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 Libertines
Doherty -- former singer of British rock group The Libertines, boyfriend of model Kate Moss and another British star with serious drug problems -- released a critically acclaimed second album with his group Babyshambles. But the return of old reunited ... Inspired by their local heroes, along with tips of the hat to The Libertines, they might just prove to be 2008's most exciting band. Key track - Acrylic www.myspace.com/thecourteeners :: DUFFY She's in her early 20s, she's gorgeous and has a voice that ... He was kicked out of the Libertines as he failed to control his habits. He was also arrested earlier when he had broken into a band mate’s home for stealing money. Doherty however says that he has given up on drugs after meeting supermodel Kate Moss ... NPR.org , December 14, 2007 - Pete Doherty is Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse rolled into one: a repeat-offending, Kate Moss-dating tabloid staple better known for his drug arrests than for his music. The onetime frontman of the Libertines and the ... But for the 21st-century bohemians and artists of Sadisco, whom Jett and I first profiled a few weeks back ("Low-Rent Libertines," March 3), La Fée Verte , or the Green Fairy, as absinthe was known in its heyday, is a catalyst for their perfervid ... Still, the album led to some fun opening slots with the Libertines and their old pal Jack White's band in England ... and even sold an impressive 5,000 copies in the United States with zero American promotion. In retrospect, though, the pair seems ... Sure, it's all been done before, from the British Invasion that started it all to version 2.0 starring the Libertines and Arctic Monkeys. But the Kooks are exciting in part because they make it all feel new again, if only long enough to make you smile From my perspective Ron Paul and the libertines, I mean libertarians, are anathema. Yet I would vote for Ron Paul rather than anyone in the running other than Gravel or Kucinich because when it comes to standing up to the Israeli far-right the others ... Phil Michels claims the former Libertines star broke the news during a phonecall from Italy on Friday, with Moss expected to make an official announcement in the next few weeks. Michels says Moss has had a scan, and the couple are delighted by the ... Got a Pete Doherty fan in your family? You might want to keep him/her away from the spiked egg nog. Then make him or her a little care package for the holidays. Include Babyshambles’ newly available sophomore effort and the Libertines brand new ...
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