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: Ghetto Life
In a poem called "Campo dei Fiori," he contemplates the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto by the Nazis while life in the world outside goes on as usual: "That same hot wind / blew open the skirts of the girls / and the crowds were laughing / on that ... When Lorenzo Steele Jr. talks about life in prison, sometimes his pictures tell the story even better than he can. ''They cut ... The first thing they [rappers] do when they get their millions is they leave the ghetto,'' he said. ''You see them on [the ... But if you want details, rent "The Pianist," Roman Polanski's film about the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. "That was my life," she says. For a long time, she could barely talk about those years at all. When she did agree to do so, before a ... Also topping the charts, especially among young women who had just begun to read for pleasure, was urban lit, about surviving gritty life in the ghetto. "You pick them up," one reader told me, "and you're hooked by Page 6." When people talked about ... America honors the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, with a federal holiday on Monday, January 21 ... We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be ... Joseph leads a tortuous life. He toured England to promote his album - became "a superstar, a legend, in his own time." the night he performed at the Lyceum Theatre, he moved "a piece of the ghetto in (to) the middle of a posh uptown neighbourhood ... Irena Sendler, it said, helped rescue 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust more than 60 years ago. "We ... They called their play "Life in a Jar" and performed it well past high school graduation. The count is up to about 230 ... With hopes of a better life, the number of immigrants to the United States rose 16 percent from 2001 to 2006. At the same ... We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one." -- King, Aug. 28, 1963 Jewish life has returned from self-imposed ghetto existence into the mainstream of society," said Knobloch, who has served as the council's president since 2006. "In principle, I see a really solid future for Jewish life here," she said The Pianist is an inspiring and very moving film about the true life story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a brilliant Polish ... Szpilman and his family in Warsaw at the outbreak of the war and chronicles the story of his survival in the Warsaw ghetto in ...
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