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 [...]
|
|
|
Animals
You see a lot of yourself in these animals. The great apes are our closest relatives." A necropsy showed that Nonja suffered a brain hemorrhage that made her pass out and vomit. She choked on her vomit, Magill said. Further testing will determine what ... There are also rescue animals, from dogs to horses, that need constant care. She employs dedicated staff who share her beliefs in caring for animals and the land. "After the tsunami of 2004, one of my caretakers volunteered to go to Sri Lanka for ... Most of the animals die before they reach their mid-40s, according to Magill, who said Nonja had mothered five offspring. "She was a grande dame and I think she knew it," he said. Nonja was shipped to Miami from a zoo in Holland in 1983 and her name ... He says it is much more likely that Neanderthals evolved as a result of these climate changes which drastically reduced the diversity and availability of animals to hunt. "If the Neanderthals were already having trouble how would it have been ... As doctors also failed to ascertain the reason behind the death, the probability of intentional sabotage by poisoning to curb the intrusion of wild animals in farms has increased. B S Padve, RFO of Chimur Forest Range, said that the veterinary ... The most passionate dispute focuses on a clutch of red roofs sprouting on the windswept plains south of the park, where wild animals and Maasai herdsmen roam. They mark the first stage of a township where 10,000 residents from Nairobi's huge, squalid ... People should also stay out of the sun as much as possible and never leave children or animals in cars. The hot weather has also forced Monarto Zoo to close because of the fire risk posed by buses and by people walking through the park. Yesterday ... After a decade in whcih the numbers of animals in the wild was slowly rebuilt, 9 gorillas have been killed this year, thanks to the fighting on eastern Congo. The business is only small scale but it's a profitable one. It involves driving two hours ... All your animals adored you because of your special gift of understanding their needs, and you were able to tame any pony large or small. Over the years we have watched you compete in show jumping, cross-country and other pony club activities. On each ... Rhoda Pritzker, a British-born member of Chicago’s affluent Pritzker family whose philanthropic work on behalf of animals and the arts nurtured PAWS and numerous other cultural and educational institutions, died Dec. 23 after a lengthy illness at ...
|
