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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Sublime
WATCHING the squirmings of still-working late-night talk show hosts like Carson Daly makes for a sublime kind of voyeurism, certainly. And "Seinfeld" reruns are still amusing thanks to their heavy use of early '90s fashion. But for most of us ... Middleby made it 3-1 in the 66th minute when he bundled the ball over the line after Corica did the damage with a sublime cross which Brosque back-heeled towards goal. The loss places Adelaide in serious danger of being ousted from the playoffs for ... From the sublime ("BioShock") to the visually stunning ("Crysis"), there are more ways to wield weapons in convincing three-dimensional worlds than ever before. That's the good news, particularly for console owners. PC owners, however, are going to ... The birds appeared happy enough with their lot in life, and the resulting foie gras was sublime. Alas, the artesianal approach is far too labour intensive (read expensive) to satisfy demand, and practically no-one can be bothered to do it at home ... The ballrooms will be jumping all evening with the hysterical antics of Second City and the sublime sounds of Jennifer Lynn. The celebration, befitting a city of such monumental proportions, will be topped off by the dazzling Chicago Showgirls and ... I chat with people (kids giddy after the sublime “Ratatouille”; adults angry after “Are We Done Yet?” – one comment, “Is it over yet?”). With my Reporter's Notebook out, I get nudged the moment credits roll, “What'd you think?” My ... Look at Allison Schmitt and what you see depends on your perspective. If you are a swimmer at Canton High School, you see a teammate who is in the water before you arrive and leaves after you are long gone. If you are Canton coaches Molly Raines and ... Director Sean Penn's sublime end-of-the-road movie invests its story with beauty and spirit -- in a strange way it's a very heartening tragedy. With Emile Hirsch and vivid support from Catherine Keener, Brian Dierker and Hal Holbrook. "Zodiac" David ... ... in life, WB Yeats wrote a poem called “Beautiful Lofty Things” in which he recalled moments the psychologist Abraham Maslow would have termed “peak experiences”. But these weren’t simply personal, individual experiences, they were sublime ... Parker, whose wonderfully offbeat "Nut/Cracked" finds the silly and sublime in the holiday dance classic "The Nutcracker," says his approach to the music that inspires his choreography is "just basic to my understanding of life. I didn't have any ...
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