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 Weakerthans
6) The Weakerthans, "Reunion Tour" Maybe it's my experiences as a new pet owner, but Iget a little misty-eyed during one moment of the song "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure."The story of a cat who has run away, the song slowly builds to a wall ... Weakerthans Reunion Tour: Indie-rock poet laureate John K. Samson pens wryly melancholy odes to lovelorn curlers, brokenhearted bus drivers and runaway kitties. If only real reunion tours were this satisfying ... And what a past Collett has had: responsible for the Radio Monday nights in Toronto, he oversaw through means direct or otherwise the ascent of the likes of The Weakerthans and, latterly, Broken Social Scene, who invited Collett to play with them ... 6) The Weakerthans, "Reunion Tour" Maybe it's my experiences as a new pet owner, but Iget a little misty-eyed during one moment of the song "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure."The story of a cat who has run away, the song slowly builds to a wall ... Canada has some solid songsmiths—The Weakerthans, Feist, and Barenaked Ladies spring immediately to mind—and all three have joined the Canadian Music Creators Coalition. It's a group that in its short life has already decried CRIA, denounced the ... World Cafe , December 5, 2007 - John K. Samson formed The Weakerthans in Manitoba 10 years ago. The former Propagandhi member had left his punk band to start a publishing company, but he wanted to create an outlet to perform once again. The ... The Weakerthans Reunion Tour - Anti-/epitaph Filter Grade: 86% by Jonathan Falcone | 10.23.2007 The Weakerthans have always been masters of certain traits: soaring guitar lines, melodies that catch the heart with momentum, and minute observations ... It’s hard not to tap your toes to the music, which falls somewhere between Mraz and Rob Thomas, with a touch of Barenaked Ladies quirkiness and fun but the intelligence and subtlety of The Weakerthans. Like most struggling, young musicians, it’s ... Punk rock institutions in Canada are few and far between. This fact is exemplified by the cross-country bar-band dominance of Winnipeg, Manitoba’s the Weakerthans , who were forged in a prairie punk fire (John K. Samson, the lead singer and ... Samson (The Weakerthans) is a big fan of Karen Solie's poems. There must be many others. I'm guessing it's the confluence of similar but varied disciplines or kinds of writing. We take from them what we need and they use us in kind. It's good. It's ...
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