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: You Can Play These Songs With Chords
P.K. 14's thrashing chords, dark bass lines and ... We can go wild: do a break here, play this, lace in that," explains Magno. "Our ... Very often, the demo is the final song you hear on the record," she says. "It's direct and honest." But these are ... They will need to wear boots and snow pants to play in the snow ... A reminder that you can find lots of information about Crocker and ... Students learn fun songs to go along with each letter to help them learn these sounds. Her debut album, El’ab is an invitation to well, you know play. It ... is actually a factor in the music video game, and the songs on ... He has yet to tap into the true power of his vocal chords. In an album of typical dirge, however, you can’t ... ... down to a finite number of notes and chords which have produced an infinite number of songs ... the same notes as Metallica to invent songs. It’s a matter of how these ... computer to create every song, but you can’t imbue it with the humanity to play it ... ... competition franchise seasons -- "So You Think You Can ... feel, but knowing this is real life and these kids have been through this in their lives. When you hear about frozen vocal chords ... is all of 41 minutes and by the time you've sung your songs ... These days, Depp, 44, and his family (French singer-actress ... Conversation with the quick-witted Depp can careen from ... door, didn't leave, and taught myself how to play chords. I started learning songs by ear. What was the first song you could play ... And these songs were screaming out for ... and say simply I need you to agree to be a band member here, as a player. These guys have to be given their [due]. They can’t just ... take a back seat in a lot of songs. She has to be a band member and play ... ... first four records contain some of the most gripping songs he ever wrote. Thank you ... that they will not be able to make it this way to play." We wish them the best and will keep you ... You can check out said poster at www.coachella.com, which will ... ... Meet Me at the Movies," "You Can Get High ... he gave me a book of the Beatles chords," John continues. "He said, 'Oh, just learn these and you'll be able to write songs. ... other stupid rock clichés just play dumb these days. It's like, c'mon, are you an ... You can feel Perdomo and his bandmates going beyond themselves. Formulas are ... band, heavy on singers and percussionists, many from Guadalupe, to play his joyous songs. ... There's huge warmth in the young pianist's playing, in his chords; they seem ...
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