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 Was
When that hero of Anglo-Saxon history, Hereward the Wake, staged his legendary defiance of the Normans in the 1080s, his stronghold lay within the deepest depths of the Cambridgeshire fens, their impenetrable mix of woodland, mire and mere providing ... An Indonesian housemaid has been executed in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of killing her employer, the Saudi interior ministry has said. The woman was beheaded in the southern Asir province, in what was the second execution in the country in ... A gang of forgers was jailed yesterday for producing and supplying thousands of fake passports and identity documents. The four men, all from eastern Europe, ran what was effectively a fake document factory from a two-bedroom flat in Barnet, north ... With my distinctive pommie accent, my opinion was often sought on the power struggle between the Indian and Australian cricket teams as I launched myself on Sydney's party circuit. With temperatures comfortably above 25C, even in the shadow of the ... A few weeks ago, Chinese and Indian troops held a joint military exercise in which they stormed a mocked-up terrorist training camp. Mr Singh (R) is paying his first visit to China since he came to power Soldiers "wiped out terrorists" and "rescued ... This week's Consumer Electronics Show was a technology fair on an unparalleled scale: 140,000 delegates from more than 140 countries visited Las Vegas to get a glimpse of the gadgets of the future. And yet there was something peculiar about CES 2008 ... On a big climb there usually comes a point when you are faced with a decision: either turn back or crank up the commitment level and stick your neck out. For Edmund Hillary that moment came at about 9.30 on the morning of May 29, 1953, when he and ... Somewhere in the south-west, unridden and hidden from public view, are the most infamous motorbikes in Britain. When the decision was taken to ground the cargo ship MSC Napoli off the coast of Devon a year ago because of rough weather, 103 of the ... Once upon a time, there was a little girl who loved music. She hated school, where she was bullied, was stricken by a series of illnesses and resorted to self-harm. Then, when she was 14, she put her feelings into song for her friends. A CD found its ... I spend most of my time in the kitchen. I'm always cooking. When I go to see my parents I'm the same; they don't ask me to but I just start cooking. I cook a lot in friends' houses as well. They'll say, 'Come over, we'll have something to eat,' and ...
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