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: Enemy Of The Music Business
I once witnessed a record executive, spluttering over the failure of a singer to deliver her album to fit into annual release schedules, offer up the following piece of wisdom about the essential nature of the music business: "The artist is the enemy ... In these difficult times for the music industry, Mr Hands's business acumen surely can't hurt, can it? Well no. But without an understanding ... Once, the enemy was the T-shirt vendors outside the venues or the record fair bootlegger. Now, by selling ... ... attending tens of thousands of church services every week brimming with music ... chapter or more in the Scriptures, and afterwards dispose yourselves for the business ... by means of temptation, and keep always on the watch, lest the unwearied enemy ... The six start-ups will vie to be named inaugural winners of the Music Ally/MidemNet New Business Showcase award, with delegates ... hoped for a more influential audience to pitch to with the head of Vivendi, owner of Universal Music, and Public Enemy ... ... his patriotism as a prisoner of war in Vietnam by accusing him of aiding the enemy ... before -- and not just through strained similes or rallies set to mariachi music ... The AP says "the Fed's snapshot of business conditions showed a national economy ... My parents owned a small business, and our family life was more American than Hispanic ... fishing, ate our evening meals together, and were entertained with American music ... This means that gang members must spill the blood of a gang’s enemy before they ... ... meeting to take action keeping the neighborhood surrounding the new business a quiet ... 000 feet of the neighborhood, according to Schott, and late night outdoor music ... I agree with those of you who wrote that we are our own worst enemy. Give it a ... If you use more, you pay more kind of makes sense does it not? If John who uses Bit torrent to download games, movies and music is downloading several dozen gigs of files in a month he pays more than Grandpa Phil who maybe downloads 10megs a month. In response to the story published on January 10, ("Public Enemy No. 1," by Noah Bailey, January 10 ... These music creators are in fact the smallest of small business owners whose rights are no less valuable than the bar, restaurant or club's right to ... ... and message. Newsweek even dubbed him "the technology world's Public Enemy No. 1." A ... We quickly learn this in the publishing business. Carr's analysis of long-term search ... If the ambient noise (conversations, music, dog barking) in my house can be used ...
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