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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 Best of Count Basie
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Count Basie
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The Best of Count Basie
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Year: 1979
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Jazz
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Home of Louis Armstrong, Simon & Garfunkel, and the great Count Basie, who wrote my entrance music today 'One O'Clock Jump ... They are doing everything they can to attract the best and the brightest in every field: medicine; engineering ... ... adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Color Purple.” However, he is likely to be best ... Count Basie, Ella, Lena Horne, Lester Young, Fats Waller, Oliver Nelson, Billie Holiday and others, during a time when their ... ... and record producer who recalled that he was 16 years old when he first heard Peterson opening a show for the Count Basie big ... to the more than 2,000 fans filling Roy Thomson Hall for the free Saturday afternoon concert called "Simply the Best." ... Count Basie and his orchestra on 1959's "Taking a Chance on Love," Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond on 1971's "That Old Black Magic ... So whenever I did get a hit, I would go in and record Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, the best music I could find." Though a ... Born in New York on May 26, 1964 (his mother was actress Roxie Roker, best-known for her role as Helen Willis on the ... musical giants as a youngster due to his parents friendships with the likes of Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Ella ... ... Sr., the legendary producer whose career went back to the 1930s and the likes of Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, and Count Basie ... by the critics (and, by some accounts, sabotaged by its own studio) but went on to become one of the director's best ... The second was to some day sing with the Count Basie Orchestra. Check and check. The former came to fruition earlier this month when it was announced that the Bay Area-based, rising R&B star had been nominated in two Grammy categories - Best New Artist ... ... mambo, rumba, cha cha cha and guajira grooves. The group's last album, 2004's "Across 110th Street," won the Best ... After finishing a week belting the blues with the Count Basie Orchestra, Ledisi will focus on her simmering originals, which are ... Duke Ellington referred to him as "Maharajah of the keyboard," while Count Basie once said "Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard." In a statement, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said "one of the bright lights of jazz has gone out ... Since jazz at its best is constantly being created anew, it is also constantly being lost. Many such moments occurred at ... tap dancer named Baby Laurence, a card-carrying member of the jazz underground, materialized to dance with Count Basie's band ...
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