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: Jukebox
Theater critic Elysa Gardner of USA Today called the show a cut above many of the "jukebox musicals" that string songs together without plot or story. Yeomans likes to think that this show will help many people come to know Cash for the first time. ... On her new album of cover songs, “Jukebox," Marshall boldly plays on their differences by leading off with a contemplative and soulful version of that great karaoke nightmare, “New York, New York." But coming from Marshall, who records under the ... Long before Chanel declared an interest in her, the denim-clad elders of the music press fell hard for the woman known to her divorced, dysfunctional parents as Chan Marshall – and you can see why. Her drink problem is apparently behind her, as is ... The point of a jukebox isn’t simply to hear a song you love when you’re out in a bar or a café: it is to make everyone else in the place listen to the damn thing, too – whether they want to or not. That’s also the point of Jukebox , the new ... Audio clips of Supersuckers and Eddie Spaghetti's solo albums can be heard through the online jukebox by clicking here . Defiantly independent, Supersuckers have successfully been releasing music through their own label, Mid-Fi Recordings, since 2002 ... They want to buy a dart board and maybe even take the Red Sovine CD off the jukebox. The post is worth saving, they say. “We need to get people out of the mindset that a VFW is a place where old men go to sit and drink,” said Teresa Howard ... Mamma Mia!'': ABBA's jukebox musical comes to the screen with Allentown's Amanda Seyfried as a young bride-to-be who teams with her dancing-queen mother (Meryl Streep) to solve the mystery of her paternity. The potential daddies include Colin Firth ... In fact, Marshall's eighth disc Jukebox is her second covers album. Like its aptly titled 2000 predecessor The Covers Album, it finds her reworking classics and personal faves. Unlike that disc, however, Jukebox favours jazz, blues, country and soul ... Instead, the steroid era calls up another Bland selection on the jukebox: "I Pity the Fool." Just stop for a moment, though, and take it past all the sordid episodes that built Barry Bonds' castle. Assume that he juiced up like a madman, that Greg ... Alex Ross pointed me to two amazing sites, www.schoenberg.at, an exquisite shrine to the composer – I love the idea of his work being available on a web “jukebox” – and keepingscore.org, the site of the San Francisco Symphony. This gives web ...
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