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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Dexy's Midnight Runners
The competition was judged by 1980s rock star Kevin Rowland, lead singer with Dexy's Midnight Runners. He said: "Judging the competition was a real challenge because the standard was so high. It was obvious that a lot of feeling went into the entries ... The Rumble Strips, “Alarm Clock.” An EP from an English band that has drawn comparisons to Dexy’s Midnight Runners and survived anyway. “Yo! Indie Rock Raps.” Tracks from Hellogoodbye, the Hush Sound, Say Anything and other acts that ... What's the Deal? Though they have been compared to the Fratellis and Dexy's Midnight Runners, Waller cites his chief influences as Lou Reed and Adam & the Ants. The EP's title track is a blood-pumping, frantic wail about the agonies of the rat race ... Leading off with a ragtime cut-up of OutKast’s “Hey Ya,” featuring Dexy’s Midnight Runners pianist Mick Talbot, Lee leaves the listener happily humming the vocal melody while wondering why exactly we need this version. So it goes for much of ... Like Dexy's Midnight Runners fronted by a less Mockney-twattish ‘Parklife’-era Damon – with a dash of ‘Hunky Dory’-era Bowie for good measure – they’re little short of phenomenal. ‘Na Na Na Na Naa’ is more naggingly catchy than the ... So, as you said, you got Priest, you got Electric Light Orchestra, you got the Move, you got Black Sabbath, you got parts of Led Zeppelin, you got bands like Duran Duran and Dexy's Midnight Runners. It's a whole cross-section of music that came from ... If hell is other people, then what kind of infernal torture must the office Christmas party be, when the other people are cufflinked types in paper hats biting their bottom lips and dancing to Dexy's Midnight Runners? Or women in Next separates ... Vincent Vincent and his marvellous Villains and this delicious piece of timeless rockability nonsense (filtered through Dexy's Midnight Runners with a generous Libertines cherry on top) about being left on your tod. Infectious? Even quarantine couldn ... Cocker and Jennifer Warnes – Up Where We Belong to classic rock anthems like Europe – Final Countdown and karaoke favourite Come On Eileen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Club 80s is the only party album to recollect about some of the best times of ... VV&TV meld Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ work ethic with Orange Juice catchiness, pop it in a pot with Lonnie Donegan skiffle, add a raggle-taggle pub singalong and kit the whole shebang out in natty secondhand threads. And at a residential recording ...
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