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 [...]
|
|
|
Album: Black symphony
Like almost all professional black and Latino classical musicians, violist John Madison rarely saw anyone who looked like him when he was playing in youth orchestras in his native Grand Rapids or studying music at the University of Michigan. So when ... For this evening of classic rock, the five-dozen classically trained musicians wore their traditional black formal wear. Guest conductor Larry Baird wielded the baton. Baird conducted the London Symphony Orchestra when it backed Kansas on its 1998 ... The 47-minute production starred Pam Dawber and Treat Williams, with Brian Dennehy as the sea king, Karen Black as the sea ... orchestral version, performed in Nueberg, Germany, by the Silver-Garburg Piano Duo, with soloists from the Bamberg Symphony ... The Atlantics from Austin will perform at Midland Center Feb. 8 for the Midland Symphony Guild's Diamond Gala Weekend. The black-tie event is alcohol-free. The guild is celebrating its 45th year as a non-profit support organization for the Midland ... BLACK ROCK ART CENTER Academy Theater Classes For children 8-16 in integrated training in voice, movement and dancing ... GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD Music competition The group is accepting applications from high school senior instrumental ... This week, as he led the orchestra in Schubert 's "Great" Symphony, Roberto Abbado was elegant from his black patent-leather lace-ups to his spread-tab collar and pearl-gray tie. The double-vented, wide-shouldered jacket was fitted to perfection ... Irving: The youngest man and first black person to fly solo around the world shares his experiences at the youth day ... Miami Symphony Orchestra's Evening in Vienna: Features overtures, marches and dances by Beethoven, Brahms, Johann Strauss and ... Music' // Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia, 5900 Symphony Woods Road, is presenting The Sound of Music through Feb. 17. Doors ... Warren's Profession, Wednesday through Feb. 24 at the college's Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Centers Black Box ... The black tie festivities, chaired by Mr. and Mrs. Alan Mulally and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ford, kicked off with a pre-event ... A highlight was a performance by teen soloist Kendall Pennington, who has been the featured soloist at the Detroit Symphony ... He submitted two radically different works into this show: the folk-art inspired Starship Rider, a hobby-horse-style wooden sculpture; and Cuyahoga Symphony, a mural-size acrylic painting in black and white hung unframed on unstretched canvas. Each ...
|
