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 Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan never played in Columbiana, Ohio. Except on my older brother's record player. I listened to the singer-songwriter's early studio albums from 1962 to 1965: "Bob Dylan," "The Times They Are a-Changin'," "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," "Another ... LOS ANGELES-- When you're not inclined to give your product away for free, make your customers believe they're getting something for nothing. That's the thinking behind some of the offerings music fans may see this year as the recording industry ... Woody crosses back and forth with the other Dylans, who include Christian Bale as Jack Rollins, The Times They Are A-Changin' version, filmed in documentary style, and later as Pastor John, the born-again Dylan, who becomes a church minister. Ben ... Sunday I was in the yard marveling at the warm evening. Despite the pleasant temperature it was still an uncomfortable night to be out because of the wind gusts. Then I heard a sound that disturbed me, a sort of "eep, eep." I listened, but the sound ... As Dylan said, "The times they are a-changin'." Obama can help lead that change, and leave America and the world in a far better place. Arlen Grossman Del Rey Oaks Cheap shot at Biden So why was it a "rave," (Herald Rants and Raves on Sunday) for Joe ... Of course, many company chiefs do an outstanding job and earn every penny of their take. But as more and more investors begin to follow CEO compensation with a more watchful eye, the times they are a-changin'. Gone are the days when showing up to the ... That was before the era of Bernardo Bertulucci’s Last Tango in Paris (1972), and long before Mark Wahlberg played a porn star in Boogie Nights (1997). I could just hear Bob Dylan singing “The Times They Are A-Changin” and that was first ... President" (and compare in sound and spirit to "The Times They Are A-Changin'"). "Dear Mr. President, I am deeper than you/Listen and learn.../I stand for the midget, I stand for the Negro/I stand for the Injun, all hopped up on booze/I stand for the ... But not all of Dylan's chameleon antics have won the approval of critics and fans -- his decision to sell the rights for The Times They Are A-Changin' to the Bank of Montreal for a commercial and an appearance in a Victoria's Secret advertisement ... As Bob Dylan had predicted a few years earlier, “The Times they [really were] a-Changin’ ” — and it was all happening in London. But it was a very different — very serene — London to which I had been introduced in the late 1950s when I ...
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