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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Emmylou Harris
He was considered part of the Southern California'70s pop-rock clique, primarily because he had a musical kinship with Joni Mitchell, Gram Parsons protege Emmylou Harris and Eagles members Don Henley and Glenn Frey (all of whom were guests on "The ... Making Believe, Emmylou Harris -- Harris's sadly eloquent voice made this song of self-deception more than a tear-jerker du jour. 18. Coat of Many Colors, Dolly Parton -- This homespun country tale of a loving but impoverished childhood introduced ... He was considered part of the Southern California ’70s pop-rock clique, primarily because he had a musical kinship with Joni Mitchell, Gram Parsons protege Emmylou Harris and Eagles members Don Henley and Glenn Frey (all were guests on “The ... EMMYLOU HARRIS The queen of countrified harmony singing makes a South Bay stop before taking a year off performing Emmylou Harris and Sheryl Crow performed two songs, "The Old Rugged Cross" and Bob Dylan's "Every Grain of Sand." Kristofferson called Cash "Abraham Lincoln with a wild side," a nod to the singer's dual reputations as a champion of the poor ... Martin Scorsese captured the concert (and interviewed its participants) with a poignant portrait of hippie outlaws running scared in the Seventies, with highlights like Van Morrison's "Caravan" and Emmylou Harris' "Evangeline." The funniest moment ... The first performers to pay tribute to Gill were Crowell and Gill's former boss, Emmylou Harris. They sang "Some Things Never Get Old," a Gill composition from his current four CD album, These Days. Young told of how Gill had written one of his most ... The result was his boldest production to date, The Innocent Age (1981), a massive project featuring some VIP collaborators (including Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris), from which four hit singles, the earlier "Same Old Lang Syne" plus "Run for the ... Again, you may think you’re too hip for CMT, but they’ve been bringing a lot of interesting duets together on “Crossroads.” Earlier this year, Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits performed together and were critically lauded ... Also breaking into the album chart this week are Emmylou Harris' Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems at No. 49 and Rascal Flatts' Still Feels Good at No. 75. Because the latter album was officially released this week, it shouldn't be showing up on ...
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