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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Pretty Boy Floyd
Click here for more Hatton v Mayweather reaction Floyd Mayweather has again claimed he will take an extended break from boxing, insisting he is "bored with the sport" after his majestic victory over Ricky Hatton. Mayweather forced a 10th-round ... American star 'Pretty Boy' Floyd Mayweather sent out a chilling warning to Ricky Hatton as he captured the WBC light-welterweight crown from Canadian tough-guy Arturo Gatti in Atlantic City. The 28-year-old, touted as a future opponent for Britain's ... Floyd Mayweather cruised to victory in his first fight as a light-welterweight against DeMarcus Corley on Saturday night. "Pretty Boy" Floyd, now 32-0 (21), never looked in trouble against Corley, a former WBO world champion at 140lbs. Mayweather, a ... Pretty Boy' Floyd, considered by many pundits to be the best pound-for-pound fighter in the game right now, improves to 35-0 (24) as a result and will be looking for more big fights in 2006. IBF light-welterweight champion Ricky Hatton has been ... Click here for more Hatton v Mayweather reaction Johnny Nelson hailed Floyd Mayweather as a true great after witnessing his masterclass against Ricky Hatton. The former cruiserweight world champion believes the Pretty Boy cemented his place in boxing ... He made $55 million in a losing effort to Mr. “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather. In two bouts, Floyd “Money” Mayweather made close to De La ($25 million from Ricky Hatton came later in the year). There you have it, some of the the biggest pay ... All three have spent time in charge of "Pretty Boy" Floyd, as he is officially known in the boxing world, and all three have predictably attacked each other. At present Roger, who was known as the Black Mamba and won world titles at two ... DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - They tell about the Wright brothers and the Ohio-Erie Canal - and also about the Bentonville Anti-Horse Thief Society, the death of Pretty Boy Floyd and the Cholera Cemetery. Like a history book scattered across Ohio's landscape ... In fact, at the start of 2007, Pacquiao was locked in an airtight race with American Floyd “Pretty Boy” Mayweather Jr. for the accolade. Pacquiao was riding on the wave of back-to-back knockout victories over ... ... to let the action flow as the Hitman's dream of becoming the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world were shattered by Floyd Mayweather. Ricky was knocked out in the 10th round in Las Vegas and while Watt readily admitted that the Pretty Boy was ...
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