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: African Drums
The guitar, bass, keyboards, and trap-set drums are used stylistically to create and interpret African melodies and rhythms criss-crossing with African drums like the Yoruba talking drums and Bata drums. Other African percussive instruments like ... Both are now longtime Bay Area residents, and together, they fuse North American and North African sounds featuring oud, gembre, and dembek in addition to sax, drums, and bass. A recent CD, Sahaba , attests to the band's social consciousness: Shaheed ... CARNIVAL bandleader Mike Antoine, better known as Big Mike, has been involved in various aspects of TT’s culture for many years. Always an avid masquerader, he played pan with Blue Diamonds as a youth, beat tassa and African drums and competed in ... Surrounding him onstage are hand drums, a log drum, a large gourd cut in half and played on a pillow, booming bass drums and even a metal scraper. These West African-style percussion instruments are essential in creating the band's blend of ... He plays the didgeridoo plus half a dozen other instruments, from African drums, to the Irish flute and even a shell. Tourists are encouraged to try them, especially just outside the Waitaia Cave at Waitaia Bay. "We us them to break the ice. It gets ... ... is a race against time as a new mediation team prepares to tackle Kenya's election crisis while ODM beats the war drums for mass action. Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan will head the new panel of negotiators which includes former South African ... Over time, Richard Daley, who is still with the group, replaced Leslie as the bass guitarist, Barovier was replaced on drums ... We've been to quite a few African countries, we've been all through Africa. As a matter of fact, the United Nations, around ... AS THE KENYAN CRISIS RAGES: Drums of war threaten Africa’s stable democracy ... As an immediate step to this, the African Union, AU, is expected to prevail on Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki to allow for ... ... in Rio de Janeiro, a broad mix of Cariocas (Rio residents) stood outside Imperatriz samba school listening to pounding drums ... the celebration to Brazil in the 1500s, but it took on a decidedly local flavor by adopting Indian costumes and African rhythms The one-hour show, which features members of a local Sufi sect playing traditional instruments including drums, cymbals and ... Founded by a Moroccan merchant in 1674–5 as a resting place for North African pilgrims on their way to Mecca, Terbana is ...
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