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 Pixies
Stubot: We’ve been compared to everyone from Pixies, Pavement and Broken Social Scene to XTRMNTR -era Primal Scream, Beastie Boys and Hot Chip. NME once described us as Sonic Youth meets Klaxons. Iain: Someone once told me i play guitar like Tom ... I went to see the Pixies do a festival slot last year and wandered round all these stages full of Arctic Mongos and Snot Patrol and was utterly bored rigid by the whole thing. Dreadful. Thank God I hadn’t paid for the ticket. As for Oasis ... Busy, pelvis-thrusting beats that were themselves as diverse as this young Brit-by-way-of-the-Tamul-Tigers woman, references of songs by the Pixies and modern menaces to society like bird flu, and M.I.A.'s ever sexy, ever mesmerizing flow made for an ... We cried with joy when The Pixies decided to reunite in 2004. We were almost as ecstatic when The Police, Van Halen, Rage Against the Machine and the Spice Girls decided to follow suit in 2007. But we gagged when such lightweight acts as Aqua, Ace Is ... Captain America has come to the aid of a charity which helps seriously-ill children. The cartoon hero was among a host of personalities who took part in a non-uniform day at Felpham Community College. He was joined by a posse of pixies, some elves ... Roughly 5.5 million people watched two young Israeli women lip-synch the Pixies' ''Hey'' ; more than 600,000 watched a young woman identified only as ''Brookers'' lip-synch Chicago 's ''Cell Block Tango'' ; nearly 51,000 watched a clip called ''8 ... Sampledelic beats like you've never heard, fusing New Order and the Pixies to Bollywood and Bow Wow Wow, all of it punched up with overthrow-authority sloganeering like no one's achieved since Public Enemy was a media pariah. Furiously potent stuff. ... I could hear, especially with the guitar, how he gets those sounds, like even on the Pixies records. It was great, and he was also bringing out that live power that we have – if you heard our first record, but then saw us live, we’re much bigger ... Quaint, cute and even a little sad with McCartney cast as a rich musician living alone in the country with only his dream world full of imaginary pixies (including Natalie Portman) and his mandolin to keep him company. Plus, fans of the UK version of ... Among the re-forming and the returning were the Police, Smashing Pumpkins, Crowded House, Nine Inch Nails, Divinyls, Jesus And Mary Chain, Hoodoo Gurus, the Stems, the Spice Girls, My Bloody Valentine, the Triffids, Genesis, the Pixies and Slint. But ...
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