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 White Stripes
This week's guest is the Brown Stripes, an African-American version of the White Stripes. "Ced 'n' Teri," which pumps out new Webisodes every Tuesday, is the creation of Mikey Brown, who has edited and directed dozens of short films, commercials ... The White Stripes, ``You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You're Told)'' -- Apologies to the people on the subway who had to endure me listening to this song from ``Icky Thump'' (Warner Bros/Wea) played at ear-shattering levels. There simply ... Celebs weren't afraid to go graphic this year in black and white stripes. In Vegas, Gwen Stefani walked the red carpet in a single-shoulder custom L.A.M.B. dress. What's your favorite striped look of the year? BEST OF LOOK OF THE DAY : See this year ... Bands with notable new albums released this year include the Deadstring Brothers with "Silver Mountain" (left), Kings of Leon with "Because of the Times" (above), the White Stripes with "Icky Thump" (below right), Bettye LaVette with "The Scene of ... What agony whittling a long list of good music down to a mere top 10. Yet ignoring the really predictable out there — Ick! Another White Stripes album! — I was left with some truly adventurous and fun stuff to recommend. 1. "Kala," M.I.A ... The White Stripes nixed their first trip to Idaho (and the rest of their tour.) The Smashing Pumpkins pulled out because of lousy ticket sales. Another uncool trend? Bands who drive through but don't gig. (See my blog about Rilo Kiley.) Best New Local ... The White Stripes, "Icky Thump" -- The ex-Detroiters are so consistently thrilling they run the risk of being taken for granted. Take notice: "Icky Thump" is their most consistent, rewarding effort to date. 8. Jarvis Cocker, "Jarvis" -- Britpop ... The White Stripes returned -- to record stores, not to Detroit -- with "Icky Thump," the first album recorded outside of the duo's cozy hometown environs. The album retained the rich, bluesy sound that has become their inimitable stamp, and it ended ... By far, the best bits involve Dewey's encounters with such rock royalty as a surly, mush-mouthed Elvis, enacted with gusto by White Stripes lead singer Jack White, and a bickering brood of Beatles, played by Jack Black, Jason Schwartzman, Justin Long ... Joni Mitchell and Paul McCartney went for coffee and sold their albums through Starbucks; the White Stripes toured the Canadian north as no major rock band ever has; and the Dixie Chicks got major love for what I still think was a fairly ...
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