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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Arcana
... up for the first meeting at Deutsche Bank's Wall St office to help to set the trading rules and design the new product. "To tell you the truth, it's not very glamorous," Lippmann says. "Just a bunch of guys eating Chinese discussing legal arcana." To tell you the truth, it’s not very glamorous,” Lippmann says. “Just a bunch of guys eating Chinese discussing legal arcana.” Those meetings of the “Group of Five,” as the traders called themselves, became a turning point in the history ... ... suggested it could mean Kingston may be on its way toward becoming a more spiritual community and may eventually become known as a centre of meditation. Overall, Crockett said the cards laid on the table before her were power cards, or Major Arcana ... The second highest new entry is 2D beat ‘em-up Arcana Heart , a coin-op conversion for the PlayStation 2 from publisher AQ Interactive, with 23,000 units sold. The next highest entry is Factor 5’s Lair at number seven, with 22,000 units sold ... Google's distributed storage architecture for data is combined with distributed execution of the software that parses and analyzes it. To keep software developers from spending too much time on the arcana of distributed programming, Google invented ... And he had files on all manner of what he might call, in his deliberately orotund way, fistic arcana: unorthodox training methods, boxing in the movies, animals in boxing, bare-knuckle fighting and Jewish and Italian boxers who adopted Irish names. "I ... If the player decides to join the Art Club, for example, they can unlock the Fortune Arcana, strengthening all of the Personas who share that Arcana. The closer the player becomes to the people in each Social Link, the more power each Persona ... ... Jonathan Pryce), her former suitor, Norrington (Jack Davenport), and the ever-shifting location of a trunk containing Davy Jones' heart, but elucidating them would make this review longer than Middlemarch. The geeky intricacy of all this plot arcana ... In any case, this chunk of hip theosophical arcana rubbed up nicely against the season's other epigraph. It was, of course, H.L. Mencken, whom that new Fed quoted to Agent Harris on the subject of your powers of discernment: "Nobody ever went broke ... ... to those that rely on subscribers ( Reader's Digest )—editors attack each new cover with a pile of research that a NASA scientist would envy: stats on which celebrities move copies, lists of words and topics that readers respond to, and other arcana ...
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