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: Portrait of Duke Ellington
While highlighting love songs written and made famous by Duke Ellington, the program also includes classic works by Mingus ... Last season, our saxophonist, Ted Nash, wrote a long-form piece for the band called "Portrait in Seven Shades," inspired ... ... of quirky characters: hilarious teenage trainwreck Keisha, aka Li’l Bit (DeAndrea Crawford); bourbon-sipping portrait ... In “Duke Ellington’s Cat” — Jon Ludwig’s wondrously crafted new show at the Center for Puppetry Arts — a pair of ... ... by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra came near the end of the program honoring the great Duke Ellington ... On "Self-Portrait of the Bean," a piece Ellington wrote for the great tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, JLCO tenorman Victor Goines ... ... history, Charles Burnett's 1977 classic wowed critics and audiences around the world with his blues-infused portrait of ... This beautifully made film features a dynamic score by jazz great Duke Ellington. Louis Armstrong co-stars. 2:15 p.m. A Patch of ... The evening's musical selections will span the centuries, from classical to jazz and modern composers, and will include works by Chopin, Duke Ellington, Gershwin, Hancock, Scriabin and Beethoven. The young musicians will play a Bluthner small concert ... Stamp artist Kazuhiko Sano of Mill Valley, CA, painted Chesnutt's portrait based on a 1908 photograph from the special ... The first screen appearance of Duke Ellington in the 1929 film Black and Tan. -- Princess Tam-Tam, a French film issued in 1935 ... Both Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie warmly acknowledged this contribution, and Duke Ellington made sure to include a portrait of Armstrong in his "New Orleans Suite." While he didn't follow new musical trends, Armstrong never stopped challenging ... The building is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso (whose portrait still hangs in ... U2, Buddy Holly, Duke Ellington, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Britney Spears, Al Jolson, Mae West, Will Rogers, Isadora Duncan, Ethel ... The story of three women and one man is told through the music of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Bessie Smith in this blues ... get the Broadway treatment in director Des McAnuff's more than serviceable but less than brilliant musical portrait, which ... ... 1958's On the Town , recorded at Toronto's Town Tavern, and 1962's Night Train , which included a number of Duke Ellington pieces ... Peterson called the project "my musical portrait of the Canada I love," and it was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1965 ...
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