The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
|
01/23/2008 09:57 AM
|
|
Alicia Keys
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/20/2008 09:52 PM
|
|
Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/16/2008 08:53 PM
|
|
Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/15/2008 08:45 PM
|
|
Tom Baxter - Skybound
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/14/2008 04:54 PM
|
|
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/13/2008 03:16 PM
|
|
Chrisette Michele
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/12/2008 02:31 PM
|
|
Sara Bareilles
|
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, [...]
|
|
01/11/2008 02:27 PM
|
|
Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
|
“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 [...]
|
|
01/07/2008 04:26 PM
|
|
Kanye vs Beyonce
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/07/2008 01:42 PM
|
|
Fogerty’s Creative Revival
|
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 [...]
|
|
|
Sonic Reign
Ron Paul is a closet Sonic Youth fan? Yes, it's a cool graphic device, but if you have to explain a graphic device, that ... The Democrats were elected to end the war and reign in the president in the 2006 midterm elections--they've done neither ... Mario & Sonic Claim Gold In UK Sales Charts Gamasutra's Best Of 2007: Top 5 Downloadable Games Road To The IGF: Audiosurf Making ... Room 215 continues its reign at the top of the DS charts in the United States and Japan, despite the title receiving virtually ... ... was a golden god, not yet a Viking elder, and the late John Bonham — whose death in 1980 abruptly ended Zeppelin’s reign ... They were focused, confident and unrelenting. “Dazed & Confused” and “In My Time Of Dying” were sonic masterpieces ... Inspired by the sonic wizardry of King Tubby — likely the very first human to use the mixing board as an instrument to ... Whilst panic may reign in Babylon, once-lost, now-found explorer Perry has achieved a measure of serenity Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore notes as much in the introduction to "Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy" (Abrams, $27.50 ... With "Sarah Sze," however, the images delightfully reign with essays and checklists confined to the front and the back of the ... Rare & Unreleased Recordings From the Golden Reign of the Queen Of Soul” “Mr. Wexler, I’m Aretha Franklin.” That ... photography by Abby Banks, and edited by Thurston Moore (poet, artist, musician and founder/bass player of the band Sonic ... Nobody summed up the dominance of Alabama football in 25 seasons under coach Paul "Bear" Bryant better than Bryant's longtime rival, Auburn coach Shug Jordan. When told in the mid-1970s that LSU soon might fire coach Charlie McClendon for his ... In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than ... electronics and devising overdub techniques (with the help of engineer Eddie Kramer in particular) to plot uncharted sonic ... ... catalogue, so when Sean Penn was creating his movie about McCandless’ life, it’s no wonder Vedder was given free reign to ... But taken as a sonic template for a movie about isolation and self-discovery, it’s a powerful and moving work. The album is ... Each week I will attempt to make a few predictions, both real and fantastic. I hope this helps you win a few sheckles and fantasy points. Let us take a look at a few of this weekend’s matchups. Please keep in mind that these predictions are for ...
|
