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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Album: Song For Everyone
Everyone knows the “City That Never Sleeps” has always had quite the reputation when it comes to food . NYC and pizza have always gone hand in hand, but as far as the shops go, they now outnumber the pedestrians 5:1 (stat may be exaggerated). Hot ... ... and a deluxe reissue of the '76 concert disc, "The Song Remains the Same"? "They've been sort of priming the pump," theorized Daily News pop-music sage Jonathan Takiff . With friends like these . . . The conga line of people who want everyone to know ... It takes every song that everyone's heard more than they ever desired to, like "Highway Star" by Deep Purple, and makes me inhabit them. And thus, they become new again. It's hard to write off a rock epic like Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills" as ... Asked what song on "Field Manual" is the most removed from Death Cab, Walla picks "The Score." His reasoning: "In part ... He admits that, when he first started talking about moving from Seattle to Portland, "Everyone was a little worried about how ... ... precisely long enough for "Holiday" by Madonna, "Gloria" by Laura Branigan and about two-thirds of "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson — plus a few seconds of a Christian rock song that was punched up by accident and left everyone ... Recessions are like a junior high dance when the DJ plays a slow song: Everyone knows they don’t want to stand near the wall with their friends, but that’s what they end up doing anyway. Ronald Reagan quipped that a recession was when your ... The band said they were ready to start, then blazed through the song in less than two minutes. Everyone was pleased.The band nailed the next song, a head-bobbing anthem called "Look Out Young Son," in one take, then did two more songs. Moeller and ... Tom Brady vs. Eli Manning . The first thing everyone wanted to know as soon as I got here, is "How is Tom Brady?" Well, according ... San Diego. It's consistent, the media always raves about it, and as the song says, they've got more bounce in California. 2 ... SYRACUSE, Ind. - We're at the end of 2005, and I want to wish everyone a belated Merry Wintervale. What's that? You don't know ... So they changed the song to "God Rest Ye Merry Persons." Or as it's sung, "God Rest Ye Merry Peeeerrrrrsons." Let's just ... A crisis of conscience occurred when one-half of progressive-house duo Deep Dish joined up with Richie Hawtin's M_nus imprint and remixed Plastikman's "Spastik." (Imagine if Chad Kroeger signed to Merge and covered a Superchunk song on his first album
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