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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Stephane Grappelli
... the world’s jazz stage, choosing which tracks best represent his considerable output and idiosyncratic style. Fans of the Hot Club of France, his best-known ensemble, may like to know that Reinhardt’s co-star in it, violinist Stéphane Grappelli ... It could be anything from the Red Clay Ramblers to Woody Guthrie to Charlie Poole, just very old folk music we used to play, even some stuff from Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt.' Tickets are just $5 in advance at the Downtown Trading Company ... He led the Oscar Peterson Trio for much of the 1950s and collaborated with jazz luminaries such as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Milt Jackson, Herb Ellis, Louis Armstrong, Stephane Grappelli, Ella Fitzgerald and Clark Terry. Peterson died of kidney ... One Leg Up’s acoustic jazz is sometimes referred to as “Gypsy Jazz,” a sound pioneered by violinist Stephane Grappelli and guitarist Django Reinhardt. In New York this week, musicians are celebrating Reinhardt’s influence. While that ... Carrying on the tradition of the late legendary Stephane Grappelli, violinist Florin Niculescu took the stage, and for a fleeting few moments, the historic Quintet of the Hot Club of France was reborn. From the classic Django repertoire, "Coquette ... The form was popularized by Django Reinhardt as well as Stephane Grappelli's Hot Club de France (from whom the Hot Club models its all-string arrangement after) in the 1930s. Led by lead guitarist Paul Mehling, one of America's premier players of the ... O'Connor was just 17 when he began touring with the legendary jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli in the late '70s. His initial audition was on guitar, but soon he was playing violin duets with Grappelli. A quarter-century later the influence of the ... Stéphane Grappelli was a bit of an uncle to me, a suave, elegant, exuberant, fun-loving figure who was probably the best ambassador for the violin we've ever had. When he got on a stage, he wouldn't start talking about his music, or telling jokes ... In the 1980s, he made more than 20 albums and toured the world with jazz violin legend Stephane Grappelli. His influences include Django Reinhardt, Ike Isaacs, Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass. The Festival Theatre concert hosted by John Schaefer starts ... The next year his parents drove him up to Vancouver to see great jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Grappelli signed O'Connor's white violin. Four years later, the master had long forgotten the kid when another ...
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