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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Hank Williams
Hank Williams Jr. once recorded a hit song called “Family Tradition” and there’s little argument that this time of year is filled with more traditions than any other holiday season. Here, for your dining and dancing enjoyment are some Christmas ... ... it's fitting that a play that used music to help tell its story-as opposed to being a straight-on musical, with dancing and characters erupting into songs-proved to be the most flat-out entertaining: the Laguna Playhouse's homage to Hank Williams Sr ... Ricky Fitzgerald is a little kid with a big resume. Known throughout the area as "Hank Williams IV," the 9-year-old regular on the local country music scene is a wise-beyond-his-years performer who belts out the hits of the beloved "Hillbilly Shake ... The Marquee Theatre is your go-to place for full-tilt rock-and-roll insanity this weekend with a killer three-band bill: Nashville Pussy, Hank Williams III - country royalty though he may well be - and the Reverend Horton Heat. Your ears may never ... From new Bosses in the Bronx to Ricky Williams ' brief comeback, USA TODAY looks at this year's names in the news: Hank & Hal Steinbrenner: New bosses not the same as the old "Boss." Peyton Manning : A future Hall of Fame quarterback and pitchman ... In the library, Harvey played the trademark Lead Belly cut “(Goodnight) Irene,” a longing, bluesy folk number that hints as to where artists such as Hank Williams found their inspiration. When Ledbetter was released from prison, the Lomaxes took ... I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Hank Williams Sr. -- He had bigger hits, but Williams's elemental ode to sadness has been covered by dozens of artists and taken to heart by millions of fans. 7. Faded Love, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys -- If the twin ... The calendar had barely turned to 2007 when a spray of bullets hit the stretch limousine carrying Darrent Williams. The Denver ... The Yankees had the left side of the infield with Clete Boyer and Phil Rizzuto, and Hank Bauer in left field. Joe Nuxhall ... Hank Bauer, 84; Rod Beck, 38; Clete Boyer, 70; Lew Burdette, 80; Tommy Byrne, 87; Mike Coolbaugh, 35; Shag Crawford, 90 ... Darrent Williams, 24; Bill Willis, 86; Ernie Wright, 67. ___ Golf Gay Brewer, 75; Maureen Esther Orcutt, 99; Don Massengale, 69 ... And what of Hank Williams? "In truth, Hank Williams was ground-breaking because he had this special sound. We all used to buy the Fender Stratocaster and the Binson echo chamber, but no-one could get the sound right. "I actually went to see him a ...
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