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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Nino Rota
The dialogue of Alex's break-up with his girlfriend is drowned out by a slow waltz by the Italian film composer Nino Rota. Van Sant may be a celebrity in Portland, but filming Paranoid Park in the city presented challenges that required delicate ... The music of Nino Rota, a longtime Fellini collaborator, resounded while mourners expressed their grief. A band played the theme from La Dolce Vita at Trevi Fountain where Fellini shot his splendid scene with Anita Ekberg. The Italians certainly know ... The score mixes a marvelous original piano theme by Paul Cantelon with fragments of Nino Rota and other film composers, plus Tom Waits and more. Schnabel interpolates stills of Marlon Brando (shot during the making of "Candy") when we hear Bauby ... I thought it was the best soundtrack of a movie I'd ever heard outside of Nino Rota. Then I did "Leaving Las Vegas" and the first sound you heard was Sting. So it seemed like a good match. Q: Where will you be on December 25th? A: This year I'm going to ... A harp solo and ensemble concert, featuring "La Joyeuse-Rondo" by Jean-Phillippe Rameau, "Pensive Moment" by Stephanie Curcio, "Sarabande and Toccata" by Nino Rota, "Berceuse" by Gabriel Faure and "Silent Night," is Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Brigham ... When it comes to Hollywood praise, Aaron Copland, Nino Rota, George Gershwin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and the mighty Dimitri Shostakovich got nothing on John Williams. The preeminent movie composer — who's scored everything from "Valley of the ... Instead of playing "Star Wars" (John Williams) and "The Godfather" (Nino Rota), Butterman has chosen to feature less popular works by popular movie composers and more cinematic pieces by classic music composers. "In this one, I guess I wanted to look ... First to appear was Jason Cash, trombone, who played the "Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra" by Nino Rota (Rota also composed the film score for "The Godfather"). Cash, a sophomore music education major at Oklahoma State University, has won a ... Paper Gangsters" jacks Nino Rota's Godfather theme while Free screams at anyone trying to take his style. On "It's Over," he aims some possible slick-talk at Kanye, who understandably seems to be avoiding these guys, over a riotous series of horn-stabs Riccardo Chailly led the Filarmonica della Scala in two hours of Respighi, Nino Rota and Wagner with tenor Ben Heppner, and then rewarded listeners' cheers with 20 minutes of Verdi and Rossini encores. It was two songs into Wagner's Die Wesendonck ...
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