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: White Noise
But Liam’s just as fascinated by texture, so he tricks out his material here with bits of white-noise guitar fuzz, ghost-choir backing vocals and percussion that sounds like someone drumming his fingers on a dashboard. “I’ll Be Lightning” is ... But in all of this CGI-created glitz, the necessary talk of policy in a political process was lost -- and stories that cannot be told by a pie chart were lost in cable's white noise. The analysts and news readers on these networks merely analyzed the ... Three of the guinea pigs are simply kept in dark rooms, while the rest are made to wear eye masks that reduce the world to a grey blur, headphones that pump a continual white noise drone into their ears, and gigantic foam mittens so they can't even ... I mean, Mudhoney are loud, but 6FS would often start a track with 20 minutes of deafening white noise, then drop into the song. "It was physical, but like psychological warfare at the same time." Mahoney spent his first days in LCD Soundsystem ... ... Chairman Ratan Tata, introducing the Nano -- price tag $2,500 -- during India's main auto show, drove onto a stage in a white ... Nano could lead to possibly millions more automobiles hitting already clogged Indian roads, adding to mounting air and noise ... A model passes in a transparent white top with what look like thick paper clips dangling from its sleeves, and from my seat I can hear the clips chink together. Normally, fashion shows are fuss and noise and energy, but the Jil Sander audience is ... ... as German noise experimentalists Einstürzende Neubauten. The New Yorker critic Sasha Frere-Jones recently ignited debate in US indie circles after accusing the likes of the Arcade Fire and Wilco of being musically myopic. 'Why did so many white rock ... He insulated his studio with white noise, so he can't hear anything that's going on in the world that could give him a sense of real time. He turned off his cell phone to prevent calls from "the future." He doesn't know Mitt Romney won the Michigan ... The focus of the US campaign, she said, is "to make meaning out of media and cut through the white noise of campaign rhetoric." On Friday night at tony Glenwild country club, Schulman, Poe and Berg, along with Salt Lake Film Center executive ... Change is the mantra, repeated so frequently as to seem like white noise, as though it means nothing. But change means everything. It can't happen quickly enough. Change means not Bush, not Cheney, no more war, an end to political bullying. Change? On ...
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