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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X Japan
10: Osaka Grand Prix (Japan). 10-11: IAAF Combined Events Challenge (Desenzano del Garda, Italy). 17: Dakar Grand Prix (Senegal). 18: Great Manchester Run. 20: Adidas Track Classic (Carson, California). 24: Hengelo Grand Prix (Holland). 25: Belem Grand ... After rising at 7 a.m. in her family's Arlington Heights home, Yasuha Kimbara slides on jeans and a Hollister T-shirt, pulls her hair into a ponytail and clicks her retainer into place. On the way to school, strip malls and fast-food restaurants ... I had a lot of trouble with her," Peer said. In other first-round matches, Nathalie Dechy of France defeated Yan Zi of China 6-2, 6-2 and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus defeated two-time Gold Coast champion Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-2, 6-3. The match ... While our test of the Evo X was confined to Mitsubishi's Tokachi Proving Ground in the far north of Japan, it was challenging enough to demonstrate that this latest Evo builds on the extraordinary ability of its fierce forebears while taming their ... ... Chinese manufacturer such as First Automobile Works, he predicted a shift of "companies from Europe" because of Mexico's North American vantage point, the easy access to the U.S. market through NAFTA and Mexico's free-trade agreements with Japan and ... And while Europe, Japan and China are growing fast: the fact remains that Amazon generates the vast majority of its revenues in the US. Delivering that growth with the US economy forecast to slow will be no easy task for Bezos. Maxjet uses foreign ... Now: He ate enough for six at Christmas dinner after the monkish deprivations of the Flat racing season, but has hardly taken time off at all. "I rode in four races in Japan in November, went to loads of awards, took my daughter to Lapland, but then I ... A city like Nagasaki, Japan, comparable to Seattle in size, berths cruise ships within walking distance of tourist areas. Why don't we seize the opportunity presented by the defection of yet another freight line. Let's admit that Tacoma has a ... Forbes now licenses its brand to publishers who take some Forbes content, add their own material and publish monthly local-language editions in China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Poland, Israel, Dubai and Turkey. In China, it has a circulation of 125,000 ... This has eerie echoes of Japan in late-1990, when inflation rose to 4 per cent on a mini price-surge across Asia. As the Bank of Japan fretted about an inflation scare, the country's financial system tipped into the abyss. Have your say ...
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