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: Weirdness
True, the lean and hungry libertarian has been pursuing the unusual strategy of holding invitation-only rallies, but given the deep, deep weirdness of the Nevada caucus system, you never know. And Rudy Giuliani has been holding himself in reserve for ... Pauly Nipple, contributed to the weirdness quotient with "Stalker," a song he said he had written for Abdul. "I'm not much of a talker, so I guess that I'll just stalk her," he sang. Abdul, clearly not amused by Marturano's comedy, shrank toward ... This planter at the Woodland Park Zoo features the bold leaves of Japanese banana (Musa basjoo). In answer to a reader's question on where to find a soil sieve or "riddle," Anita Kaplan e-mailed that Smith & Hawken sells them online for $25 at www ... I was in a state of weirdness, I couldn't focus on the reality of the illness. I was quiet, and tired," she said. "But I never canceled anything. I'm used to working under duress!" By September 2006, the tumor was small enough for her to be cleared ... Another tale of weirdness from the New York Times and this time it involves one of the steady hands around here at FOX. Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and a frequent contributor here at FOX, is now writing a once a week column for The ... The weirdness trophy had to go to Ben Haar, 27, of Newark, Del., who went out and got his chest waxed because Abdul said she was put off by the amount of chest hair his bizarre costume was revealing. But New Hope comedian Paul Marturano, 32, made it ... Something of a coup for ITV’s newly returned News at Ten (it’s the Sir Trevor McDonald one) this week, as the entirety of Britain’s media followed up their interview with Gordon Brown, in which he said (with remarkable syntactic weirdness) that ... He is bravely played by a po-faced Javier Bardem with scene-stealing weirdness. He is a satanic force of nature whose weapon of choice is a gas-fuelled bolt gun more commonly used in abbatoirs to slaughter cattle. His most sinister feature is his ... Mamajek emphasized that while a planet collision may not be the correct explanation for the weirdness of 2M1207B, examples of colliding planets are likely to be found by the next generation of ground-based telescopes. "Hot, post-collision planets ... Bush's goofy and distracting necktie and O'Dell's plastic smile and spray-on tan only added to the weirdness of what could have been a good save of an otherwise lost event. Faring better were Access Hollywood correspondent Shaun Robinson and Dave Karger ...
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