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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Disinter
I’ve been able to bury and disinter about 30 people so far, and I’ve got that process pretty well down now,” said Ayers, who has secured a series of court orders to allow proper burials and disinterments. “The biggest problem has been access ... Marathe's bent for numbers sent one reporter running to his Bartlett's to disinter a quote from that noted football mind, Henry Clay: "Statistics are no substitute for judgment," though it's not clear who was arguing they were in the first place. "Who ... We need to disinter him. We need to see (the body)." Baumgartner could rule on the request Jan. 18. That's when the next hearing has been set. Within hours of his 1992 death in what appeared to be a strange farming accident, Ed Dossett's widow agreed ... If a person/member has any type of criminal and/or drug history, are they removed from 'enrollment'? How much money would each clam member receive from casino profits? How many would disinter a relative for that 1/8th of a percent bloodline? ... CASE OF A MISSING BODY Judge: Open grave with care Grave keepers will disinter a Homestead man in the hopes of finding another man mistakenly buried in the wrong plot. It's a good feeling to be able to help somebody that can't help themselves," said Owens, who helped disinter William Hayes. No one will ever be laid to rest again in Site 1465, Section 24A, William Hayes' mistaken plot, Calverton director Michael ... ... for donations to finance William Hayes' reburial in a private cemetery, said deputy public administrator Steve Alfasi. If the money cannot be raised, he likely will be buried in potter's field in New York City. The federal government hopes to disinter ... The metal box contains contributions from city council members and others and will be sealed in plastic and buried near the fountain. The plan is to disinter it in another half century. Simpson pointed out that a few members of the Mayor’s Youth ... Conversely, some state judicial decisions also hold that nontribal landowners' rights do not include the ''right to disinter [Indian] remains and build in the area'' ( Hunziker v. Iowa ). In particular, state common law confirms that relatives such as ... The fence also could block wildlife from watering holes and kin, and it's expected to disinter Indian remains, an outcome the Tohono O'odham Tribe deems "unacceptable."
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