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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Wayne Shorter
The superb quintet assembled for "River" includes longtime Mitchell collaborator Wayne Shorter, whose superb saxophone solos dance merrily around Mitchell's melodies. Bassist Dave Holland adds firm foundations to the 10 free-flowing portraits ... He's earned praise from jazz mainstays like Wayne Shorter and Pat Metheny, to rock guitarist Carlos Santana, to Police frontman/bassist Sting, who has compared Pastorius to another guitar revolutionary - Jimi Hendrix. Here's what Red Hot Chili Peppers ... ... harmonies and technical proficiency on the bass produced gems such as the quickly paced Donna Lee , his wistful solo Portrait of Tracy , and the catchy, upbeat Birdland with Weather Report. He has earned praise from jazz mainstays like Wayne Shorter and ... In recent years, musical icons like Wayne Shorter and the late Joe Zawinul have praised Gravatt's drumming flair, sensitivities and precision. Many drummers from the early days of jazz are dead — Max Roach, Art Blakey, Tony Williams and Elvin Jones ... To my surprise, it turned out to be one of the best hardcore jazz albums he's done in years, and also offered some of the finest recent playing from Wayne Shorter. Joe Lovano & Hank Jones, "Kids: Live at Dizzy's" (Blue Note): The third in the series ... Fort Wayne Weather Forecast, IN ... Rick Poynter has said a jury also could have acquitted Blanton or found him guilty of reckless homicide, with a shorter ... Tyler Hansbrough scored 26 points and Wayne Ellington added a career-high 23 to help No. 1 North Carolina beat Nevada 106-70 ... Investigation continues into fatal tiger attack at S.F. zoo Tiger grotto wall shorter than thought, may have contributed to ... The other farmer involved in the lawsuit, Wayne Hauge of Ray, N.D., mirrored Monson's thoughts on industrial hemp as one of ... It's a shorter variety, about 6-foot tall,” he added. Shorter is better because the straw is known to plug up combines. Hauge ... From this point forward, days are going to grow steadily longer and the nights are going to gradually get shorter. And that's ... Dave Pitts, a local businessman and fisherman is President and Wayne Barker, who is well known in the fishing industry, is ... Edwin Shorter scored 14 points as Dollarway held on to defeat Monticello 48-42 Wednesday night in an opening round game in the ... Monticello shot 35.7 percent from the field Wednesday night (15-of-42) Billies head coach Wayne Sherrer was disappointed ...
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