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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Louis Armstrong
As an adult, he produced and performed on thousands of recordings with artists who became legends — Bessie Smith, Fats Waller, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong and more — but he took credit for composing a long list of jazz standards. "Gulf ... Drummer with Louis Armstrong. April 1. Bob Clark, 67. Film director known for holiday classic "A Christmas Story." April 4. Edward Mallory, 76. Portrayed angst-ridden Dr. Bill Horton on soap opera "Days of Our Lives." April 4. Stan Daniels, 72. Emmy ... 147,000 to help fund construction of a visitor’s center at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona. The museum, operated by Queens College, is the last home of the legendary musician and goodwill ambassador. Archives would also be housed there. ... Gwen was born and raised in New Orleans and counts Louis Armstrong among her closest friends. She is a graduate of Newcomb College at Tulane University and double majored in History and Soviet Studies. Gwen was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow in Eastern ... It's high time John Ford took his rightful place in the popular consciousness - next to F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Jasper Johns and Louis Armstrong - among the greatest American artists of the past century. The release of Ford at Fox , a ... Members of the Hawai'i football team depart their charter flight after arriving at Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, La., following a 7 1/2-hour journey from Honolulu. Well rested and well fed, quarterback Colt Brennan yesterday ... Adopted Belfast girl Katie Melua has inventively teamed up with the late Eva Cassidy to do a cover of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World and as a charity single (it's for the Red Cross) exclusive to Tesco - and currently No 1 - it ... Framed posters from the 1960s of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong line up over a sofa. The master bedroom, however, speaks only French, as fluently as Lehmann. "It's a carbon copy of the bedroom we had in Paris," she says of the room ... I don't recall grumblings about it; just grumblings in general during those post war years. (I like to brag about being backyard neighbor to Louis Armstrong in the 1940's - unfortunately, it took two decades for me to realize the black man in ... Should Elvis Presley (66) be ranked ahead of Louis Armstrong (79)? And why didn't Bob Dylan make the list? Thomas Edison, at No. 9, certainly would rank as America's top scientific and technical genius. But was Walt Disney (26) more influential ...
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