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 Standells
Key bands: the Kingsmen, the Standells, the Fleshtones, the Hives. Glam rock: Rock with fashion sense and a bag full of Maybelline cosmetics. After the glamour-deficient earthiness of the hippies, some formerly nondescript singers and songwriters (and ... The hearkening back is no problem, though, because "Hate to Say" was itself an exercise in reclaiming the garage rock of '60s bands such as the Seeds or the Standells. The era's simple, fuzzed-out guitar riffs and brash, shouting-to-be-heard vocals ... Of course, Jonathan Papelbon was the constant presence to lock up a contest in the win column and ensure The Standells would be blasting from the Fenway Park speakers at any second. It would be a crime to deny the glue veterans their proper due. Jason ... When the Red Sox win, Kaiser's crew plays three songs -- "Tessie" by the Dropkick Murphys, "Dirty Water" by The Standells and "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night. Why "Dirty Water"? "It's all about the Charles River and Boston," Kaiser said ... By midday, even with the Standells' "I love that dirty water ... oh, Boston you're my home!" still seeming to echo throughout the empty concourses from the night before, the 2007 World Series logo already had been painted onto the ... I’m confident that the symbolic lyrics of The Standells’ “Love that Dirty Water” will blast through the Fenway Park speakers at the conclusion of Game 7. Don’t ask me why. Don’t ask me how. I don’t know. I have no reason. And it ... One that comes to mind is “Dirty Water,” a 1966 ditty by The Standells that honors the city and its formerly polluted Charles River and Boston Harbor. At least we’re not the only ones with a history of polluted waterways. “Cleveland Rocks ... Before the game, the 1960s rock group the Standells played the national anthem, followed by a flyover from the 158th Fighter Wing from the National Guard in Burlington, Vt. The Standells then played their big hit, "Dirty Water," a song heard after ... The Standells, the band who made “Dirty Water” in the 1960s and have lived to see it become the Red Sox victory anthem at Fenway, will perform the pop hit this evening during the pre-game ceremonies, then will do the National Anthem. • NESN ... Festivities at City Hall Plaza will include live music performances featuring several groups, including Dropkick Murphys, The Meanest of Times and the Standells of Dirty Water fame. more» Red Sox open playoffs next Wednesday against Angels BOSTON (AP ...
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