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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Labyrinth
The big noise from Spain comes from "The Orphanage," a huge hit on its home turf presented by Guillermo del Toro, who explored parallel worlds and childhood traumas in "Pan's Labyrinth" to extravagantly imaginative results. The man del Toro is ... There's no such thing as bad publicity, or so they say, but at some point Bayona and his movie have to stand or fall on their own, and in fact "The Orphanage" is nothing like "Pan's Labyrinth" or any other of del Toro's adventurous fantasy pictures ... From the film "Pan's Labyrinth" "An unfinished task is best forgotten." -- Mother Marie to Sister Blanche in the Lyric Opera's production of "Dialogues of the Carmelites" "For their scenario to be true, you've got to believe that pilgrims went down to ... He'd spent 10 years at film school in Barcelona, four as a student and six as a teacher, and the whole time he'd kept in touch with Guillermo del Toro, the acclaimed director of last year's Oscar-contending "Pan's Labyrinth." He'd met del Toro at age ... The Orphanage" was produced by Mexican auteur Guillermo del Toro ("Pan's Labyrinth"), and one feels his guidance in the pacing of the story and in its deft suspense. This is one spook-house movie that is genuinely spooky. Its greatest asset, however ... December 28, 2007 -- I am not easily frightened by movies, but "The Orphanage," a superb haunted-house story from Spain, thoroughly got to me both times I saw it. Guillermo del Toro - who directed my favorite film of 2006, "Pan's Labyrinth ... SNOWMASS VILLAGE — How do you quiet your own, noisy mind? For some, it’s gardening, or perhaps long drives on open roads. Tae Bo, anyone? For Linda Rutland, 67, the answer is labyrinths. And she’s more than willing to tell you about it. “It ... ... they took place during civil strife in Ireland in the 1920s (The Wind That Shakes the Barley), the communist tyranny in East Germany (The Lives of Others) and Franco's final conquest of the remnants of Spain's left-wing Popular Front (Pan's Labyrinth ... Once a month, Elaine Jenkins lugs a suitcase containing 140 pounds of canvas labyrinth and carefully lays it out in the gymnasium at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The public is then welcome to walk the labyrinth and discover what has intrigued people ... ... del Toro serves as one of the film's producers and Bayona, working from a script by Sergio Sanchez, seems to be aiming for the same mix of the real and the supernatural that del Toro himself achieved last year with his excellent "Pan's Labyrinth." It ...
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