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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Zap Mama
Lif, Aesop Rock, Anticon, and Mos Def (who earns ninja status by rapping in Japanese on "Shinjiro"); in addition to the cross-cultural hip-hop joints, there are also tracks with singers Esthero ("Final Home") and Zap Mama ("Danger of Love"), and some ... ... his throat for the techno throb in the album's hidden track. Phrenology plugs the Roots' fabled beatboxes into songs not solos, rubbing together a little spit to make things stick. (Scratch, who does a mean Cybotron, was recently stitched to Zap Mama ... What's wrong with you mama, but then he ran off to tinkle on something. But I figured hey, look at the bright side if this is ... I hope it won't zap my energy too much. We'll see. I have a few weeks to recover then---Radiation begins. Have a good day y ... In its most recent sold-out concerts last weekend at Cary Hall in Lexington, Page directed the Mystic singers in songs ranging from the 16th-century German composer Michael Praetorius to the contemporary "Afropean" group from Brussels, Zap Mama. ... Ida Mae’s mama, Lilly Pate, invited him in. She fed him pigs feet and cracklin’ bread and greens. “Now,” Lilly Pate ... what happened, so she could exactly remember what happened, so she could tell Lilly Pate how to beat the storm when….ZAP! The hospital could do little more than stabilize him as Mama Angela (Cristine Rose) and Heidi Petrelli (Rena Sofer) tend to ... While Elle runs off to zap Adam, The Haitian hides Peter in a storage shed in Cork, Ireland, and erases his memories so he ... With only a floor lamp, some revolving colored lights, a lava lamp projection and some sparkly Christmas lights on the floor to guide us, we start moving to the hypnotic "Rafiki" by Zap Mama. A few gals are a little stiff and self-conscious but by ... Zap Mama, Courtney Cowe, 8 p.m. today; Nada Surf, Sea Wolf, 8 p.m. Friday; The Oranges Band, The Jennifers, Artanker Convoy, Paper Route, 8 p.m. Saturday; Porter Batiste Stoltz, 8 p.m. Sunday; open mic night, 7 p.m. Monday; Five Bands for $5, 7 p.m ... She gets celestial this time. On Supermoon -- the new album by Marie Daulne, the musical globe-trotter better known as Zap Mama -- the Congolese-Belgian singer wanted to make a personal statement. The title is a reflection of the way she sees herself ... John, Fall Out Boy, Common, Plain White T's, The Black Crowes, Irma Thomas, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Ska Cubano, Zap Mama, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Marc Broussard, Paolo Nutini, Gym Class Heroes, Morning 40 Federation ...
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