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: Lush Life
Literary fiction. "The Senator's Wife" by Sue Miller (in stores). "She doesn't write often, but when she does, it's always an event," Hensley says. Also: Russell Banks' "The Reserve" (Jan. 29). In March: "Lush Life" by Richard Price. In April ... ... Russian in school, in the late Stalinist period, but his generation (he was born in 1976) was able to attend "German schools" (gymnasiums) where they learned to read auf Deutsch --and were fed a diet of bizarre, revisionist history featuring lush ... Plant Life Absorb This By Valerie Easton ... generously, and no one would ever guess that this water-filtration system and nature habitat is anything more than a lush ... Travel through lush cedars and stands of hemlock and fir before you see views of Tolmie Peak, Paul Peak and Mount Rainier. This is an easy to moderate hike for snowshoers who want to enjoy the beauty of the park without working too hard. Participants ... Every once in a while, even the biggest partyer needs a break. You know, that Friday night when you look at your friends ... Contact nightlife columnist Jessica Bowman at adn.com/contact/jbowman or visit Play's Lush Life blog at play.adn.com/lushlife . ... Powis Castle is a picture-perfect medieval castle, set in the lush green countryside of Powys, mid-Wales. High on a rock above the terrace, the castle, originally built around 1200, began life as a fortress of the Welsh Princes of Powys and commands ... But that's all just the price of a life well-lived. He still lovingly tends his lush garden, plans trips far and wide, walks the neighborhood and corresponds with fellow travelers from exotic corners of the planet. And every morning, Sam Whipple takes ... An updated graphics engine brings to life new aircraft, naval ships and landscapes, showcasing them in lush, vivid detail. As with the original Pacific Storm, Allies offers something for everyone - armchair admirals can take command of massive fleets ... She is drawn to Todd; life is, after all, an Industrial Age hell, no sunshine, no pleasure. Even a monomaniacal serial killer ... Sondheim's music, superbly orchestrated and played, sounds marvelous as lush Bernard Herrmann-inspired underscoring (the ... I had always pictured Death Valley as hot and white, glaring to the point of blindness, unable to sustain life. I had ... Under a variety of trees, including lush stands of towering date palms, visitors find a little town with motel units, a ...
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