the hotel courts and serve up a game of tennis or squash. There’s also the Taba Heights Golf Course, a well-manicured 18-hole championship golf course designed to meet American and European ... Terra Firma (which did buy EMI) was said to be ready to sell its recorded music division to WMG. So far, that hasn't happened either. 5. Boffo "Grand Theft Auto IV" : The vidgame was supposed to bow in October, expected to break sales records and ... Imagine terra firma falling away, as you’re floating above rush-hour traffic and arriving safely home. Impossible, right? Maybe not. Anderson-based Air Buoyant, is developing a one-person flying platform called the VertiPod. Classified as an ...
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