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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Groucho Marx
Those shows came in the era when networks realized the value of doing a proper interview with the guests, whether it was Katharine Hepburn or Groucho Marx," says Cavett. "There are interesting people in show business today, but the talk shows move ... Not Karl. Groucho. “Now the melancholy days have come,” Groucho Marx wrote to pal and fellow comic Fred Allen on Dec. 23, 1953. “The department stores call it Christmas. Other than for children and elderly shut-ins, the thing has developed to ... SAN DIEGO -- A man wearing an Afro wig and Groucho Marx-type glasses robbed and carjacked a worker at the San Diego Zoo, police said. It happened Thursday evening around 6:30 p.m., after the zoo had closed. According to authorities, a security guard ... Groucho Marx (1890 -- 1977) and the Marx Brothers "You've got beauty, style, money. You've got money, haven't you? If not we'll stop right now." "Either he's dead or my watch has stopped." The Marx Brothers were the comedic equivalent of a tornado ... Perlut seems more of an imitator of Groucho Marx. The institute's Web site says Mr. Perlut earned a doctorate in "nuclear mustacheology." He sometimes claims to be a shepherd and to have started growing his mustache when he was ... LISTENING to Time magazine’s interview with its Person of the Year, Russian President Vladimir Putin, reminds me, in a way, of the old Groucho Marx quip that he wouldn’t want to be in any club that would have him as a member. Putin was responding ... Here’s a grand romp, imagining the Marx Brothers rampaging through Chekhovian Russia in a loving pastiche by Dick Vosburgh and Frank Lazarus. Lazarus also plays the Chico figure, the piano-playing know-it-all Italian foil to the Groucho clone Serge ... As you'll see, their answers ran the gamut from Moses to Mozart to Groucho Marx. John Ratzenberger , "Cheers" actor: Benjamin Franklin. He was the ultimate inventor. Benjamin Franklin not only (discovered) the principles of electricity with the famous ... ... and police found the stolen security vehicle a few hours later abandoned at Richmond and Upas streets. The man is described as a Hispanic or white man in his early 20s, 5-feet- 9, weighing around 170 pounds. He wore a disguise, including Groucho Marx ... A friend of a friend, after realizing who I was (I was wearing a pair of Groucho Marx glasses and a mustache), excitedly told me she’d read my work. “More than once,” I asked. “Seriously?” She had said she moved here to write and was excited ...
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