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 Pogues
Sometimes we cover: . . . ourselves in plastic wrap. As well as play "Dirty Old Town" by the Pogues. Other band names in the running: Box of Puppies. Most treasured instrument: Sierra double-neck pedal steel guitar by Harley James. (Un)official ... It's the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl doing " Fairytale of New York ," and it's the saddest, most heartbreaking Christmas song you'll ever hear. I was listening to it all throughout the days leading up to Christmas Eve, when I made the block-long ... The melancholy-tinged The Good I Know You Know and the Pogues-like Home for Supper showcase H&H's folk and Celtic affinities, respectively, as well as Hoots' inclusive philosophy. But perhaps the most personal track is Forks and Knives, which, Hoots ... Traditionally, it’s Slade from whom it’s impossible to escape at Christmas. That song shadows us for weeks, recedes, then returns the next year to haunt us: a seasonal lyrical bogeyman. This Christmas another song has superseded it: the Pogues ... A few of the classics resurfaced in the pop charts, notably The Pogues, Fairytale of New York. And this year is the first where it has been possible for a song available only for download to enter the charts, meaning a host of other Christmas classics ... They are hoping desperately that Fairytale of New York, the duet between her and the Pogues frontman, will be number one this Christmas, 20 years after it was first released. "It's always a little sad, of course it is," she concedes. "We ... X Factor winner Leon Jackson has fought off competition from The Pogues festive classic to claim the Christmas number one. The Scottish star's debut single When You Believe out-sold its rivals when 275,000 copies were snapped up this week - more than ... Friday, August 17 – Pogues members Andrew Ranken and Spider Stacy played at the opening night of the Randall Rootz Festival, organised in memory of talented city percussionist Mark Randall, who died of cancer in February. Mark had been a member of ... The only other cover I have done is 'Fairy Tale In New York' by the Pogues. That's my Christmas song and will no doubt be rearing its ugly head for any Christmas shows this year. What's the future hold release-wise? I see Alex from the Holy Roar ... X Factor winner Leon Jackson is at the top of the Irish singles chart for a second week with his debut song 'When You Believe'. The next four tracks in the chart also remain static, with Leona Lewis' 'Bleeding Love', the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl's ...
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