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: The Best Of The Pogues
Just as often, though, the whole fusion thing gets a bad rap — one that its bravery, in the best examples, insists it does ... The Pogues hit me incredibly hard with their indelible smash-up of traditional Irish music and punk rock, though the band did ... Philip Roth ended his best novel, Operation Shylock, there, and I engaged in a shamefully trivial but bitter three-way feud ... It's the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl doing " Fairytale of New York ," and it's the saddest, most heartbreaking Christmas song you ... The show closed with a dazzling, Pogues-like version of the Celtic-infused "American Land," a paean to the hard-working ... And after a little more than two hours, another exhilarating live performance, the best in rock, was over. kevin.cowherd ... Shane MacGowan of the Pogues on Kirsty MacColl , who was killed six years ago yesterday, and their song Fairytale of New York , which won a 2004 poll for best Christmas song. [ via Gawker ] ... My nominee for best Christmas song is something I've only ... P.P.S.: I second Maguire's transpartisan (even trans-Plame) statement of support and best wishes for relentless firedoglake blogger Jane Hamsher, who's about to undergo cancer surgery . ... 2:50 P.M. link Paparazzi catch hot Buick wearing see-through bra ... TBS’s “House of Payne” — This Atlanta-created sitcom August 22 pulled in its best numbers since its huge debut in June, averaging 3.8 million over two episodes, an increase of more than 50 percent over recent weeks. A TBS spokeswoman said the ... The best dishes of 2007 — it was a very good year "Vicious" six-pound dog scares the shit out of mailman in the Sunset Oxbow ... disc packed with soulful ballads, a Beatles-esque love song, Clash-ish reggae, an Irish folk ballad that rocks like the Pogues ... Because he supports his lyrics with his richly diverse music, Costello is one of the most innovative, influential, and best ... under the name the Coward Brothers) and producing Rum Sodomy and the Lash, the second album by the punk-folk band the Pogues ... Community center" might be the best description. In fact, many pubs in Ireland served as the equivalent of a general store ... Anything from the Chieftains to the Pogues -- and U2, of course." Got it, said Moore. "We'll do traditional Irish, and some of ... Shane MacGowan of the Pogues on Kirsty MacColl , who was killed six years ago yesterday, and their song Fairytale of New York , which won a 2004 poll for best Christmas song. [ via Gawker ] ... My nominee for best Christmas song is something I've only ...
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