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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SPL
Henry Muindi is one of thousands of young Kenyan men involved in running minibus taxis, known as matatus, in the capital, Nairobi. At 31 he is also among the eight million younger swing voters expected to play a decisive role in next week’s hotly ... Office workers grab a bite to eat before the long commute home from Shinjuku station. Japan is the world's second biggest economy but it struggles to produce enough food. The government says only 39% of the food the Japanese need is grown in Japan ... GLASGOW, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Celtic leapfrogged arch rivals Rangers to regain top spot in the Scottish Premier League after a 3-0 win at home to bottom side Gretna on Saturday. Rangers briefly held the lead after a 2-1 win at Hibernian in a lunchtime ... Winger Davie Cooper (a team-mate of O'Donnell's for several years) died at 39 in 1995 after suffering a brain haemorrhage when filming a training video. A spokesman for the SPL confirmed that Motherwell's match at Hibernian on Wednesday has been ... The basic facts of the 17 years he gave British football tell a tale of solid achievement; one Scotland cap, the SPL championship, and four cup final appearances. But context casts these feats in an even kinder light. Such were the catastrophic ... Celtic leaped back above Rangers to the SPL summit after beating Gretna 3-0, with Falkirk inflicting a fifth successive defeat on Hearts. Rangers' 2-1 win at Hibernian earlier in the day saw the Ibrox side leapfrog the Hoops at the top of the SPL by ... "We just don't want someone coming in and another club taking them away as happened with 'Big Eck' [McLeish]," added the skipper. "But you can't blame him. He always wanted to go down to the English Premier League and he has gone down and done pretty ... Goals from Scott McDonald and Scott Brown and a late strike from Aiden McGeady against Gretna keep Celtic at the summit of the SPL ahead of the Old Firm derby on Wednesday. Gordon Strachan's team finished with a three-goal margin, although McDonald ... Rangers made just one change from the side that beat Motherwell for today's Clydesdale Bank Premier League game against Hibernian at Easter Road. Charlie Adam missed out with a thigh strain and was replaced by Brahim Hemdani. Lee McCulloch was free ... Inverness bounced back from defeat at Falkirk as they convincingly won 3-1 at home to Kilmarnock to make it six SPL wins out of seven. The Highlanders broke the deadlock in the 42nd minute when Grant Munro's long-throw found John Rankin and, after ...
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