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: Woven Hand
You are on a forced meander in Wharf Uno, because no aisle is longer than about 4 feet, at which point you will have to turn because there will be an enormous carved Brazilian rosewood egret perched on a shelf above a 5-foot-tall hand-woven basket ... Designed by Stephen Burks for Artecnica's Design With Conscience project, this line of powder-coated steel-wire furniture hand-woven by South African artisans has it all: a feel-good provenance, airy good looks, a durable finish and tremendous ... Because they're hand-woven the entire process takes a lot longer than usual. Bora and I are both enthusiastic about hand skills such as beading and embroidery, which we see as the antidote to fast-fashion. And while most designers wait until the last ... The story is woven around a family, the parents divorced but the father is so attached to the children, always giving them a helping hand. Sometimes. I feel he's worried over his decision, and desperate ‘Family unity is best’ is shown vividly. I ... While labor-intensive to make by hand, you can take shortcuts and buy the wrappers and make your own stuffing. There are ... These look more like mini-forks with flat handles and are a nice alternative to traditional toothpicks. * Place mats: Woven ... ... instruments and head for our own tryst with maati—circular mud huts called bhungas, with conical roofs of intricately woven ... On the other hand, calling it an ‘endogenous tourism project’ launched by the central government and undp and run by the ... ... B of “Nude,” the edgy paranoia in “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” and the sludgy chug and weeping synthesizers woven into ... Movie or Maybe”), jewelry box pop (“Savannah Smiles”), well-orchestrated bridge burner (“You Can’t Hold the Hand ... No wonder, for she carries the fruit in two wide woven baskets stacked on her head. At the start of the day she has close to ... I just want to say that I only make between Rp 500 and Rp 1,000 (five to ten US cents) profit on a hand of bananas. Then you ... When the last of eight sarcophagi was opened, though, all it contained were embalming materials and woven flowers — a find ... Give the man a hand This two-picture combo shows the statue of Neptune by 16th-century Italian artist Bartolomeo Ammannati ... ... that had to be added there; he just wanted to use musical phrases, so I wove in segments from such songs as ‘I Put My Hand ... and Mabel I have more melodic lines in their change-of-scene music than any other shows I’ve ever seen. These lines woven ...
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