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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La Bouche
... clams, outrageously perfect cigalas (langoustines), and espardenyes (sea cucumbers) seared, not a second too long, a la ... and the gifted chef Michael Cimarusti, Providence announces its serious intentions with the very first amuse-bouche: say, a ... Best amuse-bouche: Le Piémontais's fried chicken wings. Offered gratis to all diners, these piping hot wings are crisp ... La Gaudriole's "Polymorph chocolate trio" wins for most artistically composed dessert featuring a flourless chocolate cake ... The three-course menu essentially provides the dessert course for free, judged against a la carte prices. But it can be an ... Dinner begin with a free nibble — an amuse bouche , the French call it. Ours was a dab of smoked trout, mild and not too smoky ... Potts, Jonathan Freeman as Cogsworth, Jamie Ross as Maurice, Meredith Inglesby as Babette, Mary Stout as Madame de la Grande Bouche, Aldrin Gonzalez as Lefou, and Trevor Braun and Marlon Sherman alternating in the role of Chip. Beauty and the Beast ... Newcomer Alina Ziak-Briones exudes the right cheerful grit as Belle, and Patricia Price-Yates gives a deliciously ludicrous turn as Madame de la Grande Bouche, an opera singer becoming a wardrobe. This "Beauty" has everything, it seems, but it lacks ... A chef's six-course tasting menu ($85) is available, although the dishes come from the a la carte menu. On two of three visits, we were offered an amuse bouche to begin the meal, with mixed results - on one occasion, a small mound of creamy truffled ... Sadly, the coffee ($1.75) was much too weak, but they're working with a good supplier (La Prima) and one hopes it will ... For example, not every restaurant needs to serve an amuse bouche , especially when they range so widely in quality. A puff ... From the moment I tasted the amuse-bouche – shrimp broth with orange peel – I was sold. The food restores faith. This was ... I drank a full-bodied, fat, rich Soave (Pieropan La Rocca, 2004), which I finished with a fantastic selection of cheese ... Think Fallout Boy playing Tetris at full volume against mid ‘90s club band La Bouche and you’re approaching “¡Viva La Cobra!” Though brave for a former Jersey rocker to boldly transition to the pantheons of NYC pop, Cobra Starship ... As I walked down the stairs into La Voile, the new French-Mediterranean brasserie on Newbury Street, I noticed I was close ... He brought out an amuse-bouche of salami and sausage and puff pastry with anchovies and tapenade, and we were in heaven. The ...
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