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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Gene Autry
In 1949, Gene Autry recorded the song, selling nearly two million copies. Popular ever since, "Rudolph" and the sounds of other Christmas songs fill the air every year. But how much do you really know? Take this quiz and find out. The Little Drummer ... ... that might be because I was more intent on flushing outlaws out of Jenny Creek Canyon, hustling enough change to catch a cowboy matinee at the Cascade Theatre, getting my bike tire pumped up or listening to Johnny Appleseed, Roy Rogers or Gene Autry ... You might remember some old friends you've forgotten, like cowboy Gene Autry and his horse Champion, or collect some decorating ideas, like lustres, which are mantel vases from the late 1800s hung with light-reflecting prisms. And if you catch the ... ... new gun and holster and a cowboy hat at Christmas when I was 5 or 6. Nowadays, if a little kid has a toy gun, somebody is scared to death he'll point it at someone and go 'bang-bang', like I and a thousand other kids born during the days of Gene Autry ... A longtime Hollywood six-string kingpin, Casher really has, as he likes to say, gone from A to Z — in the mid-’60s, he was the Gene Autry Melody Ranch television show’s featured ax-man, and after dark Casher would head to the Whisky to sit in ... The Life and Times of Gene Autry and Mitch Myers' collection of essays titled The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling . Of 2007 boxed sets, you couldn't do better than Emmylou Harris' splendid Songbird: Rare Tracks ... In 1949, Gene Autry recorded "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and sold 2 million copies. A few years later Marks' next-door neighbor, a filmmaker named Arthur Rankin, saw the elegance of Marks' misfit-cum-hero story, as well as the breadth of the ... Hecky Krasnow -- the record producer who persuaded a drunken Gene Autry to sing the song that became Columbia Records' first million-selling disc -- was a stalwart liberal. Figuring that Rudolph, with a prominent proboscis that was not only ... Over the years, jimson weed has drawn attention. Georgia O’Keeffe painted it. Gene Autry sang about it. And recently, some teenagers around the United States and southern Ontario have become seriously ill after ingesting the plant. What many people ... With song titles like "Summer Wastin'" and "It's My Lazy Day," the album meditates on the simple pleasures of leisure time. Egge's has a gorgeous voice that's slightly rough around the edges as she sings warm adaptations to classics by Gene Autry ...
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