On this night, I break the rules completely ( Read more... )

Getting in just under the wire, local-time. And, just for the hell of it, going back to The Rules, revision 1 version. (Bought this year, as many as I feel like.)

This, because I love Jill Scott, and she releases music far too seldom. And I never know when she's touring or coming to town until after she's been.

This, because somehow -- and I'm ( Read more... )

Eh. Felt like a change after all these years. Unfortunately, I didn't realize how thoroughly grandfathered my old layout was; all of the tools for editing the layout that I was used to having have now disappeared. Ah, well ( Read more... )

And, because it's the last night of the year, no rules apply. (Not that they were being well observed anyway ( Read more... )

A straight-up pop night, tonight.

First, something maybe the tiniest bit overblown. Not that I'm a big radio listener these days, but I suspect this one -- if they even tried -- had a horrible time finding traction. But, hey, I'm a sucker for herald trumpets.



And closing with something entirely unrelated, small and intimate.

So this year, thanks to columbina, I got seriously into the electroswing. There'll be a bit more later, but for now, try a couple groups I stumbled across.

First up, American swing/jazz by a German band. As one does. (I'm not entirely sure why this one falls into the "electro" side of things, but whatever.)

This one, I entirely get the whole "electro" ( Read more... )

Mostly just because I like Estelle, I like Janelle Monae, and I love this song. (Technically, falls outside the limits -- although it had been out for quite some time before I heard it -- but still. Them's the breaks.) You can safely entirely ignore the video for this one.

Also, contrary to my original plan, it looks like most of the days will ( Read more... )

I will admit to an unexpected fondness for Gin Wigmore. I suspect a chunk of the country got kind of jaded by her "Don't Stop" which got used for a Target commercial, and the part of the country that didn't get too much of that probably got quite enough of the "Man like that" Heineken/Skyfall commercial ( Read more... )

One of the things I picked up through the Alice in Nappyland weblog (along with the previously linked Yemi Alade and a type of soap that is in fact very good on the skin but which is a tad too perfumed for my tastes ( Read more... )

So, all the Kool Kidz were doing Musical Advent over on Twitter, and I decided to do something a bit different. (Not least because I Tweet not.) I decided to do something for the Twelve Days of Christmas ( Read more... )