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: Sound Of The Sitar
Put simply, the Bosstown Sound was a downer of massive proportions: "A song like the Ultimate Spinach's 'Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess,' " explains Milano regarding a typical Bosstown recording, "with its sitar, finger cymbals, and weighty spoken ... It's the sound clash between art and commerce - as another of Low's misty songs unfurls, another beer bottle hits the bin ... the floor and they play a barmy mix of Eastern and Indo-influenced psychedelic instrumental rock complete , face paint, sitar ... ... sounding musical fusion that becomes a space where musical aspects from different cultures interact to become “the sound of ... like playing the oud as an imitation of the guitar, or making the oud mimic other string instruments like the sitar or sarod ... In fact, some Violent Squid CDs sound like the latter is exactly what happened. Of ... But a few hypnotic moments, like the back-and-forth sitar and cello on "...Rainbows," certainly make it tempting As a sitar player, he traveled to India to continue his study. While there, he asked a high-ranking guru to give him a mantra ... He also felt a connection with the "om" sound, or creative force sound "being piped in through us." The second half is a ... ... Glover. (Via a motion-capture bodysuit and high-tech microphones, the man supplied the cartoon penguin's movement and sound ... His own accompaniment will be spare: sitar or steel guitar. JPMorgan Chase Latino Cultural Festival (July 25- Aug. 5, Queens ... How about “Pretty in Pink” and “The Sound of Music”? Will “Harold and Maude” make it? What’s missing? What just ... duo’s chilled-out dance vibe just screams for the wee hours, but the DJ pair and their band - including an actual sitar ... ... used to be that Iron and Wine (aka Sam Beam) relied mostly on negative space — that is, quietness or the absence of sound ... of drum tones struck in a syncopated pattern give "White Tooth Man" a churning pulse, made more hypnotic by a guttural, sitar ... The excerpt from sitar master Shankar's performance exemplifies his continuing influence on rock, jazz, and minimalist/trance ... Alas, all was not golden — the Byrds show how sloppy they could be live and the Animals sound sadly dated. By and large ... ... with constant gigging in the Merseyside area, most often at the legendary Cavern Club, the incubator of the Merseybeat sound. ... textures, experimenting with distortion and multi-tracking, and using unconventional (for rock) instruments like the sitar. ...
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