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: The Art Of The Theremin
Each day we navigate the invisible in pursuit of art, success, love and survival. "Like stumbling through a dark room ... Thomas Grillo's work with the eerie-sounding theremin involves an instrument that uses invisible electromagnetic waves to ... To Longo and Lloyd, husband-and-wife bohemians who believe strongly in the sanctity of their art, the band may have seemed ... the principal songwriter, and his bandmates — Lloyd, a former classical flutist who plays accordion, cello and theremin in ... On this edition of All Songs Considered : rare live recordings from Billie Holiday; remembering a classic from post-punk group The Jesus and Mary Chain that inspired new music from the Magnetic Fields; a new single from Peter Gabriel from his ... Credited with founding 20th-century music's dubiously named exotica genre — a kind of pop counterpart to art brut that included everything from Claude Debussy's Javanese tribalism to Clara Rockmore's theremin, Arthur Lyman's vibes and chimes to ... The picture (a punked-out Frankenstein's monster with spiked hair) was not intended as album art; it was just a gift and ... Given his obsession with the dark and eerie, it should come as no surprise that the artist also plays a theremin, the chilling ... DJ Donimo presents an indie disco where music, art, fashion, drag, and flesh collide. Hot Boxxx Girls Aunt Charlie's Lounge ... This year's supersatanic throwdown features tunes from the Fuxedos, Graves Brothers Deluxe, Hydrogen Pellets, Sassy, Theremin ... Talk to the SDPBTV people and they say "No Cover, No Minimum" was resurrected because of a mission to showcase local art ... will feature The Brickhouse Boys' mesh of plunky piano attitude with rock angst and the eclectic ambiance of a theremin. "To be ... Check out art, help feed needy families Gordon College in Wenham is hosting an art exhibit that will benefit Heifer ... and more on electronic sounds set to a medley. Machine 475 , a local multimedia group featuring vocals, guitars, harp, theremin ... The album roars out of the gate with the title track, which features a wigged-out theremin over wailing guitars and a vibrado ... It's not pretty, but it's fun to make art from. Sixties-revivalist bands like AHISS and Comets take pleasure in ... ... that nightclub throws the occasional party celebrating said man, that it donates a portion of the proceeds from the art ... The nonet, which includes players on accordion, theremin, trumpet, and keyboards in addition to the typical guitar-bass-drums ...
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