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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Album: Juke Joint
You won't find these mouth-harp musicians at a neighborhood juke joint. While John C. Lincoln's Better Breathers support group does perform at hospital events and functions, they're not trying to land a gig or record a holiday CD. The goal is ... College kids act like college kids. Drugs: Juke-joint booze is served and enjoyed. Parents' advisory: A good family movie to take in with your teenage children. Too intense and probably too adult for 12-and-unders. More articles Copyright © 2007, ... The story -- not really a plot -- centers on Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis (Danny Glover), who hopes to save his struggling juke joint, The Honeydripper, by convincing a guitar-toting youngster (Gary Clark, Jr., in his film debut) to pose as a famous ... Juke-joint booze is served and enjoyed - and college students being college students, there is the hint of sexuality. Too intense and probably too adult for 12-and-unders. "I Am Legend" - Will Smith is terrific in this well wrought existential sci-fi ... ... directed and Oprah Winfrey produced this formulaic, history-based inspirational story about a Depression-era debate team from a Texas "Negro" college that achieves national fame while struggling against racism and the lure of the juke joint (Memphis ... In the opening sequences, Washington quickly illustrates the movie's social-moral dichotomies, as it cuts back and forth between a jumping juke joint and a volcanic church sermon. But "The Great Debaters" is a didactic movie with a major tutorial ... Juke-joint booze is served and enjoyed. Parents advisory: A good family movie to take in with your teenage children. Too intense and probably too adult for 12-and-unders. • NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS -- PG What it's about: The National Treasure ... Sumlin donated the awards, along with his Traditional Blues Album award from 2006, to the museum while in town to perform at Wolf’s Juke Joint Jam Sept. 1 at Waverly Waters. “Hubert walked in the door with a brown paper bag,” said Richard Ramsey ... Later, Dewey finds surprise success at a juke joint, finds surprise success at a recording session and finds surprise success with a protest song that speaks on behalf of little people. Speaking of the midget song – titled “Let Me Hold You ... Nate Parker plays a good-looking youth who sneaks out to a bayou juke joint (rocking to the sounds of Memphian Alvin 'Youngblood' Hart) when he's not hitting the books. Jurnee Smollett is the pretty first-ever female member of the team, who wins ...
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