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: Wings Of Monarchs
Of milkweed and monarchs A caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly is a reminder that change is possible for people, too. ... I stared in wonder at the beautiful orange wings outlined by black and a pattern of white dots. All too soon, it ... The Phantoms lost to the visiting Manchester Monarchs, 6-2, in an American Hockey League game at the Wachovia Spectrum last ... Wings New Wings coach Dave Huntley got off to a winning start as his team defeated the visiting Chicago Shamrox, 19-11, in ... How many years ago ...sometimes it seems like yesterday, other times oh so long ago. As August is almost on us, how can I forget, Mom doing the last minute laundry in order to get everything packed. Dad still trying to figure out how in the world we ... Then it was on to the Coronado Butterfly Preserve, where strangers talked together in hushed, church-like tones as they gazed up at the fluttering monarchs. The sun shone through the butterflies' wings, making them look like chips of stained glass. ... The monarchs of the centuries that followed were scarcely more permissive toward the impressionable lower orders. But rank had ... seems beyond improvement, right down to the pink ribbons in Cupid's hand, his blue sash, and the fleecy white of his wings ... I couldn't believe how they have little gold spots," Craig Sweet said of the details on the outside of the monarchs' chrysalis. "You can actually see the wings form." The photographer found the insects to be perfect subjects during the late summer. ... ... page maintained by the Xerces Society, dedicated to the conservation of butterflies and other invertebrates. Books -- "Chasing Monarchs: A Migration With the Butterflies of Passage," by Robert Michael Pyle. (Mariner Books; 2001; $14.) -- "Four Wings ... ... said Martha Nitzberg, a state naturalist at Natural Bridges State Park in Santa Cruz, another wintering spot for the monarchs ... fun and learn about, if not the city's most famous visitor, its most-famous visitor with velveteen orange-and-black wings. ... ... stately rectangular brick structures modeled after elaborate British homes popular in the 1700s, during the reigns of monarchs ... Rather than using brick, he covered them in contrasting shingles so that they still look like wings, a signature element of ... Another traditional ruler that comes to mind here is a man that has been hailed as one of the last true monarchs in Africa. I ... Military dictatorship ( clipping of wings and enthronement of subservient culture) * Social malaise ( moral decay in the ...
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