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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Jefferson Starship
We Built This City" by Jefferson Starship. Now that's a horrendous song. Personally, I would have voted for either "Cleopatra's Cat" by the Spin Doctors, "Spin the Black Circle" by Pearl Jam or "Mother" by The Police. If there's a hell, all three of ... Jefferson Starship, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding Company are among the summer's most publicized reunion artists. They will perform in Monterey, Calif., as part of a 40th anniversary tribute to the 1967 Summer of Love ... Many folks will know Craig Chaquico from his days with Jefferson Starship and when the band was called just Starship. He was the guitar player and songwriter with the group that scored several Top 10 hits. These days, he's mellowed out a bit, but hasn ... Spin-off bands, Jefferson Starship, and later Starship, plus several solo albums took her career into the'70s and '80s. But she quit singing in the '90s. And nowadays, the woman who once went to a White House party hoping to spike President Richard ... Quicksilver albums, he went on to play bass and keyboards and sing with the Jefferson Airplane and the Jefferson Starship. While with the Starship, he co-wrote "Jane," a monster hit for the Mickey Thomas version of the band. Jokingly, he admits that he ... But it won’t carry the thrill of seeing stars the likes of Rita Moreno, Ken Kesey, the entire Jefferson Starship band and Jody Watley walk through the door. Mitchell, 25-year Backstage employee Kathy Freedman and University of Oregon dance professor ... The band later signed to EMI Records, releasing the album Sold Out, and has performed with such groups as Van Halen, The Doobie Brothers, Rush, Jefferson Starship, Blondie, the Cars and others. The Fools will performs songs from its latest CD, "10 ... Jefferson Starship? House of Pain? Vanilla Ice? Nelly? Josie and the Pussycats? How couldn't you blame it on the music? That, however, is not quite what I mean. By tuning into music and tuning out, well, Philadelphia, I lost sight -- and sound, and ... Performer: Jefferson Starship Album: "Nuclear Furniture" Year: 1984 Defining Line: "Got U.S. boys on foreign soil/Spillin' their blood to keep the peace/Cities will vanish in turmoil/While the sheiks lay sleepin' on the beach." Why: By this point Jefferson ... While I can’t knowingly condone anything that Jefferson Starship ever added to the world of music; during the psychedelic rock era of the 1960’s, Jefferson Airplane, led by Grace Slick, epitomized its genre. Besides contributing lyrically intense ...
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