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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Throwdown
The buzz surrounding the return of Boston's most famous, longest-running, and commercially successful ska-punk band began well before its plan to revive its annual series of Hometown Throwdown shows was made official. When the Bosstones' five-night ... What's most funny about the apparent Reid view is not just the classic establishmentarian's suggestion that any anti-hawkish political stance (Dodd's throwdown against telecom immunity) which appears to be based on principle is really just cynical ... In her Wall St. Journal column today, Peggy Noonan offers up a Santa-like checklist of which presidential candidates are "reasonable" and which ones aren't. In describing the attributes that Americans want in a President, she says: "I claim here to ... The Mighty Mighy Bosstones kicked off their 10th "Hometown Throwdown" last night at the Middle East and it was an exciting, sweaty affair filled with familiar hits and a few new tunes including the jubilant "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker." Jonathan ... The record was produced by Erik Rutan ( Hate Eternal , Goatwhore ). ... Throwdown 's Dave Peters recently hit the studio to record a guest vocal for Soulfly 's forthcoming new album, which is expected in stores this summer. The yet-untitled record will also ... Because of the nature of the morning party,” says Fruitcake’s Fernando Jardim, “we are planning a hard-core throwdown event that will be memorable because of the unique venue and the uniqueness of Hector’s sound.” SweetPillow offers its own ... And it was -- for the first quarter. Saginaw led, 9-8, after the opening period, but outscored Country Day, 24-6, in the second and 29-10 in the third, and cruised to a 76-50 laugher Saturday in the finale of the Throwdown at Motown tournament at ... Jamie Foxx Jack of all trades filled the world in on the Kid Rock/Tommy Lee throwdown from the stage. Then he freestyled a little nuttiness that Jennifer Garner had to rein in. Big fun. Cook and author Renee Ferguson was featured in November on "Throwdown! with Bobby Flay" on the Food Network, and an essay from Kathie Fischer got "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" to send its DJ, Stryker, to film a segment at the Christmas Walk in December ... A freestyle dance throwdown with a world music soundtrack. MONDAY (31st) ROCK/BLUES/HIP-HOP *ALO, Honeycut Independent. 9pm, $85. Open bar. Blaqk Audio, Moving Untits, Katy Perry Mezzanine. 9pm, $60-100. "Disco 2008." *Blue Turtle Seduction, Monophonics 12 ...
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