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: Cycles
Add the fact that for the past several presidential cycles, the GOP winner in South Carolina has gone on to win the party's nomination, and it's a recipe for the harshest state campaign yet in 2008. Even the issues are emotional, such as the economy ... Commodities have always been subject to boom-and-bust cycles, but many economists see a fundamental shift driving the markets these days. As development rolls across once-destitute countries at a breakneck pace, lifting billions out of poverty, demand ... The U.K.'s biggest retailer has underperformed the FTSE 100 Index in three of the last 10 years, and ``2008 will prove to be another such year,'' the U.S. brokerage said. ``Tesco has derated in each of the interest-rate cutting cycles in the last 20 ... Mrs. Whiggins from Canada writes: Surprise Surprise. Tory times are tough times. Sad. So many youth and the hell-bent-for-high-living folks do not remember the tough times their parents went through. These young'uns will be skewered like eels and ... These include, but are not limited to, economic conditions and trends in the semiconductor industry generally and the timing of the industry cycles specifically, currency fluctuations, the timing of significant orders ... Large-cap biotechs are more or less stuck in maturing product growth cycles resembling pharmaceutical companies rather than innovative research and development enterprises," said Wachovia Securities analyst George Farmer, in a note to investors Jan. 8 ... Sea level rise averaged 1 meter (3.3 feet) per century after the last glacial maximum. There are over 100 sq km of land in Fraser Delta that are less than 1 meter above sea level. It is some of the highest priced land in BC, heavily built up for ... Government contracts and subcontracts typically involve long payment and purchase cycles, competitive bidding, qualification requirements, delays or changes in funding, extensive specification development and changes, price negotiations and ... Backing his argument, Mr Ruddell said that Tesco had “de-rated” in each of the interest rate cutting cycles of the past two decades. He added that Tesco’s like-for-like growth – a key measure of year-on-year sales performance – could slow ... Tesco has underperformed the FTSE 100 Index in three of the last 10 years, and ``2008 will prove to be another such year,'' the U.S. brokerage said. ``Tesco has derated in each of the interest-rate cutting cycles in the last 20 years.'' ...
|
