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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Album: Brain Drain
When Raj Vaswami joined a little Silicon Valley company called @Home from graduate school in 1996 he could not have imagined what lay ahead. The consumer broadband company had the sort of free-wheeling engineering culture on which the Valley prides ... Stier hopes other older workers will reach the same conclusion and help government head off a brain drain. "Assuming we remove the obstacles, we'll be able to attract boomers who may have considered public service earlier in their ... According to him, statistics showed that the doctor-patient ratio in Ghana was 1:12,000, adding that, there were worst regional variations of 1:65,000 and that the phenomenon was against the backdrop of an alarming medical brain-drain that had hit ... Also, the region lacks a network between existing high technology companies, and has more college graduates than jobs available, resulting in a brain drain. One of Overmoyer’s recommendations is at least partly addressed by the changes at Momentum ... ... and the glowing reception to her New York comeback, she decided to form a full-time company in New York, Armitage Gone! Dance. Exalted by reviewers and presenters alike, her homecoming was seized on as a kind of counterpoint to the brain drain of ... They will in many ways reverse the brain drain that for years has robbed Robeson County of some of our best and brightest. But perhaps the most exciting part of this swelling of Fort Bragg is that businesses that huddle around military bases and ... Brain drain continues The labor group earlier said it expects the number of Filipino nurses applying for US jobs and subsequently passing the NCLEX to increase significantly in the months ahead on account of "the favorable home ground testing." ... The Dark Lord from Death Star, Canada writes: Dion is playing to the masses. The fact is you can't shift focus when people are shooting at you...Duh...grow a brain. Posted 14/01/08 at 8:23 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment Skilled migration (i.e., brain drain) can have a drastic effect on the domestic labour markets in vital public services. Bob Pond and Barbara McPake in The Health Migration Crisis: The Role of Four OECD Countries (2006), discuss brain drain problems ... Watkins expressed concern about the U.S. "stealing" educated professionals from poorer countries and referred to "brain drain" as the greatest impediment to development in Africa. Though there is perhaps some basis for such concern, it is important ...
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