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 Second Coming
WASHINGTON — Was it the tears in the New Hampshire coffee shop? Whenever there is a political upset, everyone looks for the unscripted incident, the I-paid-for-this-microphone moment that can account for it. Hillary Clinton's improbable victory in ... ITV's veteran frontman tells Elizabeth Grice why he has sacrificed cosy evenings and simple pleasures to present the revived News at Ten Bong! Grand old man of television is hauled out of retirement to front prime-time news programme. Bong! Sir ... As good as Santana has been in the American League, he really could be the second coming of Sandy Koufax in the NL. He would be especially valuable to the Mets because their top rival, Philadelphia, builds its lineup around the left-handed-hitting ... When you listen to her new record, Watershed – as you definitely should if you have any interest in seriously beautiful songs – you may wonder what happened to the Canadian singer Kathy Lang, or “kd lang”, as her artfully professional alias ... TAMPAKAN, Philippines : When communist rebels attacked a mining camp in the southern Philippines two weeks ago, foreign executives grimaced. The second such incident in three months showed one of their worst fears coming true. But with mineral ... Zinedine Zidane has said he would like to return to the world of football, but is undecided about what he will do. The Frenchman who is regarded as one of the sport's all-time greats retired after France's defeat by Italy in the 2006 World Cup final ... Brain Thingys Coming to DS This Spring - Atari's second DS game for Easter release, this time a platform exclusive Coach Andy Kennedy , a former interim coach at Cincinnati, is in his second year at Mississippi. Kennedy inherited a program coming off four straight losing seasons, but he got Ole Miss to the NIT last season and should be NCAA-bound this time. ... ... at the last rugby World Cup contained four naturalised players, among them the South African-raised prop Matt Stevens, who underwent a trial of Britishness more stringent than anything the Home Office could have dreamt up on his way to coming second ... It's been something of a second coming for Hantuchova of late. She was ranked fifth in the world back in 2002 but that was before alarming weight loss made her the centre of some unwelcome press attention and led to her falling out of the top 50 ...
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