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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Jack DeJohnette
With Pilgrimage , the late Michael Brecker leaves us with a strong reminder of why many musicians said that one of their hardest tasks was to follow a Brecker solo. Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau, Pat Matheny, John Patitucci and Jack DeJohnette all rise ... With a little bit of help from his jazz friends, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Jack DeJohnette , Hornsby cut a respectable jazz album. Similarly, Nigel Kennedy , the phenomenal classical violinist, recorded an album with an all-star jazz lineup ... You can draw comparisons to Jack DeJohnette and Tony Williams, but Shoals is coming from an entirely different place. He is as versatile as he is talented, having played in pop, blues and bluegrass bands, touring extensively over the past summer with ... The disc features a number of Brecker's longtime collaborators — including Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette and others — who continue to celebrate his life and music in the months following his death. Brecker arrived on the New York ... At that point, teaming with occasional former colleagues drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Gary Peacock, Jarrett began to address a repertoire of pop standards and jazz classics in his determinedly personal manner. Now it celebrates its Silver ... Davis used two dozen players through these sessions, with such heavyweights as sax player Dave Liebman, piano players Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock, drummer Jack DeJohnette and guitarist John McLaughlin adding their talents to the mix. The music is ... And then there was tape-manipulating producer Teo Macero, whose work here borders on composition, and a crew of brilliant, fearless musicians including Jack DeJohnette, Badal Roy, John McLaughlin, David Liebman, Carlos Garnett, James Mtume, Collin ... Alexander Picini, Robert Reder, Tyler Schmidt, Tyler Smith, Jack Spirou, Robert Stevenson, Thomas Stoecker, Peter Tate ... Andrea Cardenas, June Castro, James Cerza, Nicholas Chanakhen, Karsyn Clark, Zoie Davis, Michael DeJesus, Natalee DeJohnette ... ... as an innovative saxophonist, composer, producer and educator. He has recorded more than 15 albums as a leader and enjoyed important artistic associations with some the music’s most innovative musicians, including Andrew Hill, Jack DeJohnette ... Osby, who got his start playing with Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie and Jack DeJohnette, has built a sizable catalog of recordings as a bandleader over the past two decades. A Blue Note artist, he’s mindful of tradition while reminding listeners ...
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