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 Smashing Pumpkins
Founding members of the folk rock group, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, have teamed up with producers Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne) and James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins) to record their first major label studio album in over twenty years. This ... The Smashing Pumpkins pulled out because of lousy ticket sales. Another uncool trend? Bands who drive through but don't gig. (See my blog about Rilo Kiley.) Best New Local Band: Low-fi. This melodic rock trio already feels like a key player in a city ... I got to see some of one of the Smashing Pumpkins shows last summer at The Orange Peel. That is, until, I was forcibly removed by a Pumpkins security guard. Long story short, I just taped two songs from the concert and put it on the Web. Other than ... The Verve, Rage Against the Machine, The Happy Mondays, The Smashing Pumpkins, My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and The Mary Chain and, lest one forget, The Spice Girls, were among leading groups from the 1980s and 1990s to reform. Alexis Petridis, chief ... ... vehicle for his originals, many of which have the mellow rock and insistent pop stripes you’d associate with Ben Folds, or folkies like Townes Van Zandt, or maybe the Kinks, or at some other extremes Neil Young, or Traffic, or the Smashing Pumpkins ... Velvet Revolver, the Killers and Smashing Pumpkins have all played New Year's Eve parties at this rock club. Will there be any surprises this year? Maybe not, but for $60, which includes a six-hour open bar from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., it's worth finding ... Trend of the year: Reunions. 2007 was the year that myriad groups -- Rage Against the Machine, Genesis, the Police, Van Halen, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Spice Girls, Led Zeppelin, et al -- decided to bury the hatchet and get the band back together ... ... song, but if you’re looking for an updated version, check out the Band Aid 20 version — I’m just happy Bono put his signature shades on for this one, he looks creepy without them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jEnTSQStGE • Smashing Pumpkins ... The Citizen-Times, with a series of features titled “Looking Back, Looking Ahead,” notes top stories of 2007 and what’s ahead in 2008. Today’s topic: local arts and entertainment. -The Smashing Pumpkins rock band reunites for a nine-show ... ... toured with Alanis Morissette for a spell, and then trekked with Garbage during the promotion cycle for the band's 2005 LP, Bleed Like Me. He was even recruited by Billy Corgan a couple of years back to play bass for the resurrected Smashing Pumpkins ...
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