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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Joao Gilberto
Especially key were Joao Gilberto and Chet Baker, though Gonzalez plays neither bossa nova nor jazz. Gonzalez's notably remote debut, "Veneer," appeared in Sweden in 2003. It came out here three years later. A similarly lean and hungry followup, "In ... ... considering the contentious campaigns that preceded his election as FIFA president in 1998, succeeding the Brazilian Joao ... Dunga's use of three holding midfielders - Gilberto Silva, Josue and Mineiro - did not fit the image of samba soccer. Dunga ... And, if one is to believe the calendar, he played bossa nova when it was still an infant, not a craze credited to Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, and Antonio Carlos Jobim when the three released Getz/Gilberto in 1963. Babasin played on and contributed a ... The [new musicians] have heard most everything that has been important for me in the '60s: João Gilberto, Jorge Ben, Motown, Beatles, Hendrix, jazz," Veloso said. "The fact that they are young is great also because things like Nirvana or Radiohead ... Walking into Heller Theatre Friday night, I was greeted by the mellow crooning of Joao Gilberto to Stan Getz’s gentle sax playing over the sound system. It wasn’t just coincidence that playwright Steven Deitz made one of their unforgettable bossa ... The Brazilian singer and songwriter will perform a set showcasing 50 years of Brazilian popular music, performing her own music as well as selections from compatriots Gilberto Gil, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Djavan, and Joao Bosco. Berklee students ... At first his compositions drew on the bossa novas of Joao Gilberto, but he moved to create his own style. Together with Giberto Gil, his sister Maria Bethânia, and a number of poets and intellectuals, he founded a genre-bending movement called ... And while moderate forays into finger-style guitar have erroneously earned associations with Joao Gilberto, his leanings are more toward a whispering Sufjan Stevens, or a melancholic, acoustic Beck. What first hit fans about the sparse beauty of his ... A Swede of Argentine descent, Gonzalez recalls South Americans such as João Gilberto and Caetano Veloso and Brits like Nick Drake and John Martyn. However, his second album doesn't sound like an echo of the past: its exploration of the nature of ... I also listen to a lot of Brazilian music, like Joao Gilberto. A lot of M.I.A., lately. It's all over the place, because I don't care what bin it would be in at the record store, if they still had record stores. It sounds like, based on your interests ...
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