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: Flop!
The Chargers fired Marty Schottenheimer a month after their playoff flop against New England last season. Their choice of Turner seemed a safe, uninspiring pick. Hall of Famer Dan Fouts, who twice got the Chargers within a victory of the Super Bowl ... Why? Because Dunleavy is 6-9 and, oh, yeah, 206 pounds, meaning almost every night was a mismatch against Elton Brand, Carlos Boozer, Kevin Garnett, Dirk Nowitzki, Kenyon Martin, etc. Nelson's experiment was doomed to flop and it didn't take long ... I could call off a quarter of my stack, catch a flop and see what Jim would do then, but in my mind it just wasn't worth taking that chance. There was no sense in risking a large portion of my stack when my tactic of raising the blinds was constantly ... It's one thing to turn a fabled movie flop into a roller-skating Broadway hit musical, with a tongue-in-cheek book adaptation by the witty Douglas... CD REVIEWS: YING QUARTET - Classical Joshua Kosman RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) The Ying Quartet, four ... If the results of a debate at the Asia Society last week are any indication, America is still not ready to accept steroids in sports - but we could be convinced to flip-flop on the issue. A sold-out audience at the Intelligence Squared U.S. debate ... If the results of a debate at the Asia Society last week are any indication, America is still not ready to accept steroids in sports - but we could be convinced to flip-flop on the issue. A sold-out audience at the Intelligence Squared U.S. debate ... The quarterback and defensive end, on different teams, still share a sibling bond of experience, excellence, public human imperfection and that play where the quarterback appeared to maybe flop for a record-setting sack by the defensive end. Each ... Metallica Pete is standing in the cold gray froth of the beach at Bundoran, like a latter-day St. Patrick, trying to bring the gospel of surfing to the people of Ireland. All around him, squadrons of wetsuit-clad teenagers flip and flop their bulky ... ... strike against the studios heading into its third month, the prospect of a glitzless Oscar party -- something similar to the 31-minute cortege of boldface names embalmed during last Sunday's not-so-Golden Globes -- looms like a faint mist of flop ... Former Cubs reliever Les Lancaster may be remembered best for his belly flop on the tarp during a rain delay in the first night game at Wrigley, 20 years ago this August. Lancaster, Sutcliffe, Davis, Ryne Sandberg, Andre Dawson and Doug Dascenzo will ...
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