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: Dystopia
Midnight Juggernauts are already far more popular overseas than many big Australian bands, even though their debut album, Dystopia, has so far only been released in Australia. 'TO ME, the Bad Seeds have always been an Australian band, and we've been ... BioShock" is propelled by its lush evocation of an undersea dystopia and a story line capped by a piquant twist at the end. • Most difficult delivery: the new E3 The game business may be one of the few in which everyday consumers actually care ... Pullman's "Dark Materials" novels present a dystopia where the church is a corrupt, power-hungry, godless institution. Today's People Column was compiled by Randy McMullen and Tony Hicks from news service reports. Comments? Write to us c/o the Times ... Utopia/Dystopia The formerly homeless, the working poor, immigrant families, and current residents reflect on the state of downtown L.A. Beneath the middle-class nostalgia lies an American dystopia of their making, a state of disgrace now laid bare by social critics and the online hordes. Boomers traded tree-hugging for money-grubbing and ... Victoria Parks: It is wrong to assume Ohio's SoS Jennifer Brunner ordered testing of Ohio's voting machines, the same machine that were tested and failed miserably in California-aahhh, but are they the same tests? With Batelle Institute conducting ... Together, Meg, Charles Wallace, and a boy named Calvin O'Keefe set out to rescue Meg's father from the clutches of an evil entity known as IT, which has colonized the planet of Camazotz and turned it into a conformist dystopia, where children bounce ... It has played the role of simultaneously being a kind of arcadia and a dystopia. It's been a place of natural wonder -- when people talked about the redwoods back in the 19th century, they were always described as these Gothic cathedrals. There was ... It will also have themes of dystopia throughout the entire book (game). There won't be any chocolate rations either. This game will also have a horrible final half, as Ball State (Winston Smith) will be just flat out tortured and eventually finished ... Japan's Mono balances the feral and the fastidious. On previous albums, the post-rock quartet has released oppressive swarms of claustrophobic guitar, bass, and drums, sounding as majestic as it was malevolent. The group explored themes of dystopia ...
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