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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The Ethereal
Almost ethereal in its softness, it's a gentle not-quite-love-story, with a final image sure to pierce your heart. "Ratatouille." The Pixar gang, which seemingly has an unlimited number of terrific movies up its sleeves, has done it again with this ... Working alone on his computer, Noah Lennox (whose stage name is Panda Bear) builds loops and layers of psychedelia around his ethereal, sun-drenched melodies. Anything you might call "fractured Beach Boys" isn't for everyone, but Lennox's nearly ... The ethereal song “Our Love Is Here to Stay” has nothing final about it. Not so Chopin’s “Polonaise-Fantasie,” which sounds like a musician playing at his own funeral. Richard Strauss was the ultimate professional, even in the planning of his ... Something ethereal, almost magical happens to Rhonehouse between the time she gets the call and when she walks into the hospital room to face a comatose child’s family. “She is calm. She is an unbelievable support,” Gillies said. That’s a ... Against the backdrop of the misty Rif, the vista has an almost ethereal feel. Continuing further along the path, we surmise that surely all the fields in this direction aren't dominated by the tricky stuff. How wrong we are. The cannabis plants are ... Schnabel, the ethereal cinematographer Janusz Kaminski and screenwriter Ronald Harwood (who also adapted Love in the Time of Cholera ) meld waking life with memory and imagination in collages of gossamer beauty off-set by the mundane. Jean-Do is bathed Painting, they argue, suggest the ethereal or impassioned with the encumbrance of materiality. This is to miss the point entirely as ‘Pursuit Sculpture’ at Galerie 88 had admirably demonstrated. Adip Dutta’s decontextualized works in bronze ... Instead of your usual woolly ethereal trash, cite me one sentence from my post that is inaccurate. Teachers *secondary* are largely fallout from real life. They are damaged goods, incapable of hacking it in the real world. The very notion of pandering ... But somehow, among the piles of mail, in that ethereal way that underpins human connection, the note from Patty Browere stood out. They kept up with each other for 14 years. Two stroke victims sending monthly and weekly letters across the states ... We leapt off the ship, ran across my living room, jumped into the Mystery Machine ("Stop jumping on the bed!" shouted an ethereal voice that sounded a lot like my mom), and raced to safety. For the next several months, we were inseparable ...
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