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: God's Delusion
... holy fool who hid out on the made-up island of San Lorenzo, preaching the religion of human happiness through self-delusion ... a group of people whose lives are entangled with each other's "for no very logical reasons," and who do "God's Will without ... But it takes total self-delusion to advocate the former while self-lovingly convincing yourself that you're a beacon of the latter. But that self-delusion is really the overarching principle of our establishment's foreign policy discussions. UPDATE ... They are taught to be respectful of "people" because they are "people," deserving of God's love, not to be mean or hateful ... This kind of delusion is dangerous. If history has told us anything, it is to question those who seek to find scapegoats for ... The lesson of the McCain campaign is that one should never underestimate America's capacity for self-delusion. Balls-deep in ... His real crime on immigration was saying things about Mexican illegals like, "These are God's children as well." From torture ... After watching the avalanche of infringements on our civil liberties since 9/11, I can only conclude that it is American citizens who have become a threat to “national security”. It is also apparent to me that what you or I think of as national ... ... White House spokesman said: “The violence needs to stop and the talks need to resume.” This is code for “regroup for later assault”. We all know violence is the only tool in the White House’s toolbox, despite our penchant for self-delusion. In reality, we either serve God's will or we are slaves of the unseen dark forces we have submitted to – forces that pull ... Now, even though much of what passes as magic can be chalked up to hypnotic suggestion, affirmation and outright delusion, we ... To master one's plot of land is the cornerstone of the American dream—the merest taste of God's dominion. And yet that pride in possession is founded on the delusion that ownership equals control. Hold that deed up to a dam burst and see if the ... I had mixed feelings when some friends of mine pointed out that Ralph Nader had mentioned me as an “independent military analyst” in his Sunday appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press. In responding to a question from Tim Russert about why he was ... Hats off to the Rev. Sam Walls in your letters to the editor of Feb. 19. He said it just the way it should be. If they don't want to learn our ways, such as learn English, honor our flag, live up to our constitution, then go back to where you come ...
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