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: Carpet crawlers
And they were no doubt particularly pleased by the soothing closing number, "Carpet Crawlers." But the pop fans weren't left out, with the band delivering strong renditions of "Throwing It All Way," "No Son of Mine" "Turn It on Again," "Invisible ... Others, usually older, are mall crawlers. But some who can't get enough of sirens and flashing lights and the smell of smoke ... Ultimately, the fire broke out one window and burned a section of carpet. But smoke damage was the worst part, staining the ... The DVD's extras feature four videos made for the album, nearly an hour of rehearsals for 1983's Mama Tour including fan favorites-- "Eleventh Earl of Mar," "Squonk," and "Carpet Crawlers"-- along with songs from Genesis . Following Collins' hit debut ... Genesis played the exact same set they have been playing throughout the tour, from the instrumental intro to 1980's "Duke" LP, which opened the show, to the closing "The Carpet Crawlers," from the band's last album with original lead singer Peter ... A two-song encore of "I Can't Dance" and "The Carpet Crawlers" followed and then, for better or worse, Genesis decided it was time to turn it off again. Reach Jim Harrington at jharrington@bayareanewsgroup.com . Read his Concert Blog at ... They did, judging by the thousands of voices that sang along with him on a lovely "Carpet Crawlers." Walking across Madison Street after the show, I overheard a man ask his friend for a review. "I don't know what to say," the overwhelmed friend ... The Carpet Crawlers" from "The Lamb" and "Los Endos" from "A Trick of the Tail" -- the better to draw both grizzled prog fans and aging '80s MTV hair-hoppers, as unlikely a mixed audience as rock has ever witnessed. Will either camp be entirely ... Carpet Crawlers The group ends with one last gasp for the old-schoolers. This delicate ballad, featuring Banks raining arpeggios from Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, is a fan favorite and was another staple of the band's concert repertoire until 1980. ... After the hits "Invisible Touch" and "I Can't Dance" came the final song, "The Carpet Crawlers," a sweeping, beautiful number that had the crowd swaying on its feet. Top that, Van Halen. GENESIS . The prog veterans return. Seen Tuesday night at Madison ... The show closed with "The Carpet Crawlers" -- a song from the group's landmark 1974 album "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway," with Collins singing the lead part that Peter Gabriel originally handled. Another "Lamb" song, "In the Cage," dominated a long ...
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