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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Queens Of The Stone Age
When you look back at 2007, will you remember that time Britney Spears found out “Gimme More” had leaked and bugged out in her car, or when Queens of the Stone Age donned their best holiday sweaters for an appearance on Anthony Bourdain’s ... Among the hits were concerts by The Shins, Modest Mouse, The Arcade Fire, Neil Young, Feist, Iron & Wine, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Queens of the Stone Age and Blue Scholars. The Download Festival, which mixed music and commerce as never before ... Queens of the Stone Age's "Era Vulgaris." Frontman Josh Homme's methodology is hard to beat. He puts melodic sheen on his weighty sound and mixes beauty with agitation, with no two songs sounding remotely alike. Plus unlike many vocalists in hardcore ... Beauty-queens-gone-bad in the news by Vicki Hyman/Star-Ledger Staff ... Island, off the coast of Madagascar) posing in a bikini on a cross and lasciviously licking a milky substance off a stone ... Artists: Bright Eyes , Queens of The Stone Age , Interpol , Slayer , Modest Mouse , The Gossip , Lamb of God , 65daysofstatic , Ludacris , Mastodon , Kaiser Chiefs , Amy Winehouse , The Killers , My Chemical Romance , The Long Blondes , TV On The ... The Black Angels descended upon the festival circuit and toured with Queens of the Stone Age . Voxtrot dropped its highly anticipated full-length debut on Playlouder . Smaller acts like the Lovely Sparrows , Peter & the Wolf , and Sparrow House all helmed ... Era Vulgaris," Queens of the Stone Age; "As I Am," Alicia Keys; "Bone Palace Ballet," Chiodos; "Icky Thump," White Stripes; "Super Taranta," Gogol Bordello; "Cassadaga," Bright Eyes; "Writer's Block," Peter Bjorn and John; "Here Lies Empty Orchestra ... ... The party the Foo Fighters tossed during the VMAs quickly became the new home of Headbangers Ball with the likes of Eagles Of Death Metal kicking in for a set on the Fantasy Suite stage, and the band's Josh Homme also led his Queens Of The Stone Age ... Let's hope U2 or the Boss comes to Idaho in 2008. Best Small Concert: Queens of the Stone Age rocked 1,000 faces clean off at The Big Easy. Neil Young put on an excellent but not quite stunning Morrison Center show. An unforgettable concert has as much ... And Queens of the Stone Age showed a rawness never before revealed. Tell you what - buy those five albums and you're "mainstream" set, but you'll find my subjective "best" in tomorrow's paper. See you then ...
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