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: This Is How I Feel About Jazz
Certainly, the exertion he put into his mix of jazz, R&B, funk, and blues for two 90-minute sets would have been enough to make anybody feel a bit winded. Anybody except, perhaps, Genesis himself. Despite his comment, there was nothing about the ... O'Day, a self-professed "song stylist" blessed with a marvelous alto and an incredible feel for rhythm and song arranging, is rightly known as one of the greatest jazz divas. The documentary chronicles her career from her early days singing with Gene ... ... lead the way in the form of New York's Spanish Harlem Orchestra, the scene is set for a sensational evening at tonight's Jazz ... Mrs Gullotta said big free events like this, "make the city feel alive and remind us that we are a community". "I like the ... I plug into the armrest and go straight to the classical or jazz channels. Create your own psychological oasis. 3. If you're hoping to sleep on the flight but feel too nervy, over the counter self-medication is always an option. At the top of my list ... Monterey Jazz Festival headliners hit the road JOSEF WOODARD Sentinel correspondent Last September's gala 50th anniversary of ... Then I feel an obligation to teach, because I was fortunate enough to have great teachers here in New Orleans and have ... You're in this big room with this incredible music being created onstage but, well, I at least don't feel like I'm much a ... around distracted me from listening to the music, which ranged from a sort of Caribbean sound to discordant noise to jazz. ... I know people are interested and want to be involved and that isn't bad either to a certain extent, but you kind of feel invaded a little bit as far as coaching is concerned," Sloan said. Jazz forward Carlos Boozer agreed with Sloan. "I ... ... little girl who occasionally sat in on a song or two with her father, pianist Rich Crandall, at his weekly "Studio 6" jazz ... A Little Walk" shows her feel for softer romantic songs. "In a Mellow Tone" showcases her scat-singing. Crandall acknowledges ... After all the colors of the holidays, your home can feel a bit dreary after the tree's gone, or the menorah's packed up. But just as sparkling earrings or a scarf can jazz up an outfit, colorful, flowering houseplants can provide just the right ... However you want to look at it, Friday night's performance is both an opportunity to hear an amazing arrangement of jazz masters formed to communicate not only their own talents and feel for the music, but to represent the long and illustrious ...
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