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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Album: Zawinul
I want you to know that it did not go unnoticed — despite news of the Zep reunion, or whether Britney should be appearing in public in a G-string while in zombie-mode, or if Kanye can out-insult Fitty — that Josef Zawinul passed away earlier this ... In recent years, musical icons like Wayne Shorter and the late Joe Zawinul have praised Gravatt's drumming flair, sensitivities and precision. Many drummers from the early days of jazz are dead — Max Roach, Art Blakey, Tony Williams and Elvin Jones ... As Greenlee writes, the band offers "a startlingly fresh batch of original tunes" by Jenkins paying tribute to the electric Miles Davis and Joe Zawinul. That comment is right on target. Also on the piano front, Ralph Sharon continues his Wednesday ... Joe Zawinul, 75. Jazz keyboardist; one of the creators of jazz-rock fusion with Weather Report ("Birdland.") Sept 11. Robert Jordan, 58. Author of "Wheel of Time" fantasy novels. Sept. 16. Blood disease. Alice Ghostley, 81. Tony-winning actress ("The ... ... Mario Rivera ... clarinetist Tony Scott ... bassist Art Davis ... pianist and composer Andrew Hill ... singer Carla White ... pianist Alice Coltrane ... tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker .. trombonist Jimmy Cheatham ... keyboardist Joe Zawinul ... Joe Zawinul, 75. Jazz keyboardist; one of the creators of jazz-rock fusion with Weather Report ("Birdland.") Sept. 11. Gene Savoy, 80. Explorer who discovered lost Inca and pre-Inca cities in Peru. Sept. 11. Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, late 30s. Iraq sheik ... Joe Zawinul, 75. Jazz keyboardist; one of the creators of jazz-rock fusion with Weather Report ("Birdland.") Sept 11. Bobby Byrd, 73. Longtime James Brown collaborator; co-founder of Famous Flames. Sept. 12. Brett Somers, 83. Actress-comedian; amused ... A number of jazz musicians played their final notes this year. Players who died in 2007 include the great drummer Max Roach , keyboardist and fusion visionary Joe Zawinul , the powerful and popular saxophonist Michael Brecker , the spiritual Alice ... Composer and pianist Joe Zawinul died at 75. Charles Barron lead a march on the steps on City Hall for the Jena 6. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University. Ground was broken for the Museum for African Art on the corner of ... ... Funkadelic, disco producer Giorgio Moroder with disco diva Donna Summer, fusioneers Chick Corea with Return To Forever, Herbie Hancock with The Headhunters, Jan Hammer with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Klaus Doldinger with Passport and Joe Zawinul with ...
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