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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M.I.A.
MIA is set to host a documentary about child rights in Liberia. In 4Real Liberia , the rapper travels to post- war Liberia to see how child rights advocate Kimmie Weeks founder of Youth Action International is attempting to help people rebuild their ... M.I.A., Jason Isbell, the White Stripes, Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, Bruce Springsteen, the Arcade Fire and Jay-Z. Maybe it's that the flow -- or Flood -- of music gets deeper and wider all the time. Yet it's hard to make a cultural impact when there's so ... M.I.A. took a huge leap forward on her second album, combining hip-hop, club music and occasional rock references with a dizzying variety of other styles from around the world. The sound evokes a lively street corner in a major international city ... M.I.A. (Nov. 20, First Ave) -- Extra marks for most improved performer and most fearless. The British-Sri Lankan rapper matched her music's energy by literally bouncing around the club, from the staircase by the stage to the top of a speaker tower to ... M.I.A. -- Kala: This album has an effect similar to a triple-shot Americano after a day of staring at spreadsheets. It delivers a swift kick in the pants and makes you feel suddenly, strangely liberated and defiant. The beats are big and bossy, while ... M.I.A.: “Paper Planes” “Paper Planes” is a Walt Disney-on-acid trip through a day in the life of a drug runner, with an “It’s a Small World”-esque sing-song chorus of children chanting about murder and taking your money. MATT MAZUR ... M.I.A., Kala: The British/Sri Lankan rapper and singer topped her own excellent debut disc with this beautiful and frightening album of songs about making do in places that go without. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver: James Murphy's latest is packed ... 10. “Kala,” M.I.A.: The British born, Sri-Lankan raised rapper got even more eclectic — if that’s even possible — with “Kala,” a mish-mash of Indian beats, African rhythms, electronic synths and fierce rapping. It’s not as hypnotic as ... M.I.A., "Paper Planes" (from "Kala") -- One of the most euphoric singles of the year features a chorus made up of gun shots and emptying cash registers. Go figure. 9. Arcade Fire, "Intervention" (from "Neon Bible") -- Both moving and deeply unsettling ... M.I.A., Kala: Boiling over with revolutionary political rage, bizarre rhyme schemes and a dizzying array of sounds pirated from clubs and cultures the world over, Sri Lankan born M.I.A. has made one of the most ambitious and infectious albums of the ...
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