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: Verdi
The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for today's matinee performance of Verdi's "Macbeth," which will be simulcast in movie theaters nationwide. Serbian baritone Zeljko Lucic will replace the ailing Lado Ataneli in the title role. Lucic ... World of Opera , January 11, 2008 - At first glance, Verdi's Attila , an opera about Attila the Hun, might seem like a theatrical relative of "Springtime for Hitler," the play within a play that Mel Brooks created for The Producers . Both the opera ... Our best of 2007 classical music selections are a mix of the year's most worthy CD releases and live opera performances. 1. "SIMON BOCCANEGRA" at the Metropolitan Opera. To hear Fabio Luisi conduct Verdi is a musical highlight not only of a season ... In reviewing events of the past 12 months, various pundits are wishing aloud that 2007 would be over before it's over because it has been the worst year for sports in the history of history. No less an authority than USA Today, our nation's moral ... It was in 1963, while working at the Royal Opera, that Ingpen heard Pavarotti in Verdi's Rigoletto at the Dublin Grand Opera Society. She engaged him as understudy for the ailing Giuseppe di Stefano as Rodolfo in La Bohème with the promise of a ... A minimum-wage agreement for postal workers initiated by Deutsche Post AG and services union Verdi, which was later declared binding for the entire postal services industry, sparked a heated debate in the government coalition over the need for ... MUNCIE -- The Metropolitan Opera has come to Muncie. Sort of. ShowPlace 12 is presenting live transmissions of the Met's lavish stage productions. Verdi's Macbeth will be offered at 1:30 p.m. today. A rebroadcast will be shown at 3 p.m. Sunday. The ... ... and the Metropolitan Opera announced jointly last week that the 1,049-seat theater would become the first performing arts center on Long Island to broadcast six operas live via satellite from Lincoln Center, beginning tomorrow with Giuseppe Verdi's ... When you work on a Verdi opera, you have to tell the story so that the audience can follow it. It can be very complicated. That is not the case with 'Pagliacci.' It is so compact, there are no minutes wasted anywhere. It is really extraordinary ... Service sector union Verdi has also threatened strikes if its wage demands are not met. German employers are under pressure from both unions and politicians to start granting workers a bigger share of the spoils after a recent growth spurt. However ...
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