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 [...]
|
|
|
Album: Soul Bossa Nova - Full Album
... crystal-studded scepter, The Duchess (the nickname and solo album ... raps, and surprisingly well live), to pop, to reggae, to soul, to an a cappella cover of Sublime - is impressive. At one point, a band member jokingly improvised some bossa nova ... ... than 60 albums that serenaded, stoked and sated the full ... Lavette "The Scene of the Crime": The classic '70s soul singer returned to the studio where she cut her aborted first solo album ... Phantom Punch": Who would think to combine Brazilian bossa nova ... ... Corner," "Lady's Bridge" is a self-conscious time machine full of ... His ninth album, however, really demands attention. Soul Season is a thrilling blast of rocking, horn-driven ... ends with Brazilian composer Djalma Ferreira's fiery "Recado Bossa Nova." ... ... hit “Mushaboom.” That bit of punk bossa nova only hinted at the self-realization of this album. ... subtle girl’s breakthrough into full ... Her second album spurred debates about who owns the rights to vintage soul, but Winehouse’s brilliant ... ... rhythms from Cuba and modern pop, then comes back for flamenco, dips into bossa nova ... be heard in his latest CD, “Jungle.” It’s a re-release of his first album ... that evokes not merely a trip toward a holy destination but a wandering, a soul ... ... talent has flowed north ever since, from the jazz-tinged diva Elis Regina, bossa nova ... Her full name is Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças, but her shortened handle is ... Signed to San Francisco’s Six Degrees Records, CéU released an eponymous album ... ... became one of rap's first female stars in 1989 with her debut album ... her current approach "jazz eclectic," a mix of jazz, blues, soul, pop and folk, including Phoebe Snow's "Poetry Man" (her mom's favorite song), Antonio Carlos Jobim's bossa nova ... ... and a knack for inserting a quiver or a tearful hiccup into her faerie-like soul ... In the spirit of seeing the glass half-full, we’d suggest that the pop queen ... on everything from baile funk and surf guitars to kitschy theme songs and bossa nova. His show tonight covers songs from his album, new songs in English and a few takes on Brazilian popular music: samba, baião and bossa nova from people such as Gilberto Gil ... The band's self-titled full length came out in 2006. CMTM has been show ... A bar lines the back wall and tables are already full with jazz enthusiasts ... Bossa nova. Modal. Soul. Smooth. Acid. Nu. Funk. Rap. Electronica. And the list does go on. ... unknown to the average Joe, even pop singer Christina Aguilera’s 2006 album ...
|
