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.S. Subbulakshmi
"I would die for an MS Blue," says V.R. Devika, who describes herself as a cultural activist. She is referring to the colour made famous by the legendary vocalist M.S. Subbulakshmi. She, like many others in her circle, wouldn't be seen dead in the ... Veena player E Gayathri and mandolin maestro Srinivas had their 'arangetram' (debut) there as child artistes. This musical festival is continues even now. Celebrated Carnatic musicians have performed here. The nightingale of music M S Subbulakshmi ... Her rendition of ‘Maithriyem Bhajatha’ in memory of the icon of music, the nightingale of India, M S Subbulakshmi, lifted the rasikas to sublime heights. Padma Sankar on the violin captivated the audience with her style. Vinod Seetharaman ... She is just 16. But has come up with several devotional albums and performed in various stages across the country. S J Jananiy, a student of Sacred Heart Matriculation School, is a great admirer of veteran vocalist M S Subbulakshmi. She is aspiring ... The nightingale of India, M S Subbulakshmi, spotted this stalwart at Vaidyanatha Iyer’s house and was attracted to his style of playing. He started accompanying her thereafter. Their partnership lasted a phenomenal 50 years. ... ... the first talkies of the 30s in Black and White with many later versions, showcases not only the devotion of Meera, an epic figure in our spiritual universe, but projects also the pre-eminent qualities of the young M S Subbulakshmi ... V Sriram, music historian and contributing editor of Sruti presented an audio-visual presentation on veteran singer M S Subbulakshmi. K V Ramanathan, Editor-in-chief, Sruti, narrated on the journey of the magazine since it was published ... M S Subbulakshmi's immortal celluloid classic, Meera, is now available in dance form. The movie, with soul-stirring songs such as Kaatrinilae Varum Geetham , Nandabala and Giridhara Gopala , has been reworked into dance by noted danseuse Shobana ... The Chief Justice presented the Sangita Kalanidhi M S Subbulakshmi Award to vocalist Madurai T N Seshagopalan, who will chair this year's conference. Accepting the award, Sesha-gopalan stressed the importance of vocal music for a vainika ... He, along with M.S. Subbulakshmi and Pandit Ravi Shankar, belonged to the famous trio of classical musicians to be bestowed with the highest civilian honour of the country: Bharat Ratna. Interestingly, the origin of ...
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