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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R.E.M.
Upbeat pop can be incredibly noxious stuff. And while I consider myself far from your average cold-cockled music critic, most feel-good tunes make me want to slit my wrists with the broken shards of a R.E.M. "Shiny Happy People" cassingle. And then ... ... the studio got a boost when Bob Dylan recorded Time Out of Mind there in 1994 -- Criteria's first Album of the Year Grammy winner since 1978 -- and found a new set of star clients with the rise of the Latin music industry in Miami and acts like R.E.M ... After years of resistance, Warner Music Group , the label home to artists like Led Zeppelin , My Chemical Romance , Green Day , the White Stripes , and R.E.M. , among many others, has released its expansive catalogue into Amazon.com 's digital music ... The new year will bring new entertainment productions to Lafayette. Open auditions for a feature film with the working title, Third Eye , are set for Jan. 12 at Cité des Arts. "We'll start auditions in early January and hope to start shooting in ... While ignored by the general public, future generations of musicians ranging from R.E.M. to Jeff Buckley to Wilco to Chan Marshall have sung Chilton's praise, if not his compositions. Since the early '90s, he has toured sporadically with reunited ... Just like Michael Stipe’s mumbled lyrics on early R.E.M. albums, hyper-reduction was Ware’s attempt to cover up his inability to write dialogue. Nothing wrong with working around your weaknesses, right? But cartoons need great writing more than ... Singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. is 48. Actor Dave Foley (``NewsRadio») is 45. Actress Julia Ormond is 43. Country singer Deana Carter is 42. Harmonica player Benjamin Darvill of Crash Test Dummies is 41. Actor Jeremy Licht (``Valerie») is 37 ... His thoughts on No. 8 song “Waterfalls” by TLC : “That’s not one of their better songs.” How about R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” (No. 10)? “I didn’t really like that song too much.” Collective Soul’s “Shine” (No. 42)? “I ... ... you missed your favorite artist in concert or just want to bring home the memories, live packages are available from Sir Elton John, Madonna (who signed a revolutionary, all-encompassing deal with tour promoter Live Nation), Minogue, Erasure, R.E.M ... And those records were made in the most old-fashioned ways you can imagine." — Joe Boyd , producer of several Richard Thompson albums and R.E.M.'s Fables of the Reconstruction "I cant tell you how many times someone comes in and plays me something he ...
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