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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Yearning
Given time, he'll figure out you can only spend so many nights playing blackjack at the Bellagio and start yearning for the stifling August heat and exhilarating nightlife in Westminster. Ogden isn't playing coy as Roger Clemens did the past couple of ... Johnson believes the manifestation of that yearning, the fury he shows when things aren't going well, gets him unfairly tagged as a bad teammate who contributed to the Bengals' underachievement. Take the scene at halftime of the Bengals' Oct. 1 loss ... But the composer steeped in Old World traditions never stopped yearning for his musical and emotional roots - and for the city and continent that rejected him well past the Hitler era. Still, Mauceri feels Vienna has made amends. "There is a ... But on "Yo (Excuse Me Miss)" he found some of the soulful yearning of Marvin Gaye. Even on those few occasions that he lip-synched, when extensive choreography might have made actual singing problematic, he used his physicality to project the song ... The book includes the solemn and sardonic, including this verse from Calvin Trillin, yearning to escape the shopping zoo and endless loop of Der Bingle crooning and "Jingle Bells" jingling: "I'd like to spend next Christmas in Qatar. Or someplace ... That scale has attracted worshipers from across the region: government employees and retired military officers yearning for a sense of community that can prove elusive in transient Washington. But the church's growth, in turn, has threatened the very ... THE capital cities of the world’s paradise destinations are not places where the visiting traveler yearning for quality sand, sea and sunshine time is inclined to hang around for too long. But Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital and its largest city, is ... There have been indications of interest from a number of state governments, because they are faced with the task of, apart from the task of governance, they are faced with the yearning needs to develop infrastructure in their respective states, and ... She said more travelers are seeking out alternative accommodations, like renting rooms and private homes: “It has to do with money, and it also has to do with the yearning to get out of the cookie-cutter vacation and see a more authentic side.” ... Mark wants an outlet for the would-be rock star yearning that his career as a writer of commercial jingles, and his shrewish wife, have combined to bottle up. But truly, it's Page's film. Once she — and her character — move beyond the too-cool-for ...
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