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 Opium Visions
... Jersey, cut it into its component pieces using PhotoShop, and rearranged the geographic areas to represent different visions ... There’s another map inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan,” itself inspired by an opium-induced ... ... powerful symphony and a disguise of his escapades,” Jaray said. “He receives a Dear John letter and goes into an opium dream. Wherever he goes, he sees his beloved.” The five movements of “Symphonie Fantastique” portray the strange visions ... Oracles and Visions ... Antonio Scotti triumphed in the work in London and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1915 as Chim-Fen, a villainous opium den ... ... Biberkopf’s own inability to take control of his action, and society’s own lack of ado in addressing its emerging visions ... imagery the ochre luster of medieval iconography, also devout and distanced, or perhaps that of the low lamps of an opium ... Or was it simply an outburst of Opium War indignation -- for citizens of a nation with a long history of its own imperial might, the symbolic import of a carrier group sitting in a harbor like a great white shark lolling in a hot tub has got to be a ... ... grand Miami Beach hotel ...There was every color of iridescence, rainbows of vulgarity, aureoles of gorgeous taste, opium ... in a year when the Republican hovered on the edge of revolution, nihilism and lines of police on file to the horizon, visions ... Subtitled “Episode in the Life of an Artist,” Berlioz's five-movement tone poem stars his alter ego, a lovesick musician who hallucinates after trying to overdose on opium. Ling and the orchestra depicted the drug-inspired visions in vivid terms ... ... US Vietnam remnants were frenetically rooftop-helicoptered out of the country in humiliating drawdown defeat. It ended visions ... under age five from UNICEF data; and 500,000 2001-07 opiate drug-related deaths resulting from the resurgent Afghan opium ... ... fall of that country’s Communist regime in 1989, is one of 80 films from 25 countries that explore everyday life and visions ... Robert Sedlacek, Czech Republic); and Hungarian director Janos Szasz’s intense arthouse film “Opium — A Madwoman’s ... Yes, it's that time again, when our thoughts turn to the supernatural, ghosts, visions and other hauntings. And each year ... The medication had codeine and opium, which was once common. Guests have reported being awakened at night between 2:00 a.m ...
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