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 Rapture
The French Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution, have both deafened his contemporaries to "The rapture of the hallelujah sent/ From all that breathes". Wordsworth isn't really a Nature poet so much as he is a human nature poet. What has led to ... Anchored by Daniel Day-Lewis's uncanny spiritual rapture (acting seems a woefully inadequate term), "There Will Be Blood" aspires to tell the story of American capitalism and American evangelism by wedding Erich von Stroheim's unforgettable ... Terrorism can be a lyrical state - a condition of contagious rapture, goading its practitioners to acts of frenzied rage and purgative sacrifice which they see as glorious. Fantasy is supposed to divert deviant energies, expending them in futile ... The music sighs with bittersweet rapture. DiChiera, 72, who trained as a composer in the late '50s and spent a decade as a music professor at Oakland University before creating MOT in 1971, is no dilettante: "Cyrano" works. It pleases the ear and ... It's quite obvious I was never meant to write theater criticism. Not when I dislike this new Broadway production of Nobel laureate Harold Pinter's play, "The Homecoming," while everyone else is in rapture, declaring it a work of genius. The New York ... I see more of rapture than an apocalypse," he quipped. "There will be some rough quarters to get through, but the long-range economic outlook is an upward trend for the region." Snaith acknowledged the crisis in the subprime-lending market has ... The feel is vintage soul, but Georgia-born Jones' vocal command conveys rapture and regret with equal might. The Dap Kings follow every emotion with taste and detail, from brassy funk on Let Them Knock to nocturnal guitar twang on Humble Me . A retro ... Many whites turned to magical solutions: the Second Coming, the Rapture. Divine interventions would turn everything around. Today it will be the secular, unbelieving, or wrong-believing, liberal Northerners, modernisers, theological modernists and ... Ives does ultimately have a moment of rapture in the book, and such rapture is resolutely Christian. But his struggle with God, indeed his anger and doubt, strike me as profoundly Jewish theological concepts. Ives lives in a world of free will and ... Though they are most frequently referenced as the creators of the greatest all-time guitar anthem, “Smoke on the Water,” Deep Purple’s latest release, Rapture of the Deep, reveals a classic group that is neither afraid to embrace its past nor ...
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