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 Shadows' Madame
For most of the past year, the news media treated Hillary Clinton as inevitable and Mike Huckabee as invisible. In the wake of Thursday's Iowa caucuses, those judgments are looking rather shortsighted. Until recent weeks, Huckabee was regarded as an ... I also like a few key moments of Kate Winslet in Little Children —her Madame Bovary book-club defense and every moment she ... but my money's on the Mexicans), you ask me to endorse a conditional comparison between The Departed and Army of Shadows . I ... ... gains immeasurably from the natural light that streams through an elevated central skylight and also creates shadows that ... Beyond the big hits, I noted work in one room by American artists abroad featuring John Singer Sargent 's "Madame X" along ... A stiff drink. A little mascara. A lot of nerve. Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire. Charlie Wilson's War is the outrageous true story of how one congressman who loved a good time, one Houston socialite who loved a good cause and one ... Would you like that wallpaper in yellow with red roses, Madame, or blue with pink? Here's a book with all the options," or ... He comes off as a passionate devotee of fin de siecle symbolism, making art that comes out of the shadows of a dark ... The entry titled "Javy a no-risk signing; best CDs of 2007," and any of the comments about it. Let me start by saying there is absolutely no truth to a rumor that the Braves were going to bring David Justice out of retirement, but decided after the ... Only two more shopping days until I return to the final days of the City Council campaigns. Then, we'll have fun taking apart the campaigns. Any dirt yet? Any mudslinging. You know, the good stuff. Or is everyone behaving? My wife is now looking over ... Then his eyes would sink deeper, circled in ever-darker shadows. He would no longer answer to his name. His walk would slow ... Madame Bovary” by Flaubert. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Wilde. “The Metamorphosis” by Kafka. “Orlando” by ... Sunlit Shadows" by Benjamin M. Piety; and "Welcome" by Kirsten Dunst. Documentary shorts: "Carlin" by Brent Green; "La ... Madame Tutli-Putli" by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (Canada); "Paradise" by Yi Zhou (France); "The Pearce Sisters" by ... It's annoying to see ladies' menus sans prices -- those haute-cuisine habits die hard -- but should Madame wish to pick up ... The setting would seem to promise lentils with andouillettes; instead, waiters with six o'clock shadows deliver shucked ...
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