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 Yin and the Yang
Keith Moore's lamp that holds Japanese paper in a wire cage inspired by a gardener's tomato frame, Tom Oliphant's crazy yin-yang rocking chair, Bert Taylor's prototypes for playful assemble-it-yourself furniture, and John Nesset's magnificent bench ... RING IN THE (CHINESE) NEW YEAR: Celebrate the Chinese New Year with Yin-Yang Cookies, which are made by interlacing logs of vanilla and chocolate cookie dough. Let's get this out of the way: I don't like Chinese food -- at least the kind you usually ... GRAND BLANC -- Twins Brennon and Alonzo Edwards of Grand Blanc are as opposite as yin and yang. Brennon shaves his head and is as clean-cut as a business exec. Alonzo sports dreadlocks and looks like he belongs in New York's emerging artists scene ... Via the female authorship of those books, I think a universal God is trying to tell us something about balancing yin and yang. None of these teachings advocate violence in God's name, nor do they exalt the female over the male. What they leave ... It was a match made in heaven - like yin and yang," said Sans. "We were something he'd never done before. He's really into classic rock bands, plays piano and has this big collection of vintage keyboards. It was so weird; I never would've expected ... Plus they’re winning awards out the yin-yang and people all over the country as well as in the states are clamouring to stock their new brews. So since Squamish’s first industry was hop farming I’m thinking perhaps it’s time for us to kick it ... I remember feeling perfectly peaceful with the fact that I was both male and female, an equal balance of yin and yang. "I had both male and female genitalia, but they were not as pronounced as the sexual organs of today. I remember producing a child ... Yeping Cui, Shiyao Dong, Kang Liu, Sijie Yang and Jiaqi Yin are Chinese exchange students who spent the past five months attending Saugus High School. They have now returned to China. Students in the United States have a happier and more relaxed ... The ultimate goal is to balance yin and yang, the harmonising factors in the universe and there are a few basic guidelines – if your garden has too many hills, a geomancer might ask you to put in a pond to break it up. If the wind is too ... Black and white are often associated with the philosophy of yin and yang," he said. "And this also mirrors the relationship between Syue Ping-guei and Wang Bao-chuan in 'Lady Precious Stream.'" The famous Shanghai opera dating from the Tang dynasty ...
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