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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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Ashkenazy returns to Liverpool to conduct the European Union Youth Orchestra at Philharmonic Hall March 28. It was in 1967 that Ashkenazy made his celebrated defection to the West from the Soviet Union on the steps of Liverpool's Adelphi ... Vladimir Ashkenazy returns to Liverpool to conduct the European Union Youth Orchestra at Philharmonic Hall March 28. It was in 1967 that Ashkenazy made his celebrated defection to the West from the Soviet Union on the steps of Liverpool's Adelphi ... Vladimir Ashkenazy. Decca Originals. A reissue that combines all the appealing virtuosic preludes, full of lyricism and drama, on one CD. A very appealing and romantic CD. A basic for all collections. Scarlatti, 15 Sonatas. Andras Schiff, Decca ... Mr. Einojuhani Rautavaara's birthday celebration on ART+ on KDRT included interviews with conductors Mr. Vladimir Ashkenazy and Mr. Leif Segerstam (Helsinki Philharmonic) as well as pianist Lauara Mikkola and Karvonen Films. - December 17, 2007 ART ... Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy's 1964 recital with Chopin's Scherzo No. 4 and Nocturne in Op. 62, No. 1, as well as Debussy's "Isle Joyeuse" and Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit." Decca's "The Originals." This budget-priced CD is a wonderfully planned program ... ... conductors Otto Klemperer, Sir John Barbirolli, Eugene Goossens, Rafael Kubelik and Walter Susskind, violinists Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin, cellists Mstislav Rostropovich and Jacqueline du Pré, pianists Daniel Barenboim and Vladimir Ashkenazy. ... With this sudden onset of craving for piano music, he began to buy recordings and became especially enamored of a Vladimir Ashkenazy recording of Chopin favorites — the Military Polonaise, the Winter Wind Étude, the Black Key Étude, the A-flat ... In addition, Nikolaeva died during a solo recital in San Francisco, but not before she had declared Lugansky to the "the next one" in a line of Russian pianists who included Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yefim Bronfman, Vladimir Horowitz and Anton Rubenstein. ... ... New Yorker earlier this year - Sacks tells of Cicoria, a previously unmusical 42-year-old struck by lightning while standing in a phone booth who became possessed with "an insatiable desire to listen to piano music," particularly a Vladimir Ashkenazy ... There's also a recording of Helene Grimaud in the "Emperor" Concerto, and veteran Vladimir Ashkenazy has a new set of the "Diabelli" Variations, plus a DVD showcasing him in all five concertos in the ¤'70s. But it's not just Beethoven on the ...
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