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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William Christie, Les Arts Florissants
William Christie/Les Arts Florissants: Haydn "Die Schoepfung" (Austrian Radio) . . . 2 p.m. Jazz Profiles/Nancy Wilson (WICN: wicn.org ) . . . 6 p.m. New York Philharmonic (Vermont Public Radio) . . . 8 p.m. Chicago Symphony (WMCE: wmce.mercyhurst.edu ... ... including flames to envelope the devil. This time around, the re-enacted opera staged Tuesday night in this northwestern town is under the musical direction of American born William Christie, leading his Baroque ensemble, Les Arts Florissants It's a dramatic, vivid voice of extraordinary merit, and here de Niese is joined by Handel specialist William Christie, conducting the award-winning period orchestra Les Arts Florissants. "Maria," Cecilia Bartoli (Decca, $17.98 ). It is not Leonard ... The production, overseen by William Christie, the veteran excavator of forgotten Baroque operas, is a serious attempt to ... Christie, switching between harpsichord and a small organ, conducts the band, Les Arts Florissants, with his usual light touch. The Juilliard School just announced that it will establish a graduate-level historical performance curriculum at its Lincoln Center home. Esteemed conductor William Christie and his period orchestra Les Arts Florissants will kick things off with a ... Les Arts Florissants; William Christie, cond. (Virgin Classics)*** Although he didn't live that long, Henry Purcell (1659-95) earned his reputation as the greatest English composer before Benjamin Britten with his opera "Dido and Aeneas," scores for ... P ARIS, Oct 30, 2007 (AFP) - New York's Juilliard School and William Christie's France-based early-music ensemble Les Arts florissants are to work together to train singers and musicians in 17th and 18th century music. Over the next two years ... Les Arts Florissants; William Christie, cond. (Decca). Three and a half stars Soprano Danielle de Niese was the youngest-ever singer in the Metropolitan Opera's studio program, at 18. Less than a decade later, she was breathlessly hailed as "an all ... The Dominant Quartet is a very personable all-female ensemble, establishing itself as one of the most promising of the younger generation. William Christie and the Orchestra and Chorus of Les Arts Florissants breathed life into the sacred opera Il ... 6 HAYDN Die Schöpfung, Soloists, Les Arts Florissants, cond William Christie (Virgin) Haydn’s great Enlightenment oratorio comes up as fresh as a restored canvas in the hands of Christie’s wonderful period orchestra and choir. The crack team of ...
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