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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Bucky Pizzarelli
As a father-and-son team they remind me of the excellence that John and Bucky Pizzarelli have brought to the art of jazz duo performance." Locals Only Showcase featuring Your Embrace, A Forgotten Farewell, Under the Rising Tide, They Came in ... Feb. 23 -- Ken Peplowski Trio with Bucky Pizzarelli. Feb. 28 -- Sir James Galway with Lady Jeanne Galway. March 2 -- Smokey Robinson. March 17 -- Natalie MacMaster. March 29 -- The Moody Blues. March 30 -- The Beach Boys. April 1 -- Frank Sinatra Jr. ... Bucky Pizzarelli with Jerry Bruno will perform 8 p.m. May 7. Still playing a full schedule in his 80s, legendary guitarist Pizzarelli is backed by swinging bassist Bruno. They're the perfect pair for the intimate Mancini Hall, where the delicacy of a ... This week, the Ken Peplowski-Bucky Pizzarelli Quintet (at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola) and Andrea Marcovicci (at the Oak Room) are simultaneously bolstering Mr. Schwartz's heady claim. The proliferation of the Rodgers canon in all manner of musical forms is ... John Pizzarelli's crowd-wooing croon and cheese-leaning charm have always threatened to overshadow his very serious jazz chops, which is why an instrumental from the guitarist alongside his legendary father, Bucky, and bandmate brother, Martin, is so ... Recorded at the Little Italy hot spot, the record is simply and sumptuously John and guitarist legend/dad Bucky Pizzarelli clucking, plucking and strumming their way through '20s jam classics like "Sweet Sue" with brother/bassist Martin Pizzarelli ... Pizzarelli is the second jazz guitarist in his family; his father is 81-year-old guitar great Bucky Pizzarelli, who was busy Saturday performing, according to his son, in Zurich, Switzerland. John learned his style and his love of Nat Cole from his ... He is fortunate in his short career to have played with the cream of the Boston crop ... like Bucky Pizzarelli and Howard Alden. He is lucky he can separate both lives. How did you get into the music industry? This is a great story. I played ... Led by guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, the star-studded quintet included pianist John Bunch and cornettist Warren Vaché, and was the epitome of relaxed chamber jazz. While Vaché takes Louis Armstrong as his primary influence on the trumpet, Harry ... The 36-piece orchestra boasts a tour de force rhythm section, with legendary guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, plus Mark Hummel (piano), Dave Phillips (bass) and Steve Bartosik (drums), who were all mainstays from the original New York show. Directed by ...
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