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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Vader
Scrooge and Streep beat off competition from Star Wars' Darth Vader, who came in third place, despite torturing and mentally abusing his staff. Hapless David Brent, of The Office, proved popular with 77.8% of workers voting him the world's best ... Speaking of strange things on talk shows, is that really LYNNE CHENEY on Jon Stewart’s show, greeting him with a Darth Vader doll (a joking reference to hubby Dick) and getting a friendly, respectful reception? And speaking of ... Speaking of strange things on talk shows, is that really LYNNE CHENEY on Jon Stewart's show, greeting him with a Darth Vader doll (a joking reference to hubby Dick) and getting a friendly, respectful reception? And speaking of Stewart, we told you ... Notre Dame's Darth-Vader-esque turn to the dark side is so unprecedented, it's off the charts. Only an upset victory at UCLA spared the Irish from an 0-10 start, and they finished a totally offensive 119th (last) in the nation in total offense. ... Pokémon and Darth Vader. He pointed them all out, proud to show off his collection. Some are more special than others - beyond being collector's items. Markle still has his first childhood yo-yo, as well as two wooden Duncan's his father had ... Other big-smile moments: kids battling Darth Vader at the newly permanent Jedi Training Academy at MGM, rolling past Disney's Bay Lake on a Segway, floating on a pontoon under the England-France bridge during IllumiNations, pointing Epcot guests ... The 108-inch screen is big enough to show Darth Vader from the top of his shiny bonce to the bottom of his black shoes. It will be shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show next month and commercially released in 2009. So far no one has worked out ... ... flower pendant, sterling silver Filigree circle pendant and 14k yellow gold four prong oval peridot stud earrings. Top-selling watches included the Timex heart rate monitor watch, LEGO Kids' Star Wars Darth Vader ... This is the second iconic villain, after Darth Vader, who was turned into a simpering, unthreatening goofball because of a prequel. Perhaps we need a new slogan in Hollywood to combat these atrocities, like "Friends don't let friends make prequels." ... At the Fruitville Target, shoppers patrolled the clearance racks Wednesday, snapping up berry wreaths, snowman cake plates and Darth Vader stockings marked 50 percent off. Laura Chase and her daughter Hosanna browsed for decorative Christmas stocking ...
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