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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Tom Waits
"Best Breakfast in Town," proclaims the sign out front, and they probably don’t hear too many arguments. While the food’s good, the atmosphere is even better, like scenes from an unwritten Tom Waits song. Waitresses sport "OKIE SPOKEN HERE" T ... Tom Waits, y'all! 5. Grindhouse . Not Planet Terror , not Death Proof , no goddamn "extended" cuts—just plain Grindhouse , the way I saw it in the theater and hope to have on DVD one day, with fake ads, trailers and intermission. Quentin, Robert and ... We number Wayne Coyne , Tom Waits and Nick Cave amongst them, but not too many others. Drugs, eh? Mental. DiScuss: Which bands or artists are better for the drugs? Or worse? Which is the best ‘ Im on loads of drugs, seriously, it’s fucked up’ album ... Crafty producer T Bone Burnett pitches songs by the likes of Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Sam Phillips and the Everly Brothers, and they get rootsy, loving treatment by the vocal duo of the year. 3. Back to Black , Amy Winehouse - Before the ... Plant and Krauss meander through rockabilly, country and more with the songs of Tom Waits, the Everly Brothers and Doc Watson - with their rich harmonies and Burnett's moody atmosphere always intact. 5. Nine Inch Nails, "Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D" (Interscope ... Among the friends and fans he acquired over the years were singers/songwriters such as Tom Waits, Bono and Sinead O’Connor; film directors including Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Verhoeven, Taylor Hackford and David Lynch; and screen actors including Sean ... GD / Tom Kite won the ’92 U.S. Open at what California course? (A: Pebble Beach.) CB / I was there, and I actually picked him to win. Pebble Beach is where even God waits for a tee time. It’s also the site of the greatest golf story I’ll ever have ... Yes, Tom Brady was the difference, as he has been so many times, but games like that are crap shoots — you play enough of ... Destiny isn’t something that waits for you to show up and then bestows its blessings on you. Destiny is whatever you go out ... A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. -- Bill Vaughan With New Year's Eve just around the corner, the Times ... Tom Deage of Eureka took a more philanthropic approach and has decided to help others. ”My New Year's resolution is to ... Photographic Portraits of Tom Zimberoff." Portraits of national and international conductors. Ongoing. "150 Years of Dance ... Men in Power," works by Kellesimone Waits. Through Mon/31. Madrone Lounge 500 Divisadero; 241-0202. Call for hours. "This ...
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