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 Sauce
There are his delicate risotto crabcakes, with sweet lumps of crustacean molded into pillows of rice, set over basil butter sauce. Toothsome homemade gnocchi come in porcini cream. And then, there is the chicken cheesesteak, an open-faced baguette ... We wolfed down our appetizers - lightly fried calamari with a smoked tomato dipping sauce, mellow bluefish cakes, and cheese fries topped with spicy, chunky chili - but our favorite dishes that night were the sandwiches: namely, the fried oyster po ... Steamed Mussels with Fresh Herbs & White Wine Butter Sauce, Pan-Roasted Chicken Breast with Broccoli Rabe, Shiitake Mushrooms and Rosemary Pan Sauce, and Classic Rice Pudding with Blood Orange. FOOD FACTS Mussels: These mollusks have very thin shells ... Schechter worked in Togo from 2004 through 2006 in sometimes 100-degree heat, eating a mostly local diet of grain-based meals -- corn or millet with tomato sauce. The hardships did not matter to her because she had a significant experience working ... Except the time that I made squirrel spaghetti sauce. It's kinda like elk but gamier. Like chicken." She laughs a wicked laugh. Don't expect Cyndi Lauper to do things like anybody else. Since she burst on to the scene in 1984 swishing her colourful ... Even though today frozen foods, plastic containers and concentrates are widely available, canned foods are still popular, including soups and canned tomato sauce. In fact, it takes more than 20,000 people to make all the tin cans we use each year ... The full story -- it wasn't all cold mutton with onion sauce -- is much richer. Ms. Colquhoun, a British social historian with a light touch, describes a long upward climb of British cuisine that nonetheless includes lavish medieval feasts, exotic ... Instead, I started with the roasted Colorado lamb rack ($48) with a pasilla de Oaxaca chili sauce and a side of capirotada with guajillo chili aoli. The waitress wisely recommended the lamb be cooked medium, saying medium rare was too rare for the ... THE MEAL: In the chicken dish, breast meat can be used but using dark chicken meat gives a richer flavor that better complements the sauce. KITCHEN TIP: Using freshly squeezed lime and lemon juice is key in emphasizing the strong, spicy flavors of ... Serves 4-6 You can vary what you add to the dipping sauce. Use the palm sugar, lime and water mixture as a base and add what’s available, such as finely diced cucumber, carrot, chilli, chopped peanuts or cashews, finely chopped shallot or spring ...
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