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 Black and White Album
... Go Away White" (March 4) To the delight of unnaturally pale music fans, the Brit gloom-meisters reunited after 22 years for a 2005 tour. But Bauhaus has broken up again. The group reformed long enough to record this comeback/farewell album. BLACK ... The Hives are set to play a series of shows across the UK in April, it has been announced. The Swedish rockers are supporting their fourth studio set, The Black & White Album, which hit UK shores last October. The follow-up single - We Rule the World ... ... monthly mortgage payment or a trip to the supermarket, the spare cash we used to burn in Topshop or on the latest album ... People want the situation to be black and white, but there are shades of grey.' If the spending spree is ending, Britain's economy ... First and foremost is the white-soulful, emotionally honest voice, a gloriously far cry from the ... That she’s also responsible for a debut as accomplished as Rockferry , the best pure pop album since that other Amy’s Back to Black , is the ... They claim the leap in technology is as significant as the switch from black and white to colour, and rave that new screens allow ... Similar to downloading mp3's, you don't get the cool album art etc, you just get the meat and potatoes. (Full disclosure ... With the help of Bonnie Bramlett from Delaney and Bonnie, Average White Band recorded its second album and also met Joe Sample and ... Average White Band audiences have always been diverse, with a mixture of young and old, and black and white. "It's ... The memo says that three White House staffers saw the movie, which is a fictionalized account of tiny all-black Wiley College’s debate team in Texas beating that ... Jean has just released a new album, "Carnival II," on Sony’s Columbia Records. The ... Ultimately went with the live Black Keys album at 9 and White Stripes at 10. Any of albums in the upper half of my Next Best list could have made the cut: * Spoon's "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" -- so fresh and so lean, lean, with a terrific pop sensibility. ... Amy Winehouse's hit album Back To Black has topped American magazine Maxim's end-of-year readers album poll. The release, which was ... Rihanna's Umbrella was named Best Single ahead of Winehouse's Rehab, and Radiohead beat the White Stripes to the Best ... ... the Cable Guy and a few thousand of his friends from a helicopter (with parachutes) into a metro area, you'd create more demand for country and perhaps album-rock stations, which would be nice for white listeners. But the influx wouldn't help black ...
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