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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Album: What A Wonderful Christmas
We forget that when ‘‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’’ with its would-be angel and its simple sense of good and evil, was released in 1946, the reviewers derided it. But the saps liked it and it has become a Christmas classic. In politics, I yearn ... The scene was reminiscent of the classic Christmas movie, "It's a Wonderful Life." George Bailey, played by Jimmy Stewart, is a good, decent man who has spent his entire life in selfless service, always placing the needs of others before his own ... There's a polarity to Christmas movies, a chasm separating the likes of "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Bad Santa." Into the breach comes "Fred Claus," neither holiday feast nor irreverent foul but something in between. This one grafts the silly and ... Where are you going to use all those new tools you got for Christmas? Think workbench. Whether you build your own from 2-by-4s and plywood or buy one, it must be sturdy enough to support all kinds of projects. Need to know: There are several kinds of ... Lady Hillary was in good health - "amazing for her age" - and was holding things together despite being widowed for a second time. Before her husband was admitted to hospital they enjoyed a wonderful family Christmas, with Sir Ed "up and about and ... The ballet itself was more modestly successful until the mid-20th Century, when George Balanchine's version became a Christmas holiday staple on a par with sentimental blockbusters such as "A Christmas Carol" and "It's a Wonderful Life." Now "The ... Christmas day nearly ended in tragedy for a Landshipping family, after 86-year-old Joan Crowther was knocked unconscious by ... This is a wonderful machine, we will never be without another." Mr Crowther agrees: "You don't know when a carbon monoxide ... The Christmas season is a wonderful time of having fun with family and friends, along with giving gifts to the people we care about. The gifts reflect the heart of God, who so loved the world that He gave the greatest gift of all; His only begotten ... Editor: I think children are teaching tools our Heavenly Father has given us to teach us about him. We have come through the Christmas season and no doubt gave some wonderful gifts to our children. Sometime these gifts are given with great sacrifice ... Christmas poinsettias were given to Jackie Haigler and Debra Tarbutton in gratitude for all the wonderful meals this year. New members for November and December were Jamie Kitchens, Julianne Dodge, Kathy Kistler, Ann Hurst and Paula Stewart. The next ...
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