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 Fleshtones
The Fleshtones, "Take a Good Look": One of the most improbably venerable indie rock bands of the last 25 years returns. North Mississippi AllStars, "Hernando": The true heirs to the Allman Brothers release a CD produced by the legendary dad of two of ... United behind an imminent new album on Yep Roc Records entitled "Take a Good Look" and recently chronicled in author Joe Bonomo 's "Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America's Garage Band," New York City's own Fleshtones are currently at the height ... The movie looks and sounds really great and the Florida locale is very colorful as are the cheer outfits. Fleshtones (and you get plenty with everyone is swimsuits) are accurate. The sound really pumps it up for the cheers. Very solid. Special Features Best New York song: the Fleshtones' "Destination Greenpoint." Best rock 'n' roll movie: Lost in Translation —I admire this film because it's a de facto remake of Meatballs , except Bill Murray is in a Tokyo hotel instead of summer camp, and his sad li ... The last time former Athens resident Robert Burke Warren performed in the Classic City, the year was 1987, he was playing bass for garage greats The Fleshtones and he recalls R.E.M.'s Peter Buck joining the band on-stage at its 40 Watt Club ... The Fleshtones continue their streak as the only band from New York's mid-'70s punk/new wave scene that's still playing without ever having stopped; the party-music professionals haven't had an inactive year since 1976. They ring in 2008 at Atlantic ... ... share the Velvet Underground, New York Dolls, and Stooges as common heritage, while all also acknowledged the importance of the Ramones. What acts like Television, Patti Smith, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Talking Heads, the Dead Boys, Fleshtones ... Key bands: the Kingsmen, the Standells, the Fleshtones, the Hives. Glam rock: Rock with fashion sense and a bag full of Maybelline cosmetics. After the glamour-deficient earthiness of the hippies, some formerly nondescript singers and songwriters (and ... SAY UNCLE: Not your average kiddie singalong, a concert by Uncle Rock - a k a Robert Burke Warren, above, former bass player for the Fleshtones - is apt to include odes to a “Rock and Roll Babysitter" and a “Picnic in a Graveyard." Expect little ... The colors on this transfer are excellent with very accurate colors and spot on fleshtones and deep blacks. The picture has a three dimensional look although there is a slight softness to the picture on occasion which prevents me from giving it a ...
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