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 Traveling Wilburys
I’m afraid nothing short of a Led Zeppelin show - or maybe a Moxy Fruvous reunion - would be worth six tense hours of travel. It was a good show and great company, but all in all, staying home would have been a better idea. I hope your traveling ... Nearly 20 years after the creation of the band, and over a decade since the music was last available to fans, the music of The Traveling Wilburys will be reissued by Rhino Entertainment on June 12 in the U.S. and June 11 worldwide. The previously ... Mainly my props would go to the Traveling Wilburys - The Traveling Wilburys (vol, 1 and 2) and The Impressions - This Is My Country. Im not very anxious about the OF position … mainly because it seems like we have the prospects who can play the ... I suppose you can trace some of it to the wince-inducing Traveling Wilburys, where somehow Bob Dylan and George Harrison weren’t too embarrassed to be seen next to Petty and Jeff Lynne, 70’s guys who’d built parts of their reputations by being ... Ward and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard, on the album's rollicking cover of the Traveling Wilburys' "Handle With Care") -- Lewis and her mom drifted apart. Meanwhile, in 2004, Rilo Kiley jumped ship from Saddle Creek to its current and quite ... Miles Davis: The Complete On the Corner Sessions , Columbia Legacy, $139.98. Given that Davis' albums by this point in his career were intricately woven collages, painstakingly pieced together by producer Teo Macero, these entire studio sessions ... Plus you get a 56-page, hardback embossed book. $59.98. • Traveling Wilburys: Supergroup of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison was truly harmonious rather than a clash of egos. Box set features remastered classics like ... Dylan as a nice, middle-class Jewish boy in Minnesota or jamming with the Traveling Wilburys. "I'm Not There" focuses on the Bob Dylan of the 1960s, when he cut one of the most striking, revolutionary figures of postwar American culture. It sensibly ... The Franklin character may be the upbringing that we think Dylan should have had, the Gere character the old age we wish he had lived instead of joining the Traveling Wilburys. But the film leaves so much wonderfully open to interpretation, laid out ... Over the summer, Rhino Records released The Traveling Wilburys Collection , a two-CD, one-DVD box set of Dylan's 1988-'90 work with George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne. Included are all 21 songs from the band's two official albums ...
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