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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Young Knives
NAIROBI, Kenya - Sixteen-year-old Dan Mugambi stands guard at a bridge in his Nairobi slum, one skinny hand on his machete, ashes caught in his hair. Behind him, hundreds of angry young men -- armed with knives, machetes, saws and shovels -- scream ... ... few hundred metres: trees, telephone poles and large rocks forced cars on to the verge, where youths with clubs and knives ... Baraton, a young Kikuyu student from the University of East Africa, spoke via a mobile phone. She could not leave her room ... Now the proliferation of broadband Internet access is forcing players to rethink the ways they reach young people. “Kids ... And critics are sharpening their knives. “We cannot allow the media and marketing industries to construct a childhood that ... ... of witchcraft/sorcery being true in the real world until recently when I witnessed the torture of a young woman ... men stripped her naked and forced her to walk the streets, torturing her with red hot iron bars and bush knives. ... Yen and his chefs sharpen their own knives every day on ceramic wet stones. The first stone is rough, the second medium, and ... Young ginger is sliced and cured in sugar and mirin, a sweet rice wine used for cooking. The lime-green prepared wasabi is ... Today, those young men will play Oklahoma with knives sticking out of their backs. Rodriguez did this. He can take his career where he wishes and he can break contracts. He can also get sued. Pay up, pal. And then there is the local angle. The luring ... In Norway, where this brutal act is also prevalent, a young Somali woman was recently beaten, almost to death, for talking ... the crude operation for up to £40 a time, often on kitchen tables or floors, without anaesthetic, using filthy, blunt knives ... ... McCann lived at the Railway Tce home for 15 years and more recently had shared the house with a girlfriend and her two young ... Forensic tests are being conducted on a tomahawk, knives and other weapons found at Mr McCann's home. Acting Superintendent ... I agree all young males (not just white as you want to be searched)should be searched for knives. Strange though that when tv reports the number of deaths through stabbings and shootings that black males seem to be the dominant group involved. Is ... The teenage girls politely sipped cans of Pepsi through straws, and the young men puffed cigarettes and stared at the stage ... Then the teenage boys stood with table knives to perform "the daggers," a Gypsy dance, and soon dozens of people were holding ...
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