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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Runrig
Veteran Scottish folk-rock band Runrig achieved its first-ever top 10 single at No. 9 with an adaptation of "Loch Lomond" (Ridge). The recording features the Tartan Army, the name given to Scottish football supporters, and was released last week in ... ... That's Rule The World and Timbaland's Apologize were also unchanged at two and three respectively. It was Kylie Mingoue's comeback single, 2 Hearts, which topped the highest new entry list at number four. Bloc Party's non-album single Flux and Runrig's ... We’re a bit confused as to Runrig ’s presence in the top ten (number nine, FYI), with ' Loch Lomond ' - misplaced fitba’-inspired bout of patriotism or charity ‘thing’? T2 Ft Jodie Aysha take their pleasingly lo-fi garage ditty, ‘ Heartbroken ... NEVER mind the hangovers, the magnificent Tartan Army have a great reason to celebrate today - they're No1 in the charts. Runrig's Children In Need single Loch Lomond - with the Tartan Army's backing vocals - shot straight to the top of the Scottish ... RUNRIG'S recording of Loch Lomond with the Tartan Army is set to be a surprise hit in Germany. The rousing anthem, which will be played at half-time during the big game against Italy tomorrow, is to be released as a single in Germany. The song, which ... ... star John Jeffrey and River City star Stephen Purdon took part in a cook-off against Still game star Jane McCarry, actress Daniella Nardini and TV presenter Carol Smillie. The Children In Need total will be boosted by sales of Loch Lomond by Runrig ... Rock group Runrig have officially launched their Loch Lomond single in aid of the BBC's Children in Need and in support of Scotland's Hampden clash. They have pulled out of performing at the match. Their manager Steve Cullen said the band had flown ... Rock band Runrig have had to pull out of performing at the game. It had been hoped that the group would play at half-time for 51,000 fans at Hampden Park. The band have recently recorded a new charity version of Tartan Army favourite Loch Lomond ... And Runrig and the Tartan Army will give their first-ever live performance of charity single Loch Lomond. The appeal night kicks off at 7pm tonight. The national event includes a special sketch which sees current Doctor Who David Tennant meet his ... He was really there to shore up support for ex-Runrig man Donnie Munro in his attempt to win the Skye seat for Labour. He failed. Mostly because of the hated Skye Bridge tolls which Labour supported. Maybe J.E. proposes paying back the money the ...
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