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: Zen Arcade
In the immortal words of the balding, Anglo songster Phil Collins: There's something coming in the air tonight. As spring gives way to summer, there's a sense of hope and excitement making its way through Boulder County. Gone are the winter storms ... For sheer arcade-style action with a twist, I've been enjoying the laser-zapping-with-mirrors fun of Cyclops and the unusual ... with simply gorgeous sound editing), and Speck Oppression , a physics puzzle game that oscillates my frontal cortex into Zen ... Pinball FX" (Zen Studios, Xbox Live Arcade): The Xbox Live Arcade fea tures a treasure trove of casual games, the most addicting of which is "Pinball FX." For $10, you get four pinball tables, all of which are wonderfully difficult to master ... Hosker Do's 1984 Zen Arcade , which showed how a street-level hardcore band could play around with storytelling without diluting the primal anger of the music. On American Idiot , the thirteen tracks segue together, expanding into piano balladry and ... Miriam Sagan, a Jewish, Santa Fe poet, was 42 when her first husband, a Zen Buddhist Priest, died unexpectedly after ... The Insane Arcade Is Featuring as a public service to help visually impaired computer users be able to see their screen ... But Dick keeps at it, thundering bewildering Zen koans that tread the razor's edge betwixt the insightful and the inane ... who is unable to attend the Southpaw show (Dick intimates that he might be in prison) and thus provide the video-arcade ... The Feb. 14, 1985, record review section has reviews of three of '80s indie rock's most enduring albums — The 'Mats' "Let It Be," Husker Du's "Zen Arcade" and the Minutemen's "Double Nickels on the Dime" on the same page — four, four and three ... ... the use of digital video footage in both cut scenes and the arcade-style shooting game. The Rabbids take down a real news reporter in the opening sequence and the shooting game takes you to the actual streets of Paris, Central Park and a Japanese Zen ... ... Rez HD, N+, Sensible World of Soccer For Release [12.03.07] Though no games are in line for this week's regular Xbox Live Arcade ... Video Game Zen [11.29.07] So many video games are frantic, twitch-based experiences - so how about the inverse? Columnist Ian ... I love the Doors, Otis Redding, the Clash, Public Enemy, Lucinda Williams and Arcade Fire as much as the next music fan. But ... I was once talked into going to a rural spa where, after sipping tea in a Zen garden, you are placed in a tub of hot cedar ...
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