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: Gaudi
Grignon's downtown office is clean and uncluttered, with the soft light of a desk lamp illuminating rows of photographs, prompting a visitor to ask about the trip he and his wife took rafting in New Zealand, or visiting La Sagrada Familia, Gaudi's ... Gaudi + Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, "Dub Qawwali" The pure, booming voice of the late Sufi Muslim Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is transformed by being paired with Italian DJ Gaudi's deep reggae grooves. Purists might balk, but they're probably ... Wallpaper praised Sangthong's work for its originality, comparing it to that of Frank Gehry and Antoni Gaudi. Sangthong describes himself as a designer who likes pared-down, playful forms and works intuitively to develop them. Jan Wampler, professor ... Expressionistic virtuosos—Borromini, Antonio Gaudí, or that Art Nouveau genius, Hector Guimard—created wonderful buildings, which are wonderful precisely because they are exceptional. An entire neighborhood of Gaudí—or Gehry—would be like ... Most memorable lodging: Tucked into the hills above Costa Rica's Central Valley, the 13-suite Finca Rosa Blanca Country Inn (rooms $215-$320) is a swirling, Gaudi-esque fantasy just 15 minutes from the San Jose airport. The cozy bed-and-breakfast ... For her wall hangings, she found inspiration in the drawings of Paul Klee, the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky, the architecture of Antonio Gaudi, she wrote in her 1971 book "Creative Knitting: A New Art Form." "Everywhere we look we find inspiration ... To be sure, Barcelona is the setting of the idiosyncratic architecture of Antonio Gaudi and an array of constructs by a recent parade of star architects. But as dazzling as these designs may be, I feel they speak more to the conceits of the ... Perhaps the most famous work embodying this spirit was Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia, a cathedral that has been under construction for more than 100 years and will be for an additional 30 years. It flawlessly blended old styles with new ideas and boldly ... Pulp sci-fi covers meet Gaudí's Barcelona cathedral. This Texas troubadour (his band, the Flatlanders, has performed on Letterman ) combines a keen eye for contrasting textures—that fluid dog against pointy fence slats—with rock-solid composition ... More Audi, less Gaudi, Part II: Car and Driver joins the crowd in dissing the styling of the big new BMW 7-series. Am I the only person who thinks it's a terrific design -- especially its controversial ass , which CD calls "humpback" and a "jumble of ...
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