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: Year Zero
“To experience how to pee in zero gravity,” was Hardik Gajjar’s reply to ‘why do you want to go to space?’ And the 21-year-old BSc student may well be doing that next year when he flies to space on the Rocketplane XP with a NASA astronaut ... Las Vegas was ground zero for gewgaws last week. From the useful to the entertaining to the ridiculously expensive, sumptuous ... Available later this year. Comment: It's fun but felt a little plastic-y for $2,700. Digital Underwater Camera Mask Who makes ... He said homicides were down 45 percent year-over-year since Zero Tolerance began. "We're a long ways off from making assessments of what works and what doesn't work," said Mayor Robert Duffy. "(But) nobody would argue that there has been a beginning ... The South African Weather Service says that while the amount of rainfall in Gauteng this week is not unusual for the time of year, the low temperatures are. The mercury dropped earlier this week with the onset of persistent rain. The maximum ... MERCER ISLAND, Wash. - Chip Wall can't help but zero in on the little stuff whenever he watches Barack Obama on TV. The turn ... Seattle, she worked for a bank and was the quiet yet firm influence at home -- moved to Mercer Island in 1956, after one year ... The chance of a further quarter-point cut on March 18 is 84 percent, the futures suggest, up from zero a day ago. Two-year notes yielded 1.16 percentage points less than 10- year Treasuries, the biggest difference in three years. A ... That year, the number of executions hit zero. Finally, in 1972, the Supreme Court effectively banned executions. But just a few years later, the nation began an astonishing about-face. The Supreme Court reopened the door to capital punishment in 1976 ... Goldstein said similar problems this year will mean ‘‘we run into trouble.’’ He said current indications are that ‘‘we’ll have zero free cash,’’ which is unspent money or revenues that exceeded estimates from past budget years. The ... ... Government basks in the glory (as it sees it) of the National Health Service, in its 60th anniversary year, there is ... But using the laws we do have more effectively, applying them with zero tolerance, and making junkies pay - literally ... Well, it’s Jan. 2. The new year’s unwrapped and it’s time to put it to work. I have to say, I’m a bit twitchy going into this year. The rational part of me says there’s nothing special about numbers ending in zero, but the part of me that ...
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