The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
|
01/23/2008 09:57 AM
|
|
Alicia Keys
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/20/2008 09:52 PM
|
|
Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/16/2008 08:53 PM
|
|
Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/15/2008 08:45 PM
|
|
Tom Baxter - Skybound
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/14/2008 04:54 PM
|
|
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/13/2008 03:16 PM
|
|
Chrisette Michele
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/12/2008 02:31 PM
|
|
Sara Bareilles
|
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, [...]
|
|
01/11/2008 02:27 PM
|
|
Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
|
“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 [...]
|
|
01/07/2008 04:26 PM
|
|
Kanye vs Beyonce
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/07/2008 01:42 PM
|
|
Fogerty’s Creative Revival
|
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 [...]
|
|
|
Luciana Souza
Ocanana," from 1996, is a relaxed fusion of styles with a powerful choral part, sung by Brazilian-born chanteuse Luciana Souza and the exacting ASO Chorus. It's a formative work for the composer, both viscerally thrilling and lumpy in parts. In ... All but two of the 10 tunes are hers, with vocalists Tina Turner, Corinne Bailey Rae, Joni, Luciana Souza and Norah Jones (as a rule, I'm no Norah fan, either) adding to the twilight mood, along with Wayne Shorter's mystery saxophone. With Herbie at ... Kronos Quartet; vocalists Luciana Souza and Dawn Upshaw; the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Spano (Deutsche Grammophon) Golijov's impassioned music pulls Bach cantatas, klezmer laments, gypsy music, Brazilian percussion and droning ... For its latest project, the combo has teamed up with bossa nova chanteuse Luciana Souza to explore the charms of the Latin American masters, including Brazilian pioneers Hermeto Pascoal and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Hear the hot six-strings on Thursday ... Rae's take on the title track is especially accessible without losing any of Mitchell's sense of quiet despair. (Leonard Cohen and Luciana Souza also make appearances, and they're wonderful, though their inclusion probably didn't add much to the ... The Joni Letters" by jazz great Herbie Hancock, an exploration of the songs of Joni Mitchell (who is Klein's ex-wife); and "The New Bossa Nova" by Brazilian-born singer and composer Luciana Souza (his new wife). Starbucks has just released Joni ... Luciana Souza: Brazilian-American singer Luciana Souza has Bossa Nova in her blood, born into a family of composers in Sao Paulo. The music has almost from its beginnings been a North/South American hybrid, but with her latest CD, "The New Bossa Nova ... Leonard Cohen, Norah Jones, Joni Mitchell, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza & Tina Turner, featured artists; Herbie Hancock & Larry Klein, producers; Helik Hadar, engineer/mixer; Bernie Grundman, mastering engineer [Verve] “Graduation” - Kanye ... 3-ranked Midland College men's basketball team suffered its first loss of the season on Monday at always-tough South Plains College. The No. 16-ranked Texans shot 53 percent from the floor and Luciana de Souza scored 23 points as South Plains rolled ... Call 610-933-4043. World beat Argentine tango specialist Pablo Ziegler plays at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $34 and $44. Call 215-893-1999. . . . Brazilian jazz singer Luciana Souza ...
|
