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: You Got Rhythm Too
... Love" and "Avalon" charmed the audience -- and the quartet's five-minute upper-tempo "I Got Rhythm" positively sizzled. After intermission, the orchestra too ... on her NPR program "Piano Jazz," "and he played [the type of] harmony like [he had], you ... The way poets talk about poetry in terms of rhythm and ... I got interested in Frost’s use of the vernacular. He taught you to respect the way people around you spoke. ... old coffee, or that starchy steam you get when you iron a shirt when it’s too ... So I don't think she'll have too much of an opening statement, since you've heard from the President, but she ... because when it was clear that he was coming, they met, they got ... I think there's a kind of rhythm to negotiations. And it's probably not ... The whole team is out of sync, and he was, too," coach Flip Saunders said ... in the first quarter, driving inside for lay-ups to establish a rhythm. "He just got his ... You really can’t explain why it happens, you’ve just got to hope, the next night ... On the road the Mountaineers have struggled to find the rhythm that has them off to a surprising start in coach Bob Huggins’ first year at his alma mater. ... When you have defensive intensity, everybody feeds off that ... If you're wondering what these basketball players have in common, you're not ... He was able to get to the basket and got in his rhythm early," Johnson continued. "We gave ... perhaps go to some sort of junk defense to bottle up Harvey: "Maybe I was too ... There is just no rhythm on the offensive end, while on the defensive end the help ... If you want to take something good out of this game, look at the defensive end of ... He, like every other Spur, fell into the trap of playing too much one-on-one ... But you might think otherwise scanning Internet message boards, where some antsy ... The Trojans are too inconsistent, the fans grumble. Star freshman O.J. Mayo takes ... They've just got to understand that this was two games they could have won, but ... He closed with 69-69, and brought that rhythm to Waialae ... Too early for that," Walker said. "I just want to keep playing well. You'd love for the fairy-tale ending, but there's a lot ... If you get the ball in the fairway, you've got a chance to do ... If you're looking at five forwards, five guards and two centers ... in the course of a game, he's letting the other guys get in the rhythm. In recent years, he'd have the killer instinct right from the tip -- then he would get frustrated when he got ...
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