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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Arnold Schoenberg
But with the rise of Arnold Schoenberg and other masters of atonality, detractors increasingly found his lush and sweeping melodies out of date. Adding to his woes were the victims of his father, Julius, one of Europe’s most influential music ... Atonal styles like the 12-tone music descended from Arnold Schoenberg and its post-war cousin, serialism, dominated classical composition in the 1960s and '70s. But Hartway found most of that music cold, even if he admired its craft. He wrote a few ... Slatkin heard his parents' quartet rehearsing nightly, and on any given day, Igor Stravinsky, Frank Sinatra or Arnold Schoenberg might visit the house. "I think the part that made the most impact on me was the variety of music that we heard day in and ... Gruber, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Hindemith, Abdullah Ibrahim, Arvo Part, Paquito d'Rivera, Daniel Schnyder, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Ezequiel Vinao and Frank Zappa. Järvi has recorded Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg's 1922 ... But with the rise of Arnold Schoenberg and other masters of atonality, detractors increasingly found his lush and sweeping melodies out of date. Adding to his woes were the victims of his father, Julius, one of Europe's most influential music critics ... Arnold Schoenberg once said: "If it is art, it is not for the many, and if is for the many, it is not art." But I don't think that's necessarily true. I believe that certain artists are capable of pleasing large audiences while also remaining true to ... It would be a little like a child spontaneously devising and employing Arnold Schoenberg's 12-tone scheme of composition. Even if Marla were an artistic prodigy, should her parents expose her - and themselves - to the world's scrutiny for financial ... Stockhausen's music was compared to Arnold Schoenberg and Oliver Messiaen before him. He went on with Pierre Boulez to offer a vision of the future. Stockhausen was seen by some as the greatest German composer since Wagner. To others, his ... As Lehrer points out, Arnold Schoenberg broke with musical tradition earlier and more thoroughly. There's even reason to doubt the book's keystone example: Some of Proust's famous insights into the workings of memory seem to have originated with ... For some reason, it makes me think of the composer Arnold Schönberg's observation (in 1951), "There is still a lot of good music waiting to be written in C major." So far, so good. But the writer of the piece I was reviewing was using ...
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