The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
|
01/23/2008 09:57 AM
|
|
Alicia Keys
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/20/2008 09:52 PM
|
|
Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/16/2008 08:53 PM
|
|
Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/15/2008 08:45 PM
|
|
Tom Baxter - Skybound
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/14/2008 04:54 PM
|
|
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/13/2008 03:16 PM
|
|
Chrisette Michele
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/12/2008 02:31 PM
|
|
Sara Bareilles
|
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, [...]
|
|
01/11/2008 02:27 PM
|
|
Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
|
“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 [...]
|
|
01/07/2008 04:26 PM
|
|
Kanye vs Beyonce
|
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 [...]
|
|
01/07/2008 01:42 PM
|
|
Fogerty’s Creative Revival
|
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 [...]
|
|
|
U.K.
LONDON -- The British housing market continued to slow as the volume of new mortgage lending hit a 28-month low in November. The British Bankers Association said new mortgage lending rose just £4.28 billion, or about $8.5 billion, down from a rise ... Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. stocks gained, led by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe's biggest oil company, and Anglo American Plc as crude oil, platinum and copper prices climbed. HSBC Holdings Plc led declining shares. The benchmark FTSE 100 Index rose ... Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. mortgage approvals dropped 44 percent in November from a year earlier as higher borrowing costs and concern that home prices have further to fall deterred buyers, a British Bankers' Association report showed. Banks granted ... A.M. Best Co. has taken various rating actions on the Public Data Ratings (pd ratings) of several U.K. life insurance companies and pension fund managers. (For a complete list of ratings, see list below). Pd ratings reflect a quantitative analysis of ... Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. mining stocks gained, led by Rio Tinto Group, Anglo American Plc, and Xstrata Plc as metal prices climbed in London. HSBC Holdings Plc led declining shares. The benchmark FTSE 100 Index rose 15.8, or 0.2 percent, to 6,495 ... In the physical bullion market, the spot price of gold rose as high as $830.05 an ounce, the highest since November 26, as U.K. markets resumed trading after a two-day break for Christmas. By 2045 GMT, it was trading at $824.70/825.50, against the ... Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Debenhams Plc and HMV Group Plc cut prices by as much as 70 percent on the day after Christmas, pulling in U.K. shoppers weighed down by record debt. Debenhams, the U.K.'s second-largest department-store chain, reduced prices ... Talisman Energy Inc., which produces oil and gas in the U.K. North Sea, added 21 cents to C$18.24. Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX CN) Agrium Inc. (AGU CN) Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS CN) Canadian Oil Sands Trust (COS-U CN) Goldcorp Inc. (G CN ... Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. airport workers began talks today in an attempt to avert strikes planned for January at London Heathrow, Europe's busiest terminal, and other BAA Ltd. airfields. Representatives of the Unite union and airport operator BAA ... Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. natural gas for same-day delivery fell to its lowest price in almost three weeks as forecasts of fuel shipments exceeded projected demand, according to estimates from National Grid Plc, the network operator. Gas for same ...
|
