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 QUEERS

One woman talked about "divant lifestyles," while others talked about "queers" and "lesbos." Five weeks before the Day of Silence, one frightened resident called into "30 Seconds" to say, "What really scares me is the people with warped minds ... New Jersey queers scored a huge victory when theirs became the third U.S. state -- along with Vermont and Connecticut -- to offer same-sex civil unions. Mexico City 's LGBT community got all the way to the altar, joining their cousins in Spain in winning ... What’s astonishing about all this is that time and again Reilly leads us to the brink of tears (as when a network chief took one look at him and announced, “They don’t let queers on television”), but just as things are about to go all ... He was a protester in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and, on their second day, founded revolutionary gay activist group the Gay Liberation Front. Kohler was also a member of other gay groups like ACT UP, Fed Up Queer and Irish Queers. Compiled by ZACK ROSEN The Queers, with Legbone and the Give Ups: 8 p.m. Jan. 5; Celebrity, Centerville; $10. VENUE INFO Alrosa Villa, 5055 Sinclair Road, Columbus; (614) 885-2588; www.alrosavilla.com. Free parking on site. The Basement, in Fat Eddies, 391 Neil Ave., Columbus ... The current version of the band features Puke on vocals, Murf (formerly of the punk band The Queers) on guitar, Chris Lewey (Kevin's brother) on bass and Scott Price on drums. The evening started with short performances by two local punk bands. First ... MYSPACE IS FOR QUEERS Yuh-huh. We up and did it. All 2006-ish, we finally got caught up to 2004 and leapt into the Rupert Murdoch-void balls-out , baby. (Cough.) Uh, yeah. So, send us your info the ol'-fashioned way at our regular, dependable Chronicle ... We want to know what the president thinks about those queers and whether he’s going to allow aborting FETUSES..oops I meant babies? That’s all we can manage to think about in between our Sunday church visits and all those football, basketball ... Take a look at our special “People and their Pets” section this issue. I think you’ll enjoy reading about the many different kinds of animals queers in the Carolinas like to have as their pets. David Moore Editor Want more ... For thousands of visitors, going to Cape Cod over Memorial Day weekend was much easier and more pleasant than heading home. The new $60 million flyover, which erased the hated rotary at the base of the Sagamore Bridge, smoothed Cape-bound travel on ...
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