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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Vanilla Ice
Ice, aka Robert Van Winkle, became an overnight superstar in 1990 when his hit Ice Ice Baby topped charts around the world. But his success only lasted about one year, and he suffered a rapid fall from popularity. i went last last, brought the house ... Simply soften vanilla ice cream in the microwave, mix in the ingredients of your choice, then freeze again for several hours. Good choices this time of year include fig jam, crumbled baklava, crushed gingerbread cookies and smashed hard mint candies ... Crispy lamb's tongue with muffaletta presse, caper and olive salad, ($16); pouissin with foie gras stuffing, melted leeks and mission figs ($27); and brioche bread and butter pudding with chestnut honey braised apple and vanilla ice cream ($9). ... Reid, who throws more vanilla into the equation than the average ice cream parlor, focused yet again on the potential psychological boost from the season-ending winning streak. "I'd rather go in winning than losing," Reid said. "Wherever that carries ... Martin (Sonny) Siron had a kind word -- and probably a different ice-cream flavor -- for everyone in the south Minneapolis neighborhood he anchored for 62 years. There was nothing vanilla about Sonny or the joy he spread -- images frozen in time ... Rice pudding contains only natural ingredients -- milk, rice, sugar, fat-free milk, eggs, natural vanilla and salt. Each serving contains half the fat and about two-thirds the calories of an equivalent serving of ice cream. Soft-serve ice cream, fat ... ... and delicate calamari are the best I’ve had outside of Alexandria. Good selection of salads and appetizers, with subtle menu tweaks every once in a while. Never leave without polishing off a serving of apple crumble with homemade vanilla ice cream ... To me, they epitomise the vanilla ice cream effect: sugary-sweet, reasonably pleasant every once in a while but ultimately bland and unadventurous. Their finale is almost too saccharine for words – the whole band huddles around a single microphone ... The brownie is to die for, a cupcake drizzled with warm dark-chocolate sauce and served with a scoop of M?venpick’s signature vanilla ice cream — just perfect. Seasons Clubhouse Cairo-Alex Desert Road, right beside the Oasis Hotel Tel: 832-7268 ... With a chef from the crepe capital of the world, the cozy establishment prides itself on the signature galettes filled with a wide choice of fillings including homemade chocolate sauce, roasted almonds, vanilla ice cream, fruits, honey and caramel ...
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