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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O'Death
One of DiS’s favourite bands from this year’s boozefest that is the South by Southwest conference, O’Death recently hit the UK for a storming set of dates with new label mates Menomena. Their second album, Head Home , is out next week (August 6 ... Head Home by O'Death O'Death found new life this year on Ernest Jenning Records with the re-release of 2006's Head Home. And it's a very good thing. If you haven't had the pleasure of hearing the record or seeing them live, now's your chance. The band ... o Death rates from breast cancer declined significantly during 1992 to 1998, with the largest decreases in younger women - both white and black. o An estimated 1,500 cases will be diagnosed among men this year. Dr. Sam Speron is a Chicago Plastic ... No one rush to judge or assume anything. For now accept it for what it is. He is resigning as President of the school. He is still working for OREA and as such represents the school in some fashion to be determined. That may change with a new ... Novak, who has sung with the Camerata Vocal Ensemble of Valparaiso and studied voice with Marsha Lewis at VU, will sing the aria "O thou that tallest good tidings" (Part I) and the duet with tenor "O death, where is thy sting?" (Part III). A nurse at ... Besides getting some more support he needs to remove some of those folks from his current list, those hutchinson boys seem like the sure fire kiss o death. Off the thread a bit but an interesting article on Crooks & Liars this morning about a repug ... Great choices, compared to actual professionals with public service in mind. Obviously will build public confidence in government. As the late, great Rodney Dangerfield used to say: “O Death — where is thy sting?” L.L. , at 7:55 am EDT on May 14 ... Toronto, Canada's Rock Plaza Central quickly endeared themselves to the crowds at this year's SXSW, flooring music writers and college kids alike with the triumphant post-Mangum folk anthems of their strangely moving sophomore record, Are We Not ... They are O’Death . Standout track is 'Only Daughter' , while a crazed, gothic version of The Pixies' 'Nimrod's Son' gets the crowd equally raging. They’ve just signed to City Slang in Europe, so hopefully they’ll come the UK’s way soon. Over ... Or Melinda Doolittle putting those dusky tones of hers to Ralph Stanley’s haunting ‘O Death’? And what did we get? Richardson’s nasally invocation of Rascal Flatts’ insipid ‘Mayberry’. And Sanjaya Malakar’s mushy prance through Bonnie ...
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