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: Downtown
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- When Lombard-Freid Projects moved to West 26th Street in Manhattan's Chelsea area in 1998, the stretch between 10th and 11th avenues stood at the northern frontier of a fledgling art hub. There were only two other galleries, a ... Best Buy Dec. sales up 1.5 percent; 4Q profit guidance unchanged Bouquet bank robber also carries gun, takes the money and runs Man suspected in many identity thefts, other crimes is nabbed Dad suspected of leaving son, 1, in van as he sat in strip ... During the last decade, thousands of renters have bid adieu to the 'burbs and headed downtown for a taste of urban living. The trendy new loft apartments and growing base of restaurants and retailers in Dallas' core marks a comeback for a center city ... In truth, the Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau has always been more about developing the city's lucrative convention business than it has ever been about attracting tourists. And in truth, the convention-development effort has become much tougher ... To give tourists a better impression, rundown buildings _ including rows of dilapidated houses near downtown Liverpool _ have been hidden behind billboards covered with paintings and poetry. The efforts to mask buildings in disrepair have not been ... The 430-year-old school, whose shows at the former imperial stables at the Hofburg Palace in downtown Vienna are among the Austrian capital's top tourist attractions, lost nearly $2.9 million last year, said business adviser Elisabeth Guertler. ... But while Perry's work tends to skew female and include at least one mansion or Mercedes, Talbert is a Baltimore native whose work tends to be more downtown and masculine. Sympathy here is clearly with Cube's overmatched character, a Mr. Fix-it and ... Her parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham -- he was a boisterous, itinerant furniture salesman in downtown Seattle, she worked for a bank and was the quiet yet firm influence at home -- moved to Mercer Island in 1956, after one year in a Seattle ... Cuts will not be limited to the Sun-Times, the company's downtown flagship. Sun-Times Media, which has hundreds of area titles, has estimated it will save $10 million from having the Chicago Tribune handle most of its deliveries and folding its south ... Back downtown, Sun-Times Editor in Chief Michael Cooke has incurred union wrath for his recent shift of two relatively new hires -- page designer James Smith and editor Garry Steckles -- to exempt positions, protecting them from union layoffs that ...
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