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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Zakir Hussain, tabla
... Hall and originally released in 1995 on audio format, Ravi Shankar's Concert for World Peace captures the commanding presence of the then-73-year-old sitar virtuoso as he guides the audience through four ragas backed by tabla player Zakir Hussain and ... Zakir Hussain and Master of Percussion; Indian tabla player and ensemble; 7:30 p.m. April 30; $14-$30. Peoria Civic Center, Peoria • Trans-Siberian Orchestra; pop orchestra; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 3; $36.50-$46.50. • Jerry Seinfeld; 7 and 9:30 p.m. Jan. 11 ... That's what Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain do on their new Global Drum Project . A much tougher approach is to reinvent percussion from the bones out, so that drums and other beat-makers surprise you, throw you ... Second-generation player of the santoor, a 100-string hammered dulcimer, will duet with tabla master Zakir Hussain, whose experience ranges from Indian classical music to collaborations with John McLaughlin, Mickey Hart and Van Morrison. Painted ... In celebration of their momentous anniversary, collaborator and world-renowned tabla master Zakir Hussain will create an original musical score and play live at every performance. This marks Hussain's third collaboration with Alonzo King, following ... Rasa,"featured an exciting new composition by tabla master Zakir Hussain, who has worked with King on two previous dances. Performed by Hussain and violinist Kala Ramnath, the music drew on classical Indian traditions, yet broke and scrambled the ... Harland achieved a similar effect playing with Lloyd and tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain (hear them on the live 2006 album Sangam ). Tenor sax tilted at 7 o'clock, Lloyd continued with "Migration of Spirit," a minor-key theme with echoes of Coltrane's ... Lines' silver anniversary season, opening Friday, will present two new King ballets - one set to Baroque music and featuring live musicians from the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the other to a new score by Zakir Hussain, to be played by the tabla ... This season, tabla master Zakir Hussain is collaborating with the company for the third time, creating an original composition that he will play live at each performance. Pushing the exploration of improvisation further, King also has joined forces ... When Hart brings his Global Drum Project to Overture Hall on Friday, he will tap into the wellspring of that universal rhythm with the aid of international percussionists Zakir Hussain on Indian tabla, Sikuru Adepoju on Nigerian talking drum, and ...
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