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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Triptych
Four weeks into a recent cross-country book tour, it dawned on me. Except to point my car in the direction I wanted to go, I hadn't done a single thing for myself for a month. Everywhere I'd been, other people had grown, raised, prepared, and served ... Cy Twombly's triptych "Hero and Leander" at the Pulitzer Foundation. In "Water," an exquisite exhibition filled with certifiable masterpieces, this sensuous work stood out. It may well have been the most beautiful painting shown in St. Louis this year Completing the homegrown triptych are Scottish tribal band Albannach with their 'Celtic battle drumming'. Castlegate, Aberdeen, tomorrow, gates open at 7pm; concert begins at 9pm, tickets are free www.aboutaberdeen.com/hogmanayaberdeen.php DUNDEE ... The largest and most exuberant work in the show, "I've Been Living in a Hydrogen Bomb," layers vibrant, calligraphic brushwork onto a dark background. This 10-by-22-foot triptych never dissolves into total abstraction but maintains an illusion of ... This anticipated recording and DVD of John Psathas’ magnificent concerti triptych is performed by outstanding soloists with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei. Psathas’ music has inexorable energy, is arresting and ... In a 14th-century Italian triptych attributed to Naddo Ceccarelli, for example, a tiny likeness of the archangel Gabriel is tucked into the top of the left wing almost as an afterthought. And the focus of his attention is not the giant Madonna and ... It may not look like anything he's done before, but "Inland Empire" joins "Mulholland" and the whatzit "Lost Highway" (1997) to form the strangest show-business triptych around. All three concern artists whose identities demand more than one body ... Ross, by contrast, is explicit about the sources of his unease in works like Iraq Triptych, whose abstract images of a pock-marked wall may be a metaphor for the alienation and isolation stemming from America's unhappy involvement in that nation's ... The dance floor is a Hieronymus Bosch triptych. It's not that I'm against hedonism and excess—quite the contrary, in fact. It's just that I'd rather not watch these arts practiced by a mob of unattractive chuckleheads. When "YMCA" surges through ... They include eight topographic California land- and seascapes in two bands below a large triptych of oils depicting a mountain and garden full of tide-pool creatures, succulent plants, and sea horses. Three young men, one a skateboarder with kneepads ...
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