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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Will Haven
If you are one of them and your purchases have not been delivered yet, you may be feeling a bit anxious. It is estimated that as many as 1.5m gifts will fail to arrive in time or disappear altogether. The research, by a direct communications company ... Every few weeks, we ask you about your favorite things in the Northwest. In 2007, we asked about bakeries, pizza, hamburgers (there's a food theme here, isn't there?), clam chowder, etc. And about summer books, beaches, even favorite things to do at ... Totesport Casino, an internet arm of government-owned bookmaker the Tote, is switching its operations to the offshore tax haven of Alderney in a controversial move that will allow it to advertise freely in the UK while avoiding UK tax and regulation ... In fairness, we just literally signed the agreement, so those decisions haven't been made yet." Merrill Lynch Capital provides financing typically for middle-market and non-investment grade companies with annual sales of $50 million to $750 million ... That service, using technology called WiMax, will compete directly with Internet connections offered here by AT&T and Comcast, although Xohm executives haven't revealed what they will charge. The new year will not only bring new wireless high-speed ... ... sterling fell again on Thursday -- contributed to the lackluster demand for the Treasury's new two-year notes, analysts said. "LIBOR rates are easing so the weaker demand (for short-dated U.S. Treasuries) is really indicative of a lack of safe-haven ... If they haven't made a move to come back, I think it's questionable as to whether or not they will," says Greg Rigamer, president of GCR. He says New Orleans is regaining population faster than the state because many people forced out of the city ... I haven't been in that situation for a long time - since my early days in Chicago - so I'm not really used to that. I hope that's not what this has turned into. . . . I hope it doesn't continue." Before the game, Randolph said he was "shocked" when ... Remarkably, we haven't heard much whining, blaming or self-pitying from the Dolphins. Compare them to the Heat, for example, where the discord is palpable and players are doing postgame pouts only 28 games into the season. On the minus side, the ... A handful of venues have closed or are soon to, including the long-esteemed Mario Diacono Gallery (the last show is up through Jan. 18), a haven for ambitious, intelligent painting, and the Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, which had an edgy aesthetic and a ...
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