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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Ian Dury
Looking over the current state of affairs, there are not many reasons to be cheerful (nod to the late-1970s song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads). The media economy has been in recession, according to TNS Media Intelligence, for most if not all of ... Eric Goulden was among the original 1976-'78 Stiff Records posse (Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, the Damned) aiming to revitalize rock, though his charmingly ramshackle punk-pop was perhaps too British for American ears. Amy Rigby is a pop princess with ... Among Stiff Records’ gifted Class of ’77, Wreckless Eric wasn’t the one most likely to succeed (Elvis Costello), the class clown (Ian Dury) or the savvy senior (Nick Lowe). He was the scruffy, quirky kid who was mates with them all, although ... LB-- Ian Blair, Mishawaka Marian; John Dury, Indianapolis Chatard; Trevor Grywatch, Culver Military; Jamie Hebenstreit, Indianapolis Brebeuf; Conrad Schubert, Glenn; Tyler Weddington, Culver Military; Dustin White, South Bend St. Joseph's; Corey ... Ian Dury and the Blockheads, "The Best of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"; Various, "Nervous Tension: The EMI Post Punk Collection." Hip-hop/R&B: Seal, "System"; Shaggy, "Intoxication"; Aretha Franklin, "Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the ... Along with Nick Lowe, Ian Dury, and Wreckless Eric, Costello participated in the Stiffs Live package tour in the fall. At the end of the year, Jake Riviera split from Stiff Records to form Radar Records, taking Costello and Lowe with him. Costello's ... Erika Rose is excellent as Petruchio's servant Curtis, delivering the largely non-verbal role with exceptional physical humor, and Louis Butelli, as Petruchio's manservant, manages to evoke both Tom Waits and Ian Dury in his fun sidekick. Among ... ... Bishop Chatard: Dan Kleinschmidt 1-20, John Dury 1-17, Dietrick 1-68. Northwest: none. ... Turner 2-49, Alex Sanders 1-26. Perry Meridian: Ian Jackson 7-99, Ferguson 4-69, Miller 3-62, Danny Richards 1-10, Curtis ... What makes them different is a keen worship of Squeeze and the Blockheads (Ian Dury's son Baxter has produced their early material) and the cheeky humour in ragged tales of brushes with the law, such as Missing in Action and Education Pt 2. The ... In a set of songs that are funny, clever, warm and memorable, Jamie T has summoned up the spirit of figures as diverse as Ian Dury, John Betjeman, Quentin Crisp, the Kinks and Madness and yet made a record that is utterly modern and ...
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