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're My Jamaica
... Jamaica- gleaner.com ... form and I knew it was going to be tough, so I was ready to fight and give my ... But as an athlete, you know not every day you're going to feel 100 per cent and some ... ... Jamaica- gleaner.com ... I have this ritual where I burn all my disappointments at the end of the year. I ... Explore anything and everything until you're satisfied - or until your time runs out If you're looking for a Cuban fix here, you'll probably head to Jamaica Plain's El Oriental. The narrow space on the corner of Centre and Paul Gore streets ... Maduros (fried sweet plantains), a particular favorite from my childhood in Miami, are not ... First swings: I was invited to a celebrity tournament in Jamaica 10 years ago. My manager told me, "Say you play so you can go. ... Golf doesn't mean anything if you're cheating. Hardest challenge: Staying focused the whole round. You're playing ... ... from a rural suburb of a small town on the west coast of Canada and I spent my ... Acton when you're a bit lost. And Hampstead, because everyone there seems to go to ... warming drink in Kay's Bar, a cosy pub in an early 19th-century building on Jamaica ... You're the leading goalscorer in the A-League and yet the goals never flowed so ... You famously celebrated your one and only Socceroo goal against Jamaica in 2005 by ... The camps have been a great opportunity to strengthen my skills and train with a ... If you’re worried about being too busy to take a trip to the beach this summer ... the sounds of traditional Middle Eastern instruments — transcendental, in my ... ranging from Master Rakesh (India) to Fadel Shaker (Lebanon) to Jah Cure (Jamaica ... Wade tells Brandon tales of growing up poor in Jamaica and his life's accomplishments ... You're walking down this path in life and business and you come to these decisions ... I know to keep my eye on my goals and not let anything get in my way." Mentors ... ... This enriches the community, yet the community doesn't support it. "My whole thing is grow the sport and build back the fan base. But if you don't build the fan base, you're ... dash win here of two years ago by clocking 6.20 seconds to hold off Jamaica ... I'm sure you're right; it's not a discourse I'm that familiar with. One thing I'd note is that I talked to Phyllis Bennis a ... One thing I'm trying to do is bring my Jewishness right in, figure out my own Jewish American identity in the process... ...
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