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: Writer's Block
Korean drama about a young filmmaker with writer's block and a romantic itch. At Film Forum (2:07). Not rated: Sexuality. For most writers, imagining a sexual conquest would be easier than going out and securing one, but not so for the womanizing ... But the 35-year-old has been crippled by writer’s block and now wastes his time with hangers-on at his Detroit mansion. We revealed yesterday that the music legend’s 5ft 8in frame has ballooned to 14½st and that he is battling heart problems. ... But with many of today’s screenwriters apparently suffering a collective case of desperate writer’s block, where will we turn for ideas if not from Hollywood? The Plot Thickens At the heart of the problem is the approach scriptwriters are trained ... ... using an "abundance" of words and is proud of it; but the problem is not that she doesn't care what she says but that she sometimes cares too much; a problem, if you want to call it that, that apparently led to a serious case of writer's block ... Ever the activist, Atwood once served as vice-chairman of the Writer's Union of Canada and president of PEN International, a ... A Paris judge has rejected attempts by the French president's ex-wife to block the publication of a book in which she calls ... He's still driven and fights the good fight against a bad case of writer's block. We can't help but be riveted by his smallest gestures. He may be the most intriguing character in any movie in 2007. Director Andrew Wagner also wrote a crackling good ... Unfortunately, it can't be your favorite sitcom because a poorly timed writer's strike is pouring salt into your gaping sports ... to get in front of a camera and say something like, ``Don't call me when you're in my town, call me when you're on my block ... Then there's prime-time, a three-hour block for most networks. There's an industry devoted to that. Sharon: Television used ... Sharon: On the other hand, look at what the writer's strike has done to TV. All reality shows, all the time. Scott: "Reality ... The one-time workaholic used to toil tirelessly in his studio revising songs but, crippled by writer's block, he now wastes time with hangers-on at home. The 1.72m-tall Eminem, whose real name is Marshall MathersIII, has reportedly ballooned to 92kg ... ... aisle we witnessed a vicious attack on Hillary Clinton by John Edwards and amazing arrogance from the new kid on the block ... This writer's resentment of Catholics is obvious and narrow-minded. * * * Allowing small children to enjoy their new Christmas ...
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