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 Ska Album
A percussion-based style which is characterised by a skanking off-beat rhythm (think of the jerky energy of Jamaican ska ... The song Tres on my new album has a vallenato sound and I think that is my favourite style from Colombia. We have a lot of ... Records garbage: pop-punk and ska bands like Screeching Weasel and Operation Ivy, as well as the Ramones (whom I loved, but ... It was like Ozzy's early-'80s album covers, where you look at the forced ghoulishness, say, "Wow, that's hard-core," then ... Noble Hatch was the name of a real live boy I had a mighty crush on in the sixth grade“ said Arkansas-born Amy Miles, on part of the inspiration for her upcoming ‘concept album’ of the same name. “He had a mullet, dipped Skoal, and was an ... ... known as the "Rehab" chick with the drug habit, not as the gifted singer-songwriter who created the most compelling album of ... But you'd never guess that by listening to her charming debut, buoyed infectious ska-pop beats and wry lyrics. Like ... Flutist Robert Mirabal whose newest CD, "In the Blood," recently won the Best International Album at the 9th Annual Canadian ... Swing, and its cousin ska, were the antithesis of the grunge scene. Swing brought back tight, fast, fun dance music played ... Veteran ska/pop-punk band, Reel Big Fish, talks to Frantik about their latest release and more. Robber’s on High Street just released “Grand Animals” and is a currently on tour in support of the album. Blasko is the wildman bass player of Mr ... Their sound is a unique, original combination of gospel, ska, soul, reggae and rock. The band proved that it has still maintained current and universal appeal when it won the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album with "True Love". The album ... This band of Mexican rockers are on tour in support of "Sino," their first studio album in four years. Cafe Tacuba formed in the early '90s near Mexico City, fusing a blend of ska, punk, hip-hop and countless other influences. They'll be playing ... Probably — as proven by Allen's U.K.-released album, Alright, Still , her sleeve is adorned not just with her heart but with ... music of a black origin carries and there's only so many things you can team in with hip hop, and that's why calypso and ska ... Bobaflex's new album 'Tales From Dirt Town' hits stores the day before Halloween but this week we'll get you primed for it as ... The Rehab hitmaker, 24, has teamed up with the Babyshambles to record a "ska-type" single close to Doherty's clinic in ...
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