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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U.S. Bombs
U.S. officials have long suspected Iran of seeking to build nuclear bombs, although the Iranian government repeatedly has denied doing so. A U.S. intelligence report in November concluded that Iran suspended any nuclear weapons effort in 2003. The ... Map locates Kut, Iraq, where U.S. troops targeted Mahdi militia, killing 11; 1c x 2 inches; 46.5 mm x 50.8 mm BAGHDAD -- U.S. military forces killed 11 members of a Mahdi Army splinter group southeast of Baghdad early Thursday, American officials ... A Japanese newspaper reported Thursday that the U.S. and North Korea disagree on the amount of plutonium — a key ingredient for atomic bombs — that the communist nation has produced, a figure expected to be included in the declaration. The ... WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (IPS) - Human-rights and humanitarian groups are hailing provisions of a major appropriations bill approved by Congress this week that bans the export of most U.S.-made cluster bombs and U.S. military aid for foreign governments ... Two victims of cluster munitions in Ta Oy Province, Laos. WASHINGTON, Jul 20 (IPS) - At the end of June, a few members of the U.S. Congress made a discreet move to limit this country's exports of cluster bombs, a weapon that has been used around the ... Turkey bombs suspected Kurdish hideouts By Ellen Knickmeyer and Joshua Partlow The Washington Post ... Both the Iraqi government and the U.S. military each have detained more than 20,000 prisoners since the U.S.-led invasion of ... ... good sense, no one in the Bush administration has begun doing victory laps over the good news from Iraq. Yes, the numbers of U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians dying there have fallen sharply in the last six months. So have the number of roadside bombs ... Two roadside bombs kill civilian, wound 10 others in Baghdad ... Sporadic attacks continue in Baghdad despite the U.S. and Iraqi officials frequently announced drop of violence in the ... However, a Japanese newspaper reported Thursday that the U.S. and North Korea disagree on the amount of plutonium — a key ingredient for atomic bombs — that the communist nation has produced. The regional daily Tokyo Shimbun quoted unnamed U.S ... U.S. military spokesman Rear Admiral Greg Smith said Turkish authorities had informed U.S. forces in advance of plans to fly a reconnaissance mission over Iraq, but U.S. forces were not immediately aware of whether the aircraft had opened fire. ...
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