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 Opera Album: Aria
The album, where Bernie Rhodes snuck on all these synthesized drums and football chants, has a horrible aspect ... celebrity, and while she can't act for beans, she sure sings the crap, over and over again, out of that aria from an obscure Italian opera ... Noble Hatch was the name of a real live boy I had a mighty crush on in the sixth grade“ said Arkansas-born Amy Miles, on part of the inspiration for her upcoming ‘concept album’ of the same name. “He had a mullet, dipped Skoal, and was an ... ... four-time Grammy Award winner whose extraordinarily varied career spans the opera ... Familiar works include Mozart's concert-hall recitative and aria "Ch'io mi scordi ... of Stephane Mallarme," which was included in Upshaw's 1991 Grammy-winning album ... Although he appeared in amateur opera productions before, he had never performed ... Audience members wept as he sang the aria. A judge wiped away tears and said, "(We ... He released his first album which is No. 1 in 13 countries. He's got a world tour ... The role is beautifully written (the Act I aria, "Che il bel sogno," is a showstopper), but challenging to sing ... EMI a few years back, has just released a new recital disc, "Live from La Scala," on the same label; the album features arias by opera ... ... removed from 2007's placid but nice Como Ama Una Mujer (her first all-Spanish album ... Rene Jacobs' Mozart opera recordings are among the most hotly discussed classical ... Never has Don Giovanni's "Champagne Aria" made so much sense, thanks to a slightly ... Lior’s critically acclaimed debut album 'Autumn Flow' was nominated for Triple J’s 'Australian Album of the Year’ and three ARIA ... Les Paul Gibson guitar and tired of rock, Bianca Jade decided to return to her classical roots and study opera ... ... incredulously when the 36-year-old announced he would sing Puccini's soaring aria ... At 16, Potts discovered opera. "I bought a cheap recording of Carreras. It was the ... Fast forward seven months and Potts has not only topped the album charts but ... ... mobile phone salesman with crooked teeth and debts to his name, into a world-famous opera star ... Last November, he released his debut album, One Chance, which includes Pavarotti’s most famous aria Nessun Dorma – the track which shot Potts to fame ... This is very much the sort of thing that 19th-century opera buffs used to write ... What makes the album doubly fascinating is what Bartoli, in her fluent but ... These will soon be made available on iTunes, and include an aria from Balfe's The ...
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