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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Yuzu
A fanciful appetizer set -- jellied duck slices, a salmon-sushi bonbon -- precedes a pillowy crab dumpling afloat in a yuzu broth. Twice-cooked tofu is followed by an earthy, rice-studded matsutake mushroom, all of which comes artfully arranged on ... Two chefs are involved, Laurent Godbout of Chez L'Épicier and Version Laurent Godbout fame, and David Biron, former chef of Quebec City's Asian-French fusion restaurant Yuzu. The concept here is "two chefs, 10 ingredients and 20 dishes," creating a ... Along with sushi, you'll find Japanese accents in the Chilean sea bass in yuzu butter, Asian barbecue short ribs and rib eye in soy garlic sauce. Details: 7243 E. Camelback Road (W Hotel), Scottsdale. March 2008. REM: Having sold Roaring Fork, James ... One evening whitefish was served nigiri style with thin slices of tiny yuzu and a drop of a salty, peppery paste he called kanzari, sprinkled with Himalayan salt. The Japanese have garnered a rep for Western, French-inspired desserts and pastries, and ... Appetizers Addictive Caramelized Nuts Almond-Parmesan Crisps Ancho-Rubbed Grilled Veal Quesadillas Antipasti Misti Antipasto of Asparagus with Freshly G... Apple Salsa Apricot Wraps Arepas Arroz con Queso Nachos (Rice with Che... Artichoke and ... This tasty treat turned out to be blue-banded sprat ( kibinago ), a little anchovy-like fish, with a dollop of yuzu kosho , a condiment made of yuzu (a Japanese citrus fruit), chile peppers, and salt. And that was it: We'd had our eyes on another item ... A couple of San Jose institutions also delivered stellar meals. Le Papillon's Scott Cooper redefined oysters by marinating them in their own liquor, tart yuzu, vinegar and a little dashi until firm but not quite cooked, then perching them on pillows ... But the crab sushi is probably the best I’ve ever had  a single, uninterrupted slab of meat laid across a faintly sweetened lozenge of warm sushi rice, no soy sauce, no yuzu, no wasabi, garnished only with a single ... Visitors to the spa will find themselves overwhelmed by the spiritual peace that inhabits all of Red Flower’s products, from the Yuzu Mimosa Sea Algae wash to the Rose Camellia Plum Soft-Water Mist. Spa Luce will also introduce its own line of ... Florida snapper ceviche ($8) is flavored with a balance of lime and fragrant zest of yuzu (a tart Asian fruit kind of like a small grapefruit) and a little roasted pepper. Roasted pepper appears again as a sauce underneath the house crab cake ($13 ...
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