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 Diary of Alicia Keys
Arguably one of Yearwood's best albums to date, Heaven has been described as the record she always wanted to make as it takes a straight-forward country approach. The album includes the new single, "This Is Me You're Talking To." Heaven, Heartache ... The success of her first two albums, "Songs in A Minor" and "The Diary of Alicia Keys," came with a price, she said. "I did go through a time where I was very uncertain and insecure, because everything around me was falling apart. I was a wreck, and I ... Sheryl Crow, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Brad Paisley. And that news-reading reindeer is voiced by ABC News ... Diary entries, photos and interviews help to flesh out the story. “The 30th Annual Kennedy Center Honors” (9 p.m., CBS ... It has been four years since Alicia Keys' last studio CD, "The Diary of Alicia Keys," which won four Grammy Awards and was nominated for album of the year. A mite bit of pressure following up, perhaps? Launch single for upcoming "As I Am" shows the ... Apparently way too retro for a blog: The Diary of Alicia Keys . Best thing I learned from "The Fray": "Hip hop is rap. Calling it hip hop or house or whatever you choose to call it next year does not change the fact that it is rap." The record industry ... If "Songs in A Minor" was Keys' introduction to the world and "The Diary of Alicia Keys" was her transition to adulthood, "As I Am" marks her first fully formed work as a true artistic force, where her vision is clear from start to impressive finish. ... ... like You (Geffen), is being outsold by Alicia Keys's As I Am (Sony), but the grade school girls singing "Love" on YouTube understand that Keys's "No One" affectedly imitates the so-raw-it's-off-key stance of Cole's 2005 breakthrough ballad, a diary ... After "Bridget Jones's Diary" and "The Devil Wears Prada" lit a fire under the worldwide box office, it was only a matter ... Alicia Keys, as Annie's best friend, overdoes the you-go-girl sass. But after a while, Keys grows on you. She's a spark, a real ... Her 2001 major-label debut, Songs in A Minor, hit number one, went multi-platinum, and was followed in 2003 by another chart-topper, The Diary of Alicia Keys, which became a Grammy winner. The live CD/DVD Unplugged appeared in 2005, following her ... True, her debut, 2001's "Songs in A Minor," and her sophomore album, 2003's "The Diary of Alicia Keys," contained breathtakingly beautiful songs like "You Don't Know My Name," and "Fallin' " demonstrated why Keys is among the most heralded talents of ...
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