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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Orphanage
... for girls in need; the Hurricane Katrina evacuee who furnished a new home; the 98-year-old man who collects and assembles bicycle parts, then gives what he's built to children; and the woman in Austin, Texas, who collected items for an orphanage in ... Amorous bull needs some heifers to help group support African orphanage BY JENNIFER A. BOWEN News-Democrat A West African bull dubbed Pussa Barka Khalid needs a girlfriend or two, and a couple of metro-east residents are trying to help raise money to ... Location Atlantic Bergen Burlington Camden Cape May Cumberland Essex Gloucester Hudson Hunterdon Mercer Middlesex Monmouth Morris Ocean Passaic Salem Somerset Sussex Union Warren Manhattan Brooklyn East Shore Mid Island North Shore South Shore West ... His mother became destitute after a bad second marriage, and Billy and one of his siblings lived for several years in a soldiers' orphanage. Billy became a professional baseball player, a speedy outfielder, but he left the game after conversion by ... Recently Santa Barbara Middle School's students raised money for an orphanage in Mexico, all while taking care of its own community in Santa Barbara. Volunteering over 5,000 hours of community service per year, students enhance their education both ... William Jewell student April Balsley (left) made a donation recently to the Energy of Hope orphanage, run by Amanda Dye. Dye set up a booth to collect donations. The first thing one observes about Amanda Dye is her intensity — she’s driven, she ... SAED HINDASH/THE STAR-LEDGER The Pluckemin Inn in Bedminster hits all the right notes for food, service, atmosphere and value. Fine dining in New Jersey continued to improve and evolve during 2007, when some longtime favorites more than held their ... ROBERT ZUCKERMAN Nicolas Cage in "National Treasure: Book of Secrets." HOLLYWOOD -- The adventure sequel "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" was once again the big draw at the weekend box office, taking in an estimated $35.6 million, but it was the ... The big noise from Spain comes from "The Orphanage," a huge hit on its home turf presented by Guillermo del Toro, who explored parallel worlds and childhood traumas in "Pan's Labyrinth" to extravagantly imaginative results. The man del Toro is ... Widbin said he began to kick the idea around in the summer of 2004 after visiting an orphanage in Kenya on a mission trip. While spending a week and a half building water tanks and bathrooms, he noticed children playing his favorite game. "I couldn't ...
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