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: Theme
The presidential fortunes of Mayor Michael Bloomberg may hinge on the country slipping into a recession that would make voters more receptive to a self-made billionaire selling himself as a pragmatic, nonpartisan fiscal manager, economists and ... Heightened expectations of the Fed cutting interest rates has been the theme that is the nemesis of the dollar,'' said John Kyriakopoulos, a Sydney-based currency strategist at National Australia Bank Ltd., the nation's largest lender. ``There are ... While Jindal thanked the former governors for their service, he tried to separate himself from the politics of the past and repeated his campaign theme that the state's problems were rooted in incompetent and corrupt leadership. "In our past, too many ... What the capacity audience heard was an absorbing, informative exploration that took apart Tchaikovsky's music movement by movement, theme by theme, examining it in light of the composer's melancholy personality, his repressed homosexuality, his ... While that seems like a weighty theme for a play, this thoughtful work by a playwright ("All in the Timing," "Polish Joke") not particularly known for seriousness presents the conflict between Spinoza's radical ideas and the oppressive religious ... ... something about the lake that had instantly charmed me, kept me coming back for drive-bys so that finally I just had to park the car and get out, walk on the grass, take a few pictures--a welcome escape from the thrill-a-minute overload of the theme ... ... January has scaled down this year from its usual month to one weekend, a wise decision, given poor attendance the past couple of years. In keeping with EMP's new exhibit, "American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music," the program has a Latin theme. ... ... has his campaign plan; we have our campaign plan," Merkley spokesman Russ Kelley says. "We'll run ads when we think it's necessary." Kelley says he isn't surprised that Novick's first ad highlights one of his disabilities. "That's been the theme of ... Desperate opponents will try to goad him into the mire, or make him pay a stiff tariff for lofty principles. The Clintonistas are their party's best politicians, not just because they know how to poll niche voters, pick theme songs, and staff field ... Whatever the theme of any "Idol" episode, Abdul maintains the same approach. "The kids know I will fight for them if they're worth fighting for," she says. "A lot of times, they are, though Simon may not hear or see what is very special about them ...
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