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 Plague
This year I decided I will "just say no" to unnecessary plastic bags. I'm in good company. China has actually outlawed plastic bags. And New York City just "passed a bill requiring large stores and retail chains to collect and recycle plastic bags ... Phoenix's budget deficit is almost a third bigger than early projections suggested, creating a need for layoffs and service cuts that will likely extend to the city's police and fire departments. Phoenix needs to reduce its budget by an estimated $70 ... Robert Neville, apparent sole survivor of a viral plague, the result of a cancer cure gone horribly wrong. The film begins with news footage of the doctor responsible for the miracle, played by Emma Thompson, acknowledging her contributions on camera ... I Am Legend” -- Will Smith is terrific as a medical researcher who seems to be the lone immune survivor of a plague that has emptied Manhattan and the world of humans in this nifty, if illogical, sci-fi thriller based on Richard Matheson’s novel ... The Oregon Department of Human Services' "Biosafety Level 3" area is sealed tight to analyze biological weapons, such as anthrax, or highly infectious diseases -- SARS, tuberculosis and plague, to name a few. How tight? You have to change the ... More roads were reopened Thursday as water levels dropped. But the rising Kankakee River in south Lake County was making driving in the area difficult. Road closures Rising waters near the Kankakee River caused the closure of several state-maintained ... WASHINGTON — About 20 minutes after take off from an airfield near St. Louis, the forward fuselage of Maj. Stephen Stilwell's F-15C Eagle shook violently and then broke apart 18,000 feet above the ground. Stilwell, his left shoulder dislocated and ... Her first novel, 2001's "Year of Wonders," was set in the late 17th century and concerned the effects of the plague on a British town. Her second, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "March," published in 2005, follows the father in Louisa May Alcott's ... T he industry that flourishes most in Kenya is the security industry. Every house is a fortress, with high walls, electric fencing and armed guards. Most homes proclaim on large notices the presence of Mbwa Kali (fierce dog) to chase intruders away ... HONOLULU -- After so much good news for the University of Hawaii football team last year, the news so far in 2008 has been unrelentingly bad, including the death of a player. After going undefeated in 2007, the Warriors were crushed by Georgia on New ...
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