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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George Michael
A fuddled-looking George Michael makes a guest appearance, in his pyjamas. Poor man, he probably just fell asleep at the wheel of his Range Rover and woke up on The Catherine Tate Show. But he's reasonably good-humoured about it all. Kylie's the ... But his brother, Michael Carty of Wildwood, tells The New York Times that friends are stunned that George Carty has been charged. Those who know Carty describe a mild-mannered man who competed as a Scrabble player. Carty graduated from medical school ... Tony Gilroy also turned a negative into a positive with his George Clooney drama "Michael Clayton." He had to wait six months so that the busy actor could finish "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "The Good German." With that extra time on his hands, he ... They hired Daley & George -- the law firm of Mayor Daley's brother Michael Daley -- to get the land rezoned to allow 100 town homes. But neighbors squawked. So the project was scaled back to 35 single-family homes. The office building got torn down ... Guests on his show, which switched from BBC to ITV in 2004, have ranged from sporting icons such as Muhammad Ali and George ... His last show featured interviews with Sir Michael Caine, Dame Judi Dench and David Beckham. The show ended a career as a ... They also play the best cover of the weekend, a deliriously insane romp through ‘Careless Whisper’ that lays George Michael’s version face down in the mud, strips it naked and shoves a nine-inch dildo up its backside. Which is probably the way ... ... restrictions on media ownership is full of loopholes and will lead to a wave of mergers and fewer choices for consumers. Democratic Commissioner Michael Copps described the commission's decision approving the measure as "one that would make George ... George Michael, Dean Gaffney and Clive Owen are good value but many cameos (David Tennant, Gordon Ramsay) are clumsy and pointless. Ashley Jensen is terrific (particularly in a scene pretending to be Millman's PA), but Gervais seems to think all he ... Michael Moore focused only on how bad George W. Bush is and how he dealt with the 9/11 attacks. By doing this, Moore missed a very important point that Bush is not the main culprit. It is the American foreign policy that has been implemented for ... Once it was Michael Parkinson, Geoffrey Boycott, Alan Bennett and the actors from Last of the Summer Wine who helped define ... sloped-back foreheads of the newsreader Alastair Stewart and the singer Myleene Klass, the square jaws of the BBC's George ...
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