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: American Beauty
American Beauty" (1999), "Road to Perdition" (2002), and "Jarhead" (2005) are all very American. They sure aren't triumphalist, though. Leave it to Stanley Kubrick to have it both ways: more English than the English and an American fully at home abroad Media move in for a closer look at the Buick Riviera concept car as it makes its North American debut Thursday before the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, gets under way on Sunday. CARLOS OSORIO / AP Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick ... Andy Gobeil, host of South Carolina's " The Big Picture ," a weekly news and public affairs program, calls them the "beauty parlor moms" - older African-American women - and he tells Talk of the Nation's Neil Conan they will decide the Democratic ... Thomas Doherty is professor of American Studies at Brandeis University and author of "Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and ... Without a Room" (1933), a painterly tale of Impressionistic artist and realistic models set in Paris, and "Search for Beauty ... dan vanman from vancouver, Canada writes: chris jenkins....all the parties may have voted, but in all the years I have followed politics (44 now, voted every time) I have never seen a government with such an American attack style. This man is ... Rounding the Horn The beauty -- and the beast -- at the end of the world ... We drove back to the Mariner on a graded, 1 1/2-lane road that is the Pan American Highway. A sign said, "17,848 Kilometers ... Department of Interior clearinghouse, where Native American groups could apply to be given the birds or their feathers for ceremonial purposes. Requests for interviews from Ocean Beauty officials were not returned. Commercial fishing is the main ... Other notable Broadway roles include Present Laughter , The Beauty Queen of Leenane and An American Daughter . Chip Zien (Buzz Richards) most recently appeared on Broadway in the revival of Les Miserables in the role of Thenardier. His many Broadway ... An odd year. The glories arose without fanfare and the most anticipated events flopped. The two megabuck story ballets - American Ballet Theatre's "Sleeping Beauty" and Peter Martins' "Romeo + Juliet" for New York City Ballet - were critical failures ... ... of Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty , which should be put to sleep. MCB did this famed classic set piece for the gala opening of the Carnival Center in 2006, and presumably the company felt it needed to make use of the elaborate, borrowed American ...
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