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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The Bad Seeds and Nick Cave
TO ME, the Bad Seeds have always been an Australian band, and we've been out overseas making authentic Australian music," said Nick Cave at this year's ARIA awards. Probably with a few drinks under his belt, Cave was wondering out loud why his band ... Gordon White from Vancouver, Canada writes: I'd like to nominate British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell as Nation Builder of the Year. He's been the unparalleled leader of any government for the environment. From reaching out to Green Governor ... In fact, the range of people and things that can have pages is quite wide - there was at least one result each for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds , the Tesla Roadster , and Google . Also, after just a few days of life, those pages have attracted 24, 43, and ... Favorite bands: "Billie Holiday, Etta James, Fela Kuti, Les Nubians, Dave Brubeck, Camera Obscura, Blonde Redhead, RJD2, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Serge Gainsbourg, any and all of the Marleys, Elvis (like you can just drop that name in there like ... Most notably as a premium member of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Two of Diamonds is his second original solo album and follows on the heels of his first, 2005's One Man's Treasure . The album is dark and gritty, yet mellow and smooth at the same time ... It forced me into a position where I had to concentrate a lot on singing and lyrics," says the former guitarist of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds. "This time the vocals are more important, and the voice is mixed more up front." The impressionistic lyrics are ... The difference is that Harvey is content to play second fiddle, as he has done as musical director with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Simon Bonney's Crime and the City Solution. On his own, though, Harvey doesn't just share the limelight; he focuses ... And so is Nick Cave , but for different reasons. As he hits his mid-forties, the Satanic Sinatra seems hellbent on stirring up the placid waters of his last two albums with shows of boiling, intense, skin-flaying ferocity. Cave and his Bad Seeds have ... Gordon White from Vancouver, Canada writes: I'd like to nominate British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell as Nation Builder of the Year. He's been the unparalleled leader of any government for the environment. From reaching out to Green Governor ... Following their fine collaboration for the soundtrack of The Proposition , a film also scripted by Nick Cave , this latest instrumental offering from the Bad Seeds lynchpin and cohort Warren Ellis of Dirty Three, his regular collaborator in ...
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