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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Wilco
Wilco at Millennium Park, Sept. 12 Homeboy Jeff Tweedy and the band sounded rather sleepy on their sixth proper album, "Sky Blue Sky." But in concert at the lakefront's classy and previously rock-averse new venue, they wowed their loyal fans by ... Williamson County police are investigating a murder-suicide that happened early Friday morning. Police say that a man traveled to the home of his separated wife, located at 918 Shannon Meadow Trail in Cedar Park, and killed her. The man then called ... Is Madison developing a glass ceiling when it comes to the live concert scene? If you just looked at the local concert scene from large theaters like the Orpheum and Overture Hall on down to the small club level, 2007 was a very vibrant year for live ... Wilco, ``Let's Not Get Carried Away'' -- ``Sky Blue Sky'' (Nonesuch), Wilco's sixth studio record, was an unexpectedly warm and harmonious affair reminiscent of Neil Young's ``Harvest.'' The band moved away from the sonic squalls contained on 2002's ... Animals at the Humane Society in Williamson County are being watched closely after a power outage. The center lost power for three hours Thursday after some equipment overheated. The power is back on, but workers say the heater is not working in ... Borrowing a lot of the sonic tricks Wilco pioneered in Yankee Hotel Foxtrot , Ritter's latest turns up the amp ... and while a little of the poetry has faded from his previous The Animal Years , with tracks like The Temptation of Adam about love in the ... Fans of Wilco should enjoy these guys. This is a truly great band that does not play out much, so if you get the chance, check out one of our best undiscovered local acts starting around 9 p.m. Tomorrow night over at LSC (that's Langdon Street Café ... Sky Blue Sky," Wilco: Having gotten used to the sonic experimentation of the last two Wilco albums, "Sky Blue Sky" at first blew my mind in a much different way than I had expected. "That's it?" I thought as I listened to its collection of mellow ... Wilco, Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch): On these 12 songs, the band's music sounds less obviously ambitious, although still beautiful. What's lacking in experimentation is balanced by a warmth that's appealing in different ways. Whether it's the brushes-on-a ... Washington St. Grifton $2.95 Trade Mart/Wilco, 431 Queen St Pink Hill $2.99 Tony’s Friendly Mart, 200 N Kinston Blvd Snow Hill $2.94 Handy Mart, 1029 Kingold Blvd. $2.94 Trade Mart, 1102 Kingold Blvd. $2.94 Trade Mart, 674 U.S. 258 If you ...
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