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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Angra

Construction of Brazil's Angra III nuclear power plant will cost 7.2bn reais (US$4.09bn), according to Othon Pinheiro, president of federal nuclear company Eletronuclear . "This amount that we will invest to build the plant makes the power from Angra ... Argentina's Santa Fe provincial government has decided to push back the tender process for a 720mn-peso (US$238mn) program to build a number of aqueducts, the minister for water, public services and the environment, Antonio Ciancio, said in a release ... Ronaldo and I will spend new year's eve together in Angra dos Reis and I am sure we will begin negotiation. Things have evolved quite a bit overnight," stated the vice president. According to Leite, there exists another club that is interested in ... Last year, Gilroy added Angra do Heroismo, Pinheiro's birthplace, to the list of the Garlic Capital's foreign exchange partners. He said the timing of Oliveira's visit could not be better. "It's kind of funny that it's at this time, when we're all ... With a high degree of national content – topping at 85% in the generation and 89% in the compression modules – the construction of the P-52, at the Brasfels shipyard, in Angra dos Reis (RJ), generated 3,500 direct and 7,500 indirect jobs. When in ... He is heavily influenced by Angra and Rhapsody, among others. On drums is the "GOD of THUNDER", Scott, he plays drums like the thunder of the hardest storm with the ease and full force of the wind, sticks flying, skins pounding, cymbals crashing to ... According to Luiz Messias, project manager for the state company Electronuclear, if the continued construction of the Angra III nuclear power station, recently announced by the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had not been ... Gurdaspur SSP Lok Nath Angra flagged off the facility and appriciated the initiative of the NGO. Nandita Bakshi, secretary of the NGO, said they had been running similar projects in Kahnuwan. The mobile dispensary would visit different villages daily ... Arrested: The police has arrested Sunil Kumar of Pakhowal village and Rajesh Kumar of Nawan Tok village for duping several youths on the pretext of sending them abroad.District police chief Lok Nath Angra said here on Tuesday that Varinder Singh and ... Lok Nath Angra,district police chief, said here today that the police received two complaints, one from Ram Kumar, a resident of Gurdaspur city, that his son Ajay Kumar (10) had been kidnapped by unknown persons and another from Parkash ...
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