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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Weird Al Yankovic
Singer "Weird Al" Yankovic, 48 ... Bassist Robert Trujillo of Metallica, 43 ... Singer David Thomas of Take 6, 41 ... Actor Ryan Reynolds ("Van Wilder," "Two Guys and a Girl"), 31 ... Actress Masiela Lusha ("George Lopez"), 22. - Edited by ... Even Weird Al Yankovic’s “White & Nerdy,” while getting tons of video airplay and digital single sales on iTunes, barely got airplay on the radio. Do you miss the occasionally wacky, strange songs hitting the airwaves, the types of songs you ... Which one of the Michael's songs was parodied by Weird Al Yankovic? A. 'Heal the World' B. 'Dangerous' C. 'Beat It' D ... Scheduled to appear are Kathy Najimy, Wade Robson (Wade Robson Project), Weird Al Yankovic, Neal McDonough (Boomtown, Band of Brothers), Courtney Peldon (Boston Public), Chris Showerman (George of the Jungle 2), Olivia Wilde (Skin) and Dennis Haskins ... Caramel apples: Then the conversation turned to the upcoming Weird Al Yankovic concert at the fairgrounds because Hansen bought tickets, then to the carnivores, er, carnies, carnival workers. Oh, the places you'll go, and the things we'll talk about ... Brazilian soccer star Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) in 1940 (age 67); author Michael Crichton in 1942 (age 65); filmmaker Ang Lee in 1954 (age 53); singers Dwight Yoakam in 1956 (age 51) and "Weird Al" Yankovic in 1959 (age 48); and football ... Weird Al" Yankovic fans shouldn't be the only ones who pick up on this wickedly humorous exploration of Judaism by the alter-ego of singer-songwriter Sean Altman. The title references the Rutles' spin on John Lennon's incendiary 1966 comment about ... This soon evolved into a solo career, which culminated with my controversial performance, in front of an entire Mormon congregation, of Weird Al Yankovic's " Livin' With a Hernia ." The ensuing scandal—the lyric "drop your shorts and cough" was ... A lot of people think I'm weird for that and I think they're narrow-minded for thinking that way. Soda is a tough one though. To me it's like candy with caffeine. But if it's out of my sight, it's out of my mind. My stash is buried in the fridge and ... ... especially "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer," which all tend to get delivered with a scream instead of any attempt at musical accomplishment. I understand that these carols are popular with kids, but they remind me of Weird Al Yankovich Yankovic ...
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