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 Thrillseekers
It is now the destination for hundreds of travelers every morning — pilgrims, thrillseekers and the just plain curious. Starting in the very early morning from the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine at the base of Mt. Sinai, visitors trek by ... A few colleagues might jump in and everyone would roar off to a Mongolian barbecue. Sagittarians are well-suited as travel agents, explorers, professors, photographers, ambassadors, import-export traders and thrillseekers. Get moving fast on the path ... Thrillseekers who climb aboard rides that hurtle up, down and sideways at 50 to 100 mph should have the assurance that the rides are as regulated for safety as a child's car seat or a painted wooden pull-toy. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., introduced ... ... of facemasks and jockstraps, color-coded hankies and poppers, handcuffs and ominously greased-up fists and forearms, all displayed amid an angry, scratchy-industrial musical thrum. (There's no sissyboy disco for the badass, stone-faced thrillseekers ... Firefighters worked frantically to free the terrified thrillseekers as pockets of St Kilda remained in darkness. People on the ferris wheel were the first to be rescued. Luna Park managing director Mary Stuart praised firefighters for their quick ... His advice to thrillseekers? "Two important lessons out of life from that, don't let anyone handcuff you to a post and make sure you always wear clean underwear." HO HO HO, BEEP BEEP Only 12 more sleeps before the fat bloke in the red suit shimmies ... "It does tend to turn up quite a lot of thrillseekers and fantasists, and we're really not interested in them," said chief recruiter "Mark". He said espionage wasn't a life of fast cars, fast women and martinis, and "We don't have a licence to kill His favourite ride was on a rollercoaster called the Silver Bullet, which leaves thrillseekers’ feet dangling in mid air as it performs cork screw twists. Although Thomas did not spot any celebrities during his stay he was fortunate enough to see ... Though the trek is reminiscent of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s LondontoNew York motorbike odyssey, these women are genuine thrillseekers who believe that if you’re determined enough, anything is possible. Local readers will ... REBELLIOUS baby boomers, chasing thrills from surfing, rock climbing, snowboarding and riding motorbikes, are driving a surge in hip and knee replacement surgery. The generation of non-conformists are resisting the physical constraints of advancing ...
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