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: Where I'm Coming From
A couple weeks back I noted that the Milwaukee Bucks are playing a dizzying 17 games in 29 days coming out of Christmas. Well I'm back on this topic because this insane schedule is reaching its maniacal peak -- the Bucks play five games this week. It ... They'd be upstairs wrestling and I'd pound on the ceiling shouting, 'TAKE IT OUSIDE OR I'M COMING UP THERE!' " Jack Harbaugh said. Mother Harbaugh just shook her head. "I do wish I'd had headphones to block out all their noise," she said. One winter ... TV funnyman Bobby Ball - clocked doing 97mph on the A1(M) - has escaped a driving ban. "I'm very relived and so grateful, and I will be coming back to Sunderland for panto," he said after appearing before the city's magistrates. The 63-year-old ... Has she felt it? “I’m not so sure about the photo they’ve used of me on the Police Federation literature,” she says ... Smith says she had no inkling that it was coming. “The PM said, ‘I think you’re going to be shocked’, and I was. I ... Coming into the games, we have to take it on ourselves to do mental conditioning. … I'm not sure. We've tried a lot of things." tabannon@tribune.com More articles Get chicagotribune.com news by e-mail. Sign up for Daywatch. Copyright © 2008, Chicago ... It's striking to hear songs of devotion coming from such a moppet, and Burton finesses his duet with Bonham Carter, "Not While I'm Around," just so. He also keeps the self-conscious camera gymnastics to a minimum: He's having fun with the material ... Enter email adresses, one per line. Normally when I hear rumors of a sequel to a somewhat-good movie I automatically cringe, but I’m not doing that today. According to Bloody Disgusting , Cloverfield director Matt Reeves knows about the rumors of a ... I'm just getting excited for Carnival," Mancuso said. "It's coming up soon." Holaus' previous best performance was a third-place finish in a downhill in San Sicario, Italy, last season. In the Super-G, she had not finished higher than her ninth-place ... "I'm skeptical that the benefit of economic stimulus will be much more than demonstrating that people are willing to do something rather than just sit by and watch the economy go down the drain," says Ken Goldstein, economist with the Conference ... More are coming. These devices have morphed beyond media playback. You can send e-mail, surf the Web and do practically ... It costs $20, and while I'd argue it's worth the cost, I'm puzzled by Apple's new approach. In a way, this is akin to the ...
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