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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Young MC
First single Hip Hop Police was both a criticism and a defense of the genre. ("Murder was the case/And they blame me.") It failed to live up to commercial expectations but marked an important artistic shift for the young MC. Nick Gaitan hits the road ... Among the year's favorites were the Obama Girl video, created by Barely Political, featuring an attractive young singer professing her love for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. It has been viewed more than 4 million times and many ... MC Hammer hasn't topped the music charts since the early 1990s, but the former rap star says he has another hit in him ... Hammer and his DanceJam partners -- Geoffrey Arone, the chief executive, and Anthony Young, the chief technology officer ... In Things We Lost in the Fire, which was produced by Sam Mendes, Berry plays a young mother reeling from the sudden death of her husband (David Duchovny) in a random act of violence. She turns to his longtime friend, played by Benicio Del Toro, in ... ... Francis Lawrence, is the latest adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same name, following two earlier versions - The Last Man on Earth (1964) and The Omega Man (1971) - of which the latter, starring Charlton Heston, used to give young ... In Mississippi, the young entertainer found all the various connections to seriously pursue a musical career, including the aid of his father, who provided a recording studio. After the success of spreading his music through the Internet in 2004 and ... Totals 23 22-33 73. R-Parker 10, A. Jackson 22, Jeter 6, Womack 6, J. Jackson 3, Bennett 2, Young 11. Totals 22 14-21 60. Half ... MC-Blanck 2, Schroeder 8, Kling 6, Watson 2, Wood 2, Wheeler 3, Englehart 3, Schmitt 2, Gerrety 2. Totals 12 3-8 30. Half ... MC/VL; Muja Messiah; Skoal Kodiak. 9-pointer: Mouthful of Bees. Chris Riemenschneider's Top 10 albums 1. Dan Wilson , "Free Life ... Many of the best new acts of 2007 were young enough to make me feel too old [at 35] to be doing my job -- but exciting enough ... ... Dec 28 (Reuters) - State-run Union Bank of India (UNBK.BO: Quote , Profile , Research ) has shortlisted Spain's BBVA (BBVA.MC ... The bank has appointed Ernst & Young, DSP Merrill Lynch and KPMG as consultants, the paper said. (Reporting by Narayanan ... The recording industry is taking it on the chin, and young artists are now relying on concerts more than ever to survive ... includes the first-ever Detroit appearance by Denver's Sir Thomas, DJs Mike Scroggs, Donovan Tate, Matt B and MC Jevon ...
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