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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Putumayo
Sometimes you wonder if a trip is worth it. I went down to the southern Colombian jungle to a place called Putumayo, near the Ecuadorian border. The Colombian government had just dug up a mass grave and people were going to identify items to finally ... Thanks to Dan Storper and Alyssa Wilcox of Putumayo World Music; George Ingmire for selecting the music for JazzSet ; Michael Paz, Rick Naiser and Tet Kondo of Festival Recording Studios. Our technical director is Duke Markos, our producer is Becca ... Though they’ve collaborated with Calexico, appeared on a compilation CD for world-music label Putumayo, and had a song featured in the film The Life of David Gale , when they perform in Agua Verde’s intimate dining room, they still feel like our ... One of the cutest CD’s we own is called Name Your Tune and it is basically a personalized compilation of children’s music. Kids hear their name more than 80 times during 14 recognizable songs. For example, the classic "Old MacDonald had a farm ... A Colombian peasant displays coca seeds from his plantation near the San Miguel River, in Teteye, department of Putumayo, along Colombia's border with Ecuador, December 2006. AFP/Getty Images All Things Considered , April 3, 2007 · The war on drugs ... ... was held between "delegates of the three European countries, France, Spain and Switzerland, who are authorised by the national government to seek a humanitarian agreement," and the FARC spokesman, Raúl Reyes, who works in the department of Putumayo ... The company's Colombia production increased almost three-fold between January and September 2007 to 1,450 barrels of oil equivalent per day, with more lucrative investments in the conflict-beset southeastern Putumayo region, set to start producing in ... In the oil-rich southern province of Putumayo on the border with Ecuador and Peru, the number of bodies found in common graves and clandestine cemeteries could reach 3,000, said Iguarán. On Saturday, the attorney-general revealed the discovery ... Barranca Bermeja lies just across the San Miguel River from the Colombian region of Putumayo, which has suffered heavily from the country's decades-long internal armed conflict. Fighting between different armed groups has stalled economic activity ... The precedent for the current nationwide demonstrations dates back to 1996, when coca growers protested the start of aerial spraying of their crops in the southern departments of Caquetá, Putumayo and Guaviare. At the time, the farmers stressed that ...
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