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 Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
... about ferns in Mexico and the origins of civilization, Sacks returns to the amazing patients and baffling cases that readers found both tragic and charming in 1995's "An Anthropologist on Mars" and 1985's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ... Sacks' book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, but what Dr. Sacks' told Mrs. O'C then, he says he probably wouldn't tell her now. He updated the story in his newest book, Musicophilia. I chose two ballads to imagine the voices inside Mrs. O'C's ... Oaxaca" was a detour from Sacks' usual studies of mental anomalies, delineated so compassionately and convincingly in his previous best-sellers "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "An Anthropologist on Mars." In "Musicophilia," Sacks ... 1 MUSICOPHILIA , Oliver Sacks (Knopf; 400 pages; $26): A collection of tales about the power that music has over people; by the author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." 2 BORN STANDING UP , Steve Martin (Scribner; 224 pages; $25): The comedian ... Having explored that territory in previous books ( Awakenings , The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ), he asks a new question: What should we make of music's strange power over the human mind? One patient, a man who was never particularly interested ... Until recently, much of what we knew about savants came from the observations of clinicians like Treffert and neurologist Oliver Sacks, author of An Anthropologist on Mars and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat . Now researchers are probing the ... In books like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” and “An Anthropologist on Mars,” the physician Oliver Sacks has given us some compelling and deeply moving portraits of patients in predicaments so odd, so vexing, so metaphysically ... ... told MyFoxPhiladelphia he has been a narcotics officer for most of his career and mistook the ... Off-Duty Detroit Cop Walks Out of Pharmacy, Finds Wife Shot Dead in Parking ... Man Convicted of Killing Parents Freed After 17 Years Tiny Monkey Dies After ... After reading the latest popular brain-science narrative from neurologist Oliver Sacks, you'll feel grateful for having the ability to "get" music. The author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat illustrates the many areas of the mind required ... Sacks is best known as the author of “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” “Awakenings” and other books in which he explores the mysteries of neurology. In “Musicophilia,” Sacks suggests that on some basic level, humans everywhere seem ...
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