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: Yankee hotel foxtrot
In contrast to the word-of-mouth hype that grew around Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," Beck's "Sea Change" seemed to come out of nowhere. Given the poor critical and public response to Beck's last record, the playboy-type R&B of "Midnite Vultures," it ... Have they only been a fan since "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot?" Best songs 1. "Young Folks," Peter Bjorn and John. It came out late last year, but so what? I'm a fool for catchy whistling. 2. "Rebellion," the Arcade Fire. I really like "No Cars Go" from "Neon ... The latest from Jeff Tweedy's Chicago outfit is an unusually normal album - a kind of conservative rebellion against the band's earlier experimentalism, most notably found on their classic "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." Instead, these are wistful ... The band moved away from the sonic squalls contained on 2002's ``Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'' and 2004's ``A Ghost Is Born.'' ``Let's Not Get Carried Away'' is on the special tour edition of the CD. Bruce Springsteen, ``You'll Be Comin' Down ... Sky Blue Sky" may be a retreat from the noisy experiments on Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and "A Ghost Is Born," but the return to its late-'90s alt-country sound is informed by the band's dabbling in the avant-garde. This is the disc I played more ... It makes sense that the stomping psych-pop of "Nothin' No," the opening track of The Moonstation House Band , bears a resemblance to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot -era Wilco. The song was co-written by ex-Wilco member Jay Bennett, who loaned his studio to ... Dispensing with the buzzy, blurry electronics of 2002's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and the opaque artiness of 2004's "A Ghost Is Born," Jeff Tweedy and Co. have fearlessly jumped headfirst into ... sun-dappled folk-rock. Good thing, too, because the ... As good as they were, I thought parts of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and "A Ghost Is Born" got bogged down in electronic experimentation. Gussying up a good song doesn't always make it better -- and the simple, airy treatment given to "What Light" makes ... Consider Wilco, who had their contract canceled becaus the label didn’t think the album, “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” had commercial viability. Wilco put the tracks on their Web site for free downloading, and shortly they had an offer from another ... The band's 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was a magical affair, melding combative electronics, coruscating melodies, warped guitar riffs and singalong choruses aching with heartache. Where Tweedy will lead the band next is anyone's guess - but it's ...
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