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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Vacuum
Nevertheless, her passing has left a vacuum in Pakistani politics. The most natural successor to Bhutto is another former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who leads the other main opposition party. Sharif is more conservative than Bhutto and rose to ... Her murder leaves a vacuum in the PPP, one of Pakistan's most important popular movements, which has always been led by a Bhutto. Benazir has one sister, Sanam Bhutto, who lives in London and has always avoided politics. Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari ... I clean out cupboards, run up and down the stairs and vacuum high and low. Hard physical and mental work soon sorts out the extra pounds. Every now and then I also have to talk to myself severely. I say: "Now you are not a person who eats chocolates ... Her death has created a political vacuum. The Bhutto name is legendary in Pakistan. Her father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto served as prime minister but was hanged after being deposed in a coup by General Zia-ul-Haq. Benazir Bhutto was a deeply ... After Benazir Bhutto who? A question that's growing louder by the hour in Pakistan and something the Pakistan People's Party might answer soon. A meeting of the party in Karachi may decide on Benazir's successor. With no obvious successor, and the ... It was a ceremony laden with symbolism and tragedy, reflecting her family’s extraordinary role in Pakistan’s 60-year history and the huge political vacuum that she leaves in this chronically unstable country of 165 million people. Weeping ... Covering it with a towel, slowly twist the cork to break the vacuum. Next, still holding the cork, rotate the bottle until the cork is almost out of the neck. Apply slight downward pressure just as the cork breaks free of the bottle. Information ... It is merely to state that someone ought to acknowledge the diabolical correlation that exists between the moral vacuum on the pitch and the moral vacuum that too often exists on the terraces. As Simon Barnes, Chief Sports Writer of The Times , put it ... Son of an absent black father, Obama lived overseas and in Hawaii, remote from any large black community, and received an elite education -- all this, Steele believes, created an "identity vacuum" that caused Obama to want to " resolve the ambiguity ... Humaira Afzal, center, a Pakistani American, watches Pakistani TV reports on the assisination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto with her mom Sarvat, right, and brother Talha from the family's Apple Valley home. Humaira's husband works in ...
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