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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Anoushka Shankar
Tens of thousands of listeners voted in the All Songs Considered poll for the year's best CDs. It was tight for much of the race, but in the end, Radiohead's In Rainbows was an overwhelming winner as 2007's most popular album. Rilo Kiley's Under the ... A Concert For Peace And Reconciliation , out July 10 on Anti- featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama , composer Philip Glass , sitarist Anoushka Shankar , the throat-singing Gyoto Tantric Choir , and Tom Wait s – performing with the Kronos Quartet and Greg ... Ravi and Anoushka Shankar Nob Hill Masonic Center, 1111 California; (866) 920-5299. 8pm, $25-85. See Picks, page 24. Shawna Virago, Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Storm Florez Femina Potens, 2199 Market; www.trannyfest.com . 7pm, $7. "Tranny Fest Unplugged." BAY ... Other festival shows this weekend feature Fred Hersch, Jason Moran, Ravi and Anoushka Shankar, John Abercrombie, Jacqui Naylor, and a tribute to Django Reinhardt. Check out the SFJAZZ Web site for details Details: CeU plays 8 p.m. Nov. 3, Palace of ... ... RAVI SHANKAR & ANOUSHKA SHANKAR There's not much to say about Ravi Shankar, one of the great musicians of the past 100 years, that hasn't been said ... Pop shows featuring singer Andrew Bird and Indian sitar player Anoushka Shankar did much better, Russo said, but still did not sell out, although Bird came close. Russo also said he thought it would not be easy to fill a house for acclaimed violinist ... ... Committee members Elton John performing in Las Vegas, Herbie Hancock in Japan, Tania Libertad in Mexico and Texas, Itzhak Perlman in New York City, Theodore Bikel in Phoenix and Ravi Shankar (playing with his daughter protege Anoushka Shankar) at ... It would be hard to overstate the influence of Ravi Shankar on music in the late 20th century. The sitar virtuoso brought the classical music of India to Western audiences, becoming, in George Harrison 's famous phrase, "the godfather of world music ... Ravi Shankar/Anoushka Shankar, Wednesday, Baltimore The sitar legend performs with his daughter and protégée, 26-year-old sitarist Anoushka. Fun fact: Anoushka is the only person in the world ever trained solely by Ravi Shankar. I guess calling him ... Anoushka Shankar: Coaxing spellbinding spiritual sounds from her sitar, Anoushka Shankar is poised to pioneer the next generation of Indian music. Performance starts at 8 p.m. Oct. 6 at the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd ...
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