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: Koto
This month, Yasuko's older sister, An Irie, published a book titled, "Kono Kanashimi no Imi o Shiru Koto ga Dekiru Nara" (I Wish I Could Figure Out What this Sadness Means). In the book, Irie, 50, traces her experiences from the grief she felt after ... Here are some albums to create a more intense atmosphere. * “Lullaby for the Moon: Japanese Music for Koto and Shakuhachi” — traditional string and flute music. * “CBS Masterworks: Dinner Classics: The Japanese Album” — very traditional, but ... These days, there is a good network of roads and highways that link Gua Musang to Koto Bharu, Cameron Highlands and other parts of the country. Residents like Abdul Wahab are happy to live in Gua Musang. “The community is very close-knit and ... Yet the group produces beautiful children, mingling chorales of gentle piano, nylon string swatches, and swaying koto with lite programming/processing. With Pocket Symphony , the pair's fourth proper full ... Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus are due Saturday at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park, with repeat visits through Dec. 16. If you go, say hello to Koto, the exotic fossa from Madagascar, who made his debut at the zoo earlier this month. Enjoy the ... The Holy Year liturgies were among the most controversial, and the book explains how the various liturgical dances and the use of instruments such as a Japanese koto, a horn made of an elephant tusk, and a conch shell were chosen to emphasize the ... ... won the state championship and all the girls were crying and hugging each other. She couldn't understand why there was no jubilation. She was looking for some interviews with the players. "You just don't understand," Alex Fuller said. "Try me," Koto ... SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The Rosamond Gifford Zoo has a new resident, one who was recently made popular by the children's movie "Madagascar". A Fossa (pronounced foosah) named Koto was brought to Syracuse from the Capital of Texas Zoo, near Austin. Fossas ... ... but I believe in the next generations as we inter-marry and as the world continues to become "flatter" – a genuine sense of awareness and appreciation will evolve and Asians (and other minorities) will be hired for their worth and value. Sachi Koto ... Live in '64 and '66 - Brubeck, one of the few "Icons" who's still alive and active, shows some envelope-pressing muscle in the 1966 Berlin concert where his improvisations take some startling chromatic leaps, especially in his original, "Koto Song ...
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