The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
|
01/23/2008 09:57 AM
|
|
Alicia Keys
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/20/2008 09:52 PM
|
|
Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/16/2008 08:53 PM
|
|
Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/15/2008 08:45 PM
|
|
Tom Baxter - Skybound
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/14/2008 04:54 PM
|
|
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/13/2008 03:16 PM
|
|
Chrisette Michele
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/12/2008 02:31 PM
|
|
Sara Bareilles
|
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, [...]
|
|
01/11/2008 02:27 PM
|
|
Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
|
“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 [...]
|
|
01/07/2008 04:26 PM
|
|
Kanye vs Beyonce
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/07/2008 01:42 PM
|
|
Fogerty’s Creative Revival
|
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 [...]
|
|
|
Alison Krauss
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, ``Please Read the Letter'' -- For a time I thought Plant and Krauss's ``Raising Sand'' (Rounder) collaboration was going to be my choice for record of the year but it fell short by about a song or two. On ``Letter ... 1. Amy Winehouse, "Back in Black." 2. Arcade Fire, "Neon Bible." 3. M.I.A., "Kala." 4. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, "Raising Sand." 5. Kanye West, "Graduation." 6. Miranda Lambert, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend." 7. Fratellis, "Costello Music." 8. Arctic ... But inventive music came from every direction -- from cult acts such as Radiohead, Spoon and UGK, virtual unknowns such as Justice and established stars such as Bruce Springsteen and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. And if you're ready to look forward ... The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song: In this special from earlier this year, such former collaborators as James Taylor, the Dixie Hummingbirds and (of course) Art Garfunkel join Alison Krauss, Yolanda Adams and others in paying ... Robert Plant/Alison Krauss: Raising Sand (Rounder) A most unlikely pairing produced the year's most engaging and adventurous album. Plant's helium-fuelled vocals are toned down a touch in the presence of the much younger, more centred Krauss. Rush ... Alison Krauss at CMAC, Aug. 3. "With her clear, mountain-stream voice, Alison Krauss could etch the Stanley Brothers catalog on a bottle of moonshine." Vans Warped Tour at Darien Lake, Aug. 10. "As the sun set, small condom zeppelins drifted lazily ... Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, "Raising Sand" (Rounder): The bucolic ghosts of "Led Zeppelin III" drift through this mystical blend of noir blues and country, with two magnificent voices whispering in our ears. Download: "Fortune Teller." 5. El-P, "I ... Robert Plant is already committed to a late-spring tour with Alison Krauss. But there’s a lot of talk about how the one-off Led Zep show this month rejuvenated the three surviving members and rekindled the urge to tour. Foo Fighters: As of this ... Dan Tyminski has spent much of the new millennium serving as either the singing voice of George Clooney (in the O Brother, Where Art Thou? movie and soundtrack), or as a guitarist and harmony vocalist in Alison Krauss' Union Station Band. Union ... 2. Raising Sand , Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - The pairing of Led Zeppelin screamer Plant and modern bluegrass queen Krauss raised some eyebrows, but the results are stunning. Crafty producer T Bone Burnett pitches songs by the likes of Tom ...
|
