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: Mantis
The lineup includes a sweet German science-fiction fable called "Moonman," a dreamy insect-relationship tale dubbed "The Mantis Parable," a wonderfully goofy six-minute opera called "The Piano Lesson" and such rarely seen classic Oscar nominees as ... Imagine a praying mantis melded with a salamander and dropping nasty “babies” that resemble large, voracious crabs. Our 20-something questers take to the subway … the trains aren’t running but the tunnels will take them to Beth’s Upper West ... Reviewers now say it looks like a cross between Rosie O’Donnell and a giant praying mantis. God help Manhattan. I hope to see “Cloverfield” this weekend, but if any directors out there are shooting a giant monster movie in the near ... Perhaps it is time to get science back into the classroom or get our children outdoors with someone who can teach correct insect names. I refer to the outstanding photo of a praying mantis on the Jan. 12 Gallery page. The caption stated that it was a ... Imagine a praying mantis melded with a salamander and dropping nasty "babies" that resemble large, voracious crabs. Our twentysomething questers take to the subway -- the trains aren't running but the tunnels will take them to Beth's upper West Side ... But the main attraction of the exhibit, which will be up through May, will be the revolving door of insects, including millipedes, a praying mantis and hissing cockroaches, said DSCM Director Annette Geiselman. More than 15 varieties of insects, and ... How many years ago ...sometimes it seems like yesterday, other times oh so long ago. As August is almost on us, how can I forget, Mom doing the last minute laundry in order to get everything packed. Dad still trying to figure out how in the world we ... ... Special mention: "Pan's Labyrinth." Actually R-rated and parts are too dark for young kids, but not for the most insightful. Call this a "transitional" family film, as kids move from Disney to dark stars, golden compasses and a praying mantis. Is about as sexy as a praying mantis. If Coulter were a man, she'd never be allowed on TV.Ann's slipping, though; she's become an unconvincing fascist parody, increasingly betraying herself in televised interviews, blushing at her own brazen idiocy We use ODE for physics, TinyXML for all our animations and config stuff, SVN for version control, Mantis for bug tracking, and custom level and animation editors. Developing this game would have been very painful/expensive had it not been for a solid ...
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