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: Malaga
Made from Malaga Blanc, Shiraz and indigenous Pokdum, this easy-drinking pink from Siam Winery is perfect with the weekend Thai takeaway. Although crisp and dry, it has a delicate strawberry sweetness to it and is best served well-chilled. jonathan ... Guinea, who arrived on Wednesday, have spent the last two weeks training in Spain and beat Sudan 6-0 and 1-0 in two friendly matches in Malaga. ... Flights to Cape Town will be sold from £142 one-way, excluding tax. The new carrier plans to offer five return flights a week from Stansted to Cape Town. Additionally, it will offer services between Cape Town and Barcelona and Malaga. Briton Anthony Davidson failed to get any action with Super Aguri due to a series of setbacks. The struggling team had to fly out new parts after their car overheated on Tuesday but the plane bringing them was diverted to Malaga. They were then ... Sierra Nevada A week in Sierra Nevada costs from £539 per person in the four-star Hotel Kenia Nevada, including return flights from Heathrow, Gatwick or Manchester to Malaga, transfers and seven nights' half board accommodation. thomsonski.co.uk ... The struggling team had to fly out new parts after their car overheated on Tuesday but the plane bringing them was diverted to Malaga. They were then further held up by a motorway closure, arriving after the test had finished. (Editing by Sonia Oxley) In late August, Leonard French let agents from a regional drug task force into his Malaga home when they told him they were there "about the marijuana." According to the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, which represents French, he ... Of course, the captain is in charge overall but if they fly to Malaga, for example, you get to fly the plane back." Mr Gardner, who has just celebrated his 20th birthday and now regularly flies to the Continent and Africa, played down his achievement ... The team was well taken care of in Malaga and we expect the players to give their best in Ghana.” NFA Secretary-General, Bolaji Ojo-Oba, promised the nation would not lack support in Ghana. “We have been working hard for this competition in the ... Super Eagles skipper, Nwankwo Kanu has cautioned that it would be difficult winning the prized African Cup of Nations crown. He spoke yesterday at the International Airport in Lagos as the team jetted in from Malaga, Spain, after their training tour ...
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