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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Climax Blues Band
Fall Out Boy at the House of Blues, Feb. 6 Playing three shows in less than 24 hours ... and kicking off a year that would see them become our town's biggest rock band ... In its third year, the city's best rock festival reached its climax with a rare live ... Highlights include The Special Consensus bluegrass band; blues man Aaron Moore; cabaret singers Carla Gordon and Michelle ... The folks who program Enclave, Stone Lotus and Climax host a party for 3,500 at the Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave ... King is pretty much an annual visitor to Central Florida, but the blues icon looked ... For an indie-rock band from Seattle, Minus the Bear is on the high-energy side ... Beach's Peabody Auditorium, the Florida International Festival reached its climax ... As with the simmering encounter between Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in "Heat," the conversation at the climax of "American Gangster" between Washington and Crowe may not be enough for some audiences expecting literal fireworks. But these two are so ... ... tour came to Chicago's United Center Friday night (July 13), but the climax of the ... McGraw would be performing a Bread & Water show at the Chicago House of Blues after ... McGraw and Hill's opening duet, a cover of alt-rock band Snow Patrol's "Chasing ... A superb cast of 13 harmonizing on classics like "Kalamazoo," Alicia Dunfee singing "Blues in the Night," tappers tapping to "Strike Up The Band ... So by the time we climax with an Army-bound Biff tooting his final horn before shipping off to war ... ... turned 70 this year, was particularly moving on a collage of two Ellington blues ... Cole with a big band, and he made the most of the opportunity in his three numbers ... proving that jazz isn't necessarily about building to a big, explosive climax, but ... The Moonstation House Band (Secretly Canadian) War on Wusses Battles assaults formulas ... Seattle's Climax Golden Twins move among genres with quicksilver agility. From dusty blues to outsider rock to cryptic field recordings to thorny noise eruptions ... And, look, he’s even there, introducing the dreary pub blues of Lefthand with ... The same goes for the band: Patrick might take some ill-advised detours during an ... every move. “How do you choose between death and glory?” It is a haunting climax ... Of all the embodiments of rock 'n' roll over-indulgence, this band must surely be ... anything less than the full 70s stadium rock treatment would be an anti-climax. The ... when, on songs like Black Dog and In My Time of Dying, the sparse, taut blues needs ...
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