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 Unforgiven
Maybe it is best if he dies, unforgiven by some, forgiven by others," said Goenawan Mohamad, 68, the founder and editor of Tempo magazine, which was forced to close twice during Suharto's regime because of its criticism of the government. "But the ... Among my favorites: “Gone Baby Gone,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Along Came a Spider,” “Nurse Betty,” “Kiss the Girls,” “Se7en,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” “Unforgiven,” “Glory,” “Driving Miss Daisy” (he deserved ... It's too bad it hasn't been really done in a way that a large audience can embrace it, although Unforgiven was a big success, but that was quite awhile ago." Dusters, he insists, aren't passe -- they've just been ripped off for too ... Exiled: Hong Kong director Johnnie To does for gangster movies what Clint Eastwood did for Unforgiven with this fascinating meditation on honor among thieves, loyalty among colleagues and renovations between friends. Also, there is lots and lots of ... Tombstone is thrashing Unforgiven & Dances With Wolves (and just about everything else, for that matter) -- I'm glad that the TV shows are getting their due (Gunsmoke, Lonesome Dove) -- And we're getting good suggestions in the comments (Butch Cassidy ... ... trilogy, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Casablanca, Moulin Rouge, Goodfellas, Young Frankenstein, This Is Spinal Tap, Raging Bull, The Godfather, Cape Fear (with Robert Mitchum), Singin’ In the Rain, Apocalypse Now, It Happened One Night, Unforgiven ... The 24-hour news cycle also dictates that we fill the unforgiven minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run (unless you are former Mexican Presidential candidate Roberto Madrazo, whom on Monday was disqualified from winning the Mexico City Marathon ... In recent years as a director, Eastwood has gone deeper, garnering adulation and awards for scraping old cliches off the hide of a given genre - the Western in "Unforgiven"; the boxing tale in "Million Dollar Baby" - to see what lies beneath. Based on ... In our over-talkative times, absolutely nothing is left unsaid or unexplained (or unforgiven). Mr. Pinter’s The Homecoming is the polar opposite of Tracy Letts’ admired epic soap opera and dark comedy of dysfunctional American family life, August ... Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- From 2005 through the middle of '07, two of Wall Street's oldest firms were locked in an embrace that proved damaging to both. Merrill Lynch, founded in 1914, sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of collateralized debt ...
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