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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Yakuza
Ninth Ave., 503-239-8830) With the new Zilla Sake House on Alberta and last year's Masu East and Yakuza, it looks like Portland is taking to Japanese eating and drinking as we have to Thai. David Sarasohn Trend that must die: Communal dining. I know ... White Knight Story - Yakuza: Kenzan! - Zipper Interactive Project Please have in mind that this is not an official list released or fully confirmed by Sony. The list is the result of Stunt's efforts – he collected and filtered these game titles from ... Gamasutra's Best Of 2007: Top 5 Most Significant Moments In MMOs [12.27.07] Continuing Gamasutra's year-end retrospective, Michael Zenke takes a look back on the biggest moments of the year in massively multiplayer online games, from the surprise ... With that combination of economic clout and underground manufacture, it's no surprise that the notorious Japanese mafia, the yakuza, has taken an interest in the amigurumi industry. Some commentators believe it's now the sinister crime family who are ... Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, igniting a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang ( John Lone ) of the Triad's and Yakuza boss Shiro Ryo Ishibashi. When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face, the ultimate truth of ... In a dark Tokyo disco, for instance, they have to avoid a dozen Yakuza amid hundreds of screaming civilians. Later on, they rappel down a giant office tower in order to break into a boardroom meeting. Near the end, they sneak through a Venezuelan ... Surely you've seen it in the movies, such as "Black Rain" and "The Yakuza," where the American movie star insults the Japanese. The only way to reconcile the debt of honor is to lop off the pinkie, without a whimper. So our noble mayor can cut his ... I don't know about all of Mitsubishi Keiretsu, but there was a scandal a while back where one of the large banks in the group was engaging in deals with yakuza. A quick Google search also reveals a few sites that talk about corruption within ... Frederic “Somebody Kicked The Snot Out Of” U. Dicker no longer on WROW. What, did someone finally do mankind a long-overdue favor and break Dicker’s jaw? If so, one can only hope that they pulled a Yakuza on each and every one of Dicker’s ... If so, one can only hope that they pulled a Yakuza on each and every one of Dicker’s fingers, too.” Yakuza provide the best option yet for the Warped World of The Dicker, where self-promotion, self-interest, blatant propaganda, and kissing Roger ...
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