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: Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys
You consider MySpace to be as important to bands nowadays as it was during the emergence of Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys et al? What ... A: I don’t know who the fuck these people are. Y: It’s pop, they’re singers. A: I like singers! Y: But, like, I understand ... Much has been made of the internet since the meteoric rise of the Arctic Monkeys, giving away tracks on their website and talking ... Call it a scene, call it whatever the fuck you want, but you can't ignore a beautiful uprising and you certainly can't ... Plus, I don't really give a fuck about bouncing around to the Arctic Monkeys or Panic! At the Disco. "BANNED" is unassuming and welcoming, and King pours some strong fucking Lynchburg Lemonades. Not much is ... When Saturday comes, fuck knows why Lily Allen is on the Pyramid Stage before Paolo Nutini . Allen is class, whatever you ... Arctic Monkeys , meanwhile, look nervous headlining the main stage, Alex’s “ladies and gentlemen” tic revealing the tension ... ... in-demand Ford; he also twiddled the controls on the similarly nominated Favourite Worst Nightmare by Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys. ... Ford: Yeah, there is the element that it could just all fuck up. That must make playing live as SMD a lot more exciting ... Why the fuck are 'real bands' like The Fratellis and Kasabian here, anyway? Haven’t they got some mobile telephone ... dreading: who the hell do you go to see when your favourite space-rock band ( Spiritualized ), favourite pop band ( Arctic Monkeys ... Publicly lashing out at the hype surrounding their band, Arctic Monkeys released a five track EP entitled ‘Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys’, and stating that they ‘don’t want to live off old albums’ have already demoed over 10 tracks for ... ... press officer and radio plugger as Ash/Kaiser Chiefs in place and on the pay roll long before they got signed), Arctic Monkeys were ... annoys the FUCK out of me, so does her fucking dad. As for Myspace - it IS a shameless self promotion site that ... Why the fuck should she have to pay £145 to be scared to death by some cunt who has just wandered in and isn't stopped ... Bands like The Streets, Arctic Monkeys and Dizzy Rascal were being watched by masses of scum. There was also obviously a lot of ... The White Stripes, Radiohead, Squarepusher, Elbow, The Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand and Dizzee Rascal will all be revered in the future, in my opinion. They are already extremely well-known and have really made people sit up and ...
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