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: Lullabies To Paralyze
Queens of the Stone Age, “Era Vulgaris” — More abrasive and indutrial-sounding than 2005’s “Lullabies to Paralyze” but every bit as good, “Era Vulgaris” is all about the guitar riff — the odder and scratchier ... There's a song on Lullabies to Paralyze where QOTSA's Homme screams: "I hate rock 'n' roll!" Yeah, I don't much feel like looking for the title, either. Self-medication Maybe it was Eddie's influence, but on Women & Children First , two songs have both ... Mournful rocker "Into the Hollow" would have been at home on the somber Lullabies to Paralyze , while the soulful come-on "Make It Wit Chu" from Desert Sessions Vol. 9&10 gets a re-recording that actually improves on Homme's smooth vocal delivery ... It follows up 2005's equally stellar "Lullabies to Paralyze" and 2002's above comparison "Songs For the Deaf." Since its formation, Queens has been a who's who guide to rock superstars with front man, Josh Homme, the only constant. Most of Queens ... But be sure to bring earplugs - there's a reason Homme and friends have titled previous albums Lullabies to Paralyze and Songs for the Deaf. Monday, Oct. 29 at Nokia Theatre, 777 Chick Hearn Court, ticketmaster.com. Eagles and Dixie Chicks: The debut of ... Then came a falling out between Homme and Oliveri that got the wildman bassist and screamer booted from the band, to the dismay of many a Queens fan, and so Queens lost a little critical and commercial momentum with "Lullabies to Paralyze." Homme ... It’s either fluke or a reassuring testament to the universal morality of rock’n’roll. But either way, it’s terribly bloody sad. The Atlantic Ocean, in rock-demographic terms, couldn’t be wider right now. Not so much a tale of two cities ... ... year) with the release of their new album Era Vulgaris It was their Ok Computer, Nevermind, Sgt Peppers moment, if you like ? and it leaves even big-selling outstanding predecessors, such as Songs For The Deaf and Lullabies to Paralyze, in ... Concentrating on tracks from new album Era Vulgaris and the previous Lullabies to Paralyze, it does feel as though they've settled into a groove recently, not that that's so much a problem when the guttural guitars and rumbling bass provide hypnotic ... The latest album – the Queens’ fourth studio album and the follow-up to 2005’s platinum selling Lullabies to Paralyze – sees the band return to their deepest, darkest roots combining multi-layered industrial power guitars with intense ...
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