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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Arthur Rubinstein - Piano
In 1974, he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, and he has won almost every sort of accolade since, including seven Grammys. He's widely known for his collaborations, especially with famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. He tours a lot ... Perhaps the best analogy to Eisner with a pen in his hand is Arthur Rubinstein or Vladimir Horowitz hunched over a piano, hammering out a Liszt rhapsody, transforming a frenetic jumble of ink on paper into an evocative and even whimsical creation. ... First, he was the piano soloist on one of Leonard Bernstein's nationally televised young people's concerts with the New ... When I was a teenager, I remember hearing people like (pianists) Rudolf Serkin and Arthur Rubinstein -- great artists -- say, `I've ... The son of noted pianist Arthur Rubinstein has composed music for five feature films and more than 150 television films and series. "The ideal life for me would be to live in the country where I could compose music on my piano," he says. "Then I would ... I was 19, and I got to meet Arthur Rubinstein because the piano movers dropped his piano. It was his last tour. My job was to tune the replacement. PT: Now tell me a moving piano-story. VI: I tuned for some of the greatest artists of the 20th century. I ... ... Andrew Sewell, will feature Anton Arensky's "Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky," Ravel's jazzy and lyrical Piano ... who was trained in Montreal and then at the Juilliard School in New York City, she won second prize in the first Arthur Rubinstein ... 1. Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor , performed by Arthur Rubinstein. As a teenager, I had all the LPs of Chopin's mazurkas, played by Rubinstein. I would put these on the gramophone and try to accompany them on the piano, and in this way learned all the ... ... who is only the fourth classical pianist in 30 years to be selected as a Kennedy Center honoree, follows legendary pianists Arthur Rubinstein, Van Cliburn and Rudolf Serkin. The distinguished musician has a history with the International Piano Series ... This was partly counteracted by Arthur Rubinstein’s Chopin nocturnes conveyed through an iPod, but I think reading in silence ... We were three or four hours late coming into Paris but it didn’t matter in the least. There was even a grand piano in ...
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