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: Left Foot, Right Foot
The Blazers never got the lead under 10 again until Outlaw's dunk with 41.9 seconds left. NOTES: Jameer Nelson sat out the game after aggravating the tendon in his right foot that has been giving him problems the entire season ... The Blazers made 9-of ... It was difficult to know which way he was going to go because of his legs and because he was as comfortable on his left foot as his right, so he could cut inside or go down the line and he had a ferocious shot too. "Garrincha would have been a real ... Johnson cuts inside from the right, shifts the ball onto his left foot and unleashes a shot which spoons off Bramble and away for a corner. The corner is PISH. I'm going to stop mentioning corners altogether soon. WHY CAN'T ANYONE TAKE A DECENT CORNER Knocked off his skates by the Lightning's Paul Ranger while shooting, Crosby slammed in the rear boards with his left leg up, causing his right foot to bend awkwardly as his right leg absorbed the full impact of the blow. Ranger was called for ... But that drop was enough to convince him to change his shooting style, which now has him lining up with his right foot in front of his left foot instead of side-by-side. "I was just practicing and trying to find something to make me feel more ... Henrik Zetterberg has yet to reach the same star status Sergei Fedorov, left, had ... Ottawa will miss him for the next five weeks while his separated right shoulder heals ... Despite his 5-foot-11-inch, 195-pound frame, Zetterberg is a relentless, defensive ... Left with Kenneth Darby as their only other healthy tailback under contract. ... play next season as he rehabs from a devastating torn patellar tendon in his right ... might have been the untimely injury of linebacker Cato June, who broke his foot ... Crosby slammed into the end boards, jamming his right foot with 12:23 left in the first period. Crosby had his injured right ankle examined Saturday, but a prognosis will not be known until next week. He will undergo a more thorough examination once ... Kozlov started the run with a power-play goal at 6:49 of the first period, deflecting Mike Green 's shot from the right point. Sixty-six seconds later, John Erskine fired a 65-foot slap shot from deep on the left side past the screened ... Former Vietnam POW has plenty of fight left ... He and McCain have remained close since they first shared that 9-foot-by-15-foot ... And he said his friend was right. "He jammed legislation through up there that every ...
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