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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Olivier Messiaen
His program of Bach's Goldberg Variations and Olivier Messiaen's Twenty Ways of Looking at the Infant Jesus (he performed only four of the ways, the total is about 21/2 hours) put extreme demands on both the performer and listener. He pushed the ... The bird-watcher and composer Olivier Messiaen had perfect pitch; he was known for ambling through the French countryside and recording the calls he heard on staff paper. Next question? Explainer thanks Jack Bradbury of Cornell University and Richard ... Stockhausen took the musical template of Olivier Messiaen and Anton Webern and tore it up. His classical influence on others was less obvious, though his pupil Wolfgang Rihm and members of the ``Darmstadt School'' such as Boulez have followed a ... After completing his studies in musicology, philosophy and German literature at the University of Cologne, he studied under composer Olivier Messiaen in 1952-53 in Paris, where he also met his French contemporary Pierre Boulez. In 1966-67, he served ... Lisbon's vast Coliseu concert hall was in tumult. For 20 minutes, the audience of 5,000 at the Gulbenkian Festival simultaneously hailed and hooted as French Composer Olivier Messiaen, thin gray hair disheveled and glasses askew, went through the ... In many cases, it's the outlying eccentrics - Olivier Messiaen, Jean Sibelius, Morton Feldman, John Cage or minimalist magician Steve Reich - who prompt the author's most passionate advocacy. The composers themselves, of course, were seldom so even ... More esoteric questions of the nature of God were addressed by composer Olivier Messiaen simply being himself. Music director David Lockington led guest artists and a superlative Grand Rapids Symphony Chorus in a performance of emotional depth ... The late Olivier Messiaen’s music is not even that modern, for instance, yet even his works are rare in the city. It took plucky Summerfest to perform his “Quartet for the End of Time” in 2002, and it was one of the most memorable experiences ... The relentlessness of war isn't a particularly original subject, though works like Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 , Olivier Messiaen's chamber music piece Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps, and the plays that make up Shakespeare's "Henriad" prove the truism ... The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music presents its first event, a free, public performance and interdepartmental discussion of Olivier Messiaen's 1956 masterwork "Oiseaux Exotiques" (Exotic Birds) for piano solo and small orchestra. This unique ...
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