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: Writers Block
January 28, 2008 -- THE writers' strike. Should be over within two weeks. THE mayor. If he jumps, it's next month. For now it ... They do not like her on the block. Do not! . . . Wow-ee, Michael Jackson 's going to take another whack at it. The good news ... When David Letterman and Conan O'Brien returned to work at the beginning of the month, they had not only gone without writers ... Antebi's advice is to wash your face regularly and apply sun block, because even skin covered by hair can get burned. One ... They stop the screen the same way Antonio Pierce did on one memorable play against the Packers -- just fight through the block. They've got guys tough enough to do it. Norman of Dallas -- "If the SB were played this coming Sunday, I'd go along with the ... ... an overbearing boss who believes everyone but you, one tends to respond by preventing future opportunities for criticism, or as Bruce Tait appropriately put it, ‘‘not putting your neck on the chopping block.’’ I suspect all the letter writers ... (KAAL) – Award shows in Hollywood may be on the chopping block due to the writers strike. But locally, that wont be a problem. Rochester is gearing up for the annual Rochester Area Sports Banquet. Its a chance to honor great teams, and athletes ... The other day, I had lunch with some fellow baseball writers riding out these last weeks of hibernation, and we earnestly ... is fascinated by the desperation born of short and dangerous football careers, with players banished for one missed block or ... ... to our misery room when we fail to believe and practice that we are an incredible chip off an unfathomable cosmic block ... Allowing a writer to influence your thinking without pondering long on the ideas, opinions and soapboxes of all writers, all ... Then there's England in New Zealand just around the corner, who are you backing to come up trumps? Any thoughts on who should play keeper - Tim Ambrose or Phil Mustard? And gents, as much as we love hearing about your beer-drinking prowess, after ... ... cast not merely by the usual culprits – talk-show hosts and “expert” media commentators – but by chatters and writers ... I know a lot of the guys who block for him. I know he's a gamer.” Giles also knows that, because he is a big-league ... It was a most memorable play from behind Kramer's block and culminated Montana's surgical work in a scintillating two-minute ... Yet, should the Patriots win the Super Bowl, such comparisons will be made in a variety of ways, with so many writers offering ...
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