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: Timeless
You know how it works. The music swells. An endless series of starry names appears on the screen, accompanied by atmospheric shots of Victorian London (if it's a Dickens adaptation) or the timeless beauty of the English countryside (if it's anyone ... There is ample discussion of Shaw's timeless betes noires -- the complacency of the intellectually bankrupt upper classes, the cowardice of the church leadership, the use of nationalism to manipulate the common people. But there also is an unusual ... Hopper calls this his 'timeless and exquisite capturing of life's expressions in oil'. By the turn of the millennium he was attracting sitters as diverse as Marco Pierre White, Ozwald Boateng, Ross Kemp and a nude Ivan Massow. Yeo's ... And they understood, history will show, that those who wore the uniform in the beginning of the 21st century understood a timeless truth that the ideology of -- based upon liberty is necessary for peace; that in this ideological struggle, on the ... Purists can carp about the composer's derivative melodies and the often banal lyrics supplied by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, but the magic nevertheless persists. Friday night's Kentucky Center audience lapped it up when the touring company ... The group is an amalgam of the best players in the nation presenting the legendary and timeless music of 70s supergroup, THE BAND, whose influence is still felt in music nearly 30 years after its last performance. Kris Gloer is a music aficionado and ... It's pretty current, but it's a timeless piece." "Oscar and Felix" is a replacement for the originally scheduled show, "Moonlight and Magnolias," which Gleason said wasn't quite as funny as he thought it would be when he started working on it. This ... What makes Shakespeare's works so alive and vibrant are the great human characters that go on such timeless journeys such as falling in love and being silly about it," he explains. "No matter what time period you're from, you can understand." ... We wanted a lot of wood - it's timeless - and we wanted the knotty alder. We like the color, how it ages. The downside is that it's a soft wood and dings up. But we went rustic, so if it gets beat up it just adds character." They also knew they wanted ... It was in 1985 that McCurry's portrait of Sharbat appeared on the cover of National Geographic . Sharbat was barely 13 years old then, living in a refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan. McCurry had graduated in photography from Philadelphia University ...
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