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: True Obsessions
Beware those great British obsessions ... Hopefully, not even half of those media stories are true. Brits may be proud to have a health system free for everyone ... Those are the words of a good artist, but his real struggle was never with art but with his obsessions, addictions, ego, and ... An atheist would probably say it was just a change of attitude, and to a certain extent that's true, but there was much ... Any movie with Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman isn't likely to disappoint, and that's true for "The Savages," a ... at evoking a woman embarrassed by her own lifestyle, and Hoffman, as a man who knows how absurd his life and obsessions must ... ... book’s themes (the physical and psychological damage ordinary people suffer from war’s realities) ring chillingly true ... This unique study weaves together the erotic obsessions of avant-garde French novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans, the execution of a ... The accumulated portrait is of an artist who has remained focused on his own singular themes and obsessions for 30 years ... It's often described as a plotless film, but that's not really true, as Lynch tells the story of the high-haired Henry ... Yes its fine to have your opinions and debate them however when these opinions turn into obsessions they become a little annoying to many fans. not that Im saying you have any obsessions NJ ;-) This guy hides his obvious resentment of Heart of ... And a true, spontaneous, but silent applause from those around him in the box. So often in a season sitting next to him, as ... We all have our obsessions and he was entitled to his. But one of his was clearly pens. But unfortunately for him he was teamed ... I would argue that A) that's not true, and B) even more important, it's missing the point. Lynch's movies are about his ... But Lynch's questions and obsessions are always big ones; there's nothing insincere or inauthentic about him. Good or bad, his ... Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions , which was published this week. It's called "How This Book Became an Official Oprah Book Club ... sitting, you're just another zillionaire narcissist for whom fame (the illusion of unconditional love) has become the true ... The outcome of a true YouTube election will be more random--but, arguably, more substance-related. ... To Be Sure: I'm not saying we're already past the time when races get determined by what Bob Shrum and Roger Ailes, or their successors, spend ...
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