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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Yusuf Islam
Also participating at the conference are Imam Suhaib Webb, member of the Muslim American Society, Muhammad Akram Khan-Cheema, Education Consultant with the Association of Muslim Schools in UK, Shaykh Babikir Ahmed Babikir, Imam of Yusuf Islam's ... Ahmad adds: “We also have influences that come from the Islamic world such as Yusuf Islam and Raihan, and other nasheed artists that combine Islamic messages with sounds and rhythms from their particular culture.” “When you say nasheed artists ... For the profile on Washington-born convert Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, see here. For the profile of Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, see ... His simple, heartfelt and easily accessible approach to daa’wa (literally ‘calling people to Islam,’ an Arabic ... That there’s nothing wrong with saying there’s “nothing new” in Islam? That for a Muslim to kill unjustly, it is as ... by Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan and by Muslim scholars in the West including the popular Sheikh Hamza Yusuf ... CAIR National Legal Director Arsalan Iftikhar; and Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), who was barred from entry into the United States, in September of 2004, for having suspected ties to terrorists. Today, Beliefnet’s Islam section is entirely ... With all the negative images that Islam has to contend with today, Yusuf’s constant influence on peace is refreshing. “There is nothing new about the message that Islam is peace, that has always been the rhetoric, but we can’t just keep on ... This year RIS is proud to welcome among others, global scholar Hamza Yusuf , Warith Deen Mohammed (son of Elijah Mohammed) who is credited with reconciling the Nation of Islam with mainstream Islam, and special guest Pamela Paul, contributor to Time ... Uzbekistan's autocratic ruler Islam Karimov yesterday tightened his grip on power, when he was re-elected president in an ... Last week Yusuf Djumayaev, an opposition poet, was arrested in the ancient Silk Road city of Bukhara after putting an anti ... Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, prominent Muslim Brotherhood member and current dean of Islamic Studies at the University of Qatar, quickly came out in defense of the fatwa. “Islam prohibits statues and three-dimensional figures of living things,” he ... For once agreeing with the nation’s religious authorities, progressive sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi concurred that Islam did not require the practice, and came down hard on a number of clerics who had commented that they felt it was allowed. All three ...
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