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: Gothic Horror
Tim Burton: Hollywood’s undisputed champion of gothic horror. Sweeney Todd: a psycho barber and famous purveyor of dodgy pies. Chaps, what took you so long? It was screamingly obvious what a gorgeous couple you would make when the curtain lifted on ... ... thick black-eyeliner. Mr Blackwell said: "Exploding beehives above, tacky polka-dots below, she’s part 50’s carhop horror ... She is known for her quirky gothic style, but clearly not everybody is a fan. Mr Blackwell’s opinion is that she is "Stuck ... ... roll movie star, Johnny Depp, flew into London to wow the crowds at last night's premiere of Tim Burton's latest Gothic ... In 2001 he was in Albert Hughes's Jack the Ripper horror From Hell. Sweeney Todd has already notched up four Golden Globe ... Psychobillies dress - for want of a better word - more darkly than classic and neo-classic rockabillies, emphasising their punkish and horror genre origins with funereal palette choices and gothic twists. On psychobillies' list of music favourites are ... NPR.org , January 10, 2008 · A young mom and her family move into a dark, brooding country estate and act out a horror-movie ... Labyrinth ) del Toro and directed by newcomer Juan Antonio Bayona, the picture is a creepily effective exercise in gothic ... Silhouetted against a Gothic orphanage, a 7-year-old girl faces a tree as her friends stealthily advance. Something about ... And we're immediately attuned to the ominous nuances that distinguish this elegant Spanish horror movie, produced by ... Burton, 49, grew up in California watching old Hammer horror films on Saturday afternoon television, so the over-the-top, Grand Guignol aspect of the Sweeney Todd story had particular appeal to his dark, Gothic imagination. "I've seen productions in ... ... Antonio Bayona, a protégé of producer Guillermo del Toro, proves well-versed in del Toro's Spain-set horror successes "The Devil's Backbone" and "Pan's Labyrinth." The del Toro touch spans every orifice of "The Orphanage," from the elegantly gothic ... Gothic drama that appeals Alex Eyre 10/ 1/2008 IN the architecturally impressive surroundings of south Deansgate, Negresco's ... dramatic change from the spit and sawdust set-up they replaced. It's not the first time Deansgate has seen a horror show, but ... It's McEwan's Gothic side — his weakness for building borderline-vicarish moral introspection around a moment of flamboyant horror or black comedy — that put Andrew Birkin's adaptation of The Cement Garden (1994, evil twins run amok), Paul ...
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