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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Fela Anikulapo Kuti
... inspired by their adventures on the road, but few bands have gathered material as harrowing and vivid as Aphrodesia, an 11-piece San Francisco ensemble that made a West African pilgrimage to the club built by Afrobeat patriarch Fela Anikulapo Kuti. ... Years before Fela Anikulapo Kuti and his Afrika 70 juggernaut attained iconic status trailblazing Afrobeat throughout Lagos and the world (raising all sorts of hell in the process), another sax-playing Nigerian bandleader was already forging his own ... It's not easy being the son of a musical icon. Ask Jakob Dylan, Damian Marley, Shooter Jennings — or Femi Kuti. The heir to his late father Fela Anikulapo Kuti's Afrobeat throne has a new greatest-hits two-CD set ( Femi Kuti: The Definitive ... the year was African Art Resource Centre, AARC which used the legacy of late Afro beat musician, Fela Anikulapo Kuti to promote the art under its project, Experience Nigeria. With the sub theme, The Life and Times of Fela, the event was held on ... It would also remain disputable to say that Danjuma was a ‘friend’ of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Danjuma was in charge of the army when “unknown soldiers’ devastated Fela’s “Kalakuta Republic”. Were Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti to be alive and be ... My name is Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Fela means he who emulates greatness." Fela's sense of his importance is never in doubt, and with few resources by today's standards, the documentary gives a vivid picture of him in the political context of his time ... But rather than pay attention to the mournful by observing the anniversary of his death, the Anikulapo-Kuti family right from the very first edition of Felabration chose to emphasize the auspicious side of Fela’s chequered life by celebrating his ... Until we are free from this mafia with no conscience or morals, but brute forces, we are far from Uhuru! The great late Afrmusician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, was right afterall in most of his philosophical songs, especially, 'Arguements', with those ... Until we are free from this mafia with no conscience or morals, but brute forces, we are far from Uhuru! The great late Afrmusician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, was right afterall in most of his philosophical songs, especially, 'Arguements', with those ... And this is because we are always afraid of our own shadows as late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti once reminded us in one of his memorable lyrics: “Sorrow, tears and blood.” “We are always afraid.” “We fear to fight for liberty” “We fear to fight ...
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