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 London Symphony Orchestra
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1946, is the country’s leading professional orchestra. It has an establishment of ... did in a magnificent, beautifully shaped performance that really set the spine tingling.” Evening Standard (London) ... Veteran American conductor Leonard Slatkin, in his first appearance with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra since 1979, led dynamic ... His tenure in Washington ends next year and his other titled posts in Los Angeles, Nashville and London are secondary ... Age: 63 New gig: Music director, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Current posts: Music director, National Symphony (1996-2008); principal guest conductor, Pittsburgh Symphony (beginning 2008); principal guest conductor, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London ... From 1977-94, he was the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC and he was a regular guest conductor with the London Philharmonic and London Symphony orchestras. While his mastery of the cello was unquestionable, however ... HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- For a while it seemed meetings between conductor Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra were cursed ... He'll be teaching a few weeks a year at Indiana University, and he's principal guest conductor of London's Royal ... And next month Tynan is the chosen soprano for the Judith Weir celebration, Telling the Tale, at the Barbican in London (January 18-20). She will sing in two Weir operas: Natural History , which she has just recorded with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ... One such musician is the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s Estonianborn Music Director Neemi Järvi, an American citizen ... as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the London ... ... symphony orchestra. This ... Orchestra will be conducted by German born Christoph Eschenbach. The maestro was named principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic in 1981 and in 1988 assumed the post of Music Director for the Houston Symphony in ... Leading the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, he will open the show with a score ... Other works would include Anton Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 From the New World, Johann ... His debut in London, on the night of Sir Thomas Beecham's death, was the first ... ... Gittleman will lead the DPO in a musical tour of Europe's capital cities for the orchestra's annual New Year's Eve concert. Monday night's performance will include such selections as the fourth movement of Haydn's familiarly called "London" symphony ...
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