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: Through Windows and Walls
LOWELL -- Forklifts used to barrel through with reams of material to be dyed. Now ... steel-plate floors, brick walls and 13-foot-high ceilings. "People have been ... The windows are so huge," said Karen Bettencourt, a fiber artist who is moving from ... ... lake, through the atrium, and into the main living spaces through big doors that open up. Hot air rises through high, clerestory windows ... The walls are padded and have extra insulation," builder Charles Clayton says. "There's a rug on the floor, but ... My eight-person dorm room had large windows and was outfitted with metal bunk beds ... dunes, crawling under ice caves, examining dinosaur bones, riding horses through the ... The walls are bare; the common room is, well, common; you have to constantly push ... Half-inch cracks run through the $368,000 home's living room. The 5-inch-thick concrete slab also contains cracks from front door to back windows, and on walls in every room and the garage. As a result of those cracks, floor tiles have also cracked ... Just a few adobe walls with holes for doors and windows remain. You can look through a window in Terlingua and see those jagged red, purple, yellow and beige mountains-all that rugged nature out there defying anybody to make big plans for it. That's ... The tower, well, towers over the museum lobby, and when lighted at night, it beckons to outside strollers through ceiling-high windows. ... well-known, as well as unexpected delights such as the Persian Ceiling , which casts gorgeous shadows on the walls ... It is of Mediterranean Revival design, which features decorative columns, arched windows, clay barrel tile roofs and rough stucco walls. ... and $94 per night at Maswik North and Yavapai East Lodges, single or double occupancy, valid through ... ... the billionaire announced his charitable plan in October 2006, including boarded-up or broken windows, graffiti, pools sprouting weeds and walls ... Kawamoto did not respond to several written inquiries relayed to him through a local interpreter over ... ... fourplex that in the winter gets mold growing in the bottom corners of the walls ... Rather, it sounds as if the wind is intruding through gaps in the sheathing and ... Use minimally expanding foam (the type intended for windows and doors) to fill the ... Stroll, shop or eat your way through Kailua-Kona, but have a care where you spend ... the sheets were clean, the TV worked, I felt secure enough to sleep with the windows ... Translation: creaky floors, thin walls and ceiling fans instead of air ...
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