VH1’s Top 100 Greatest Artists Of All-Time

A few weeks back, VH1’s Labor Day weekend special treat was to unveil their new Top 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time list. My husband and I watched in dismay as all sorts of weird choices were revealed throughout the hours of the countdown. I mean, Def Leppard? N.W.A.?? L.L. Cool J??? Tupac and Biggie???? Public …

Updates + WNHUs Playlist Updates for September 2010

To celebrate the blog marking its one-year mark this month, I looked back on those early entries and was greatly dismayed to find that many of the youtube.com videos I had linked to throughout the past 12 months have been taken down. The Video of the Day (and many video playlists I’ve created) have become …

Detroit 1-8-7: A New Show With A Great Soundtrack!

I love when the minds that make television take time to remember the great power of the soundtrack. A good soundtrack can make a bad show palatable (NBC’s Chuck), and a great show perfect (NBC’s Mercy). ABC’s new cop drama Detroit 1-8-7 is, of course, going to make it to my desk just because I …

Hiatus – Computer In The Shop!

Today’s picture is courtesy of a google image search for “clipart computer broken”…I THOUGHT I would find a useful and ridiculously cheesy illustration of a computer monitor with bandages and a thermometer sticking out of its mouth or something, but this film advertisement seemed so much less approps. Hi guys, just a quick shout out …

The Demise Of Paste Magazine, print version

I don’t know what compelled me to surf onto pastemagazine.com at 5:04pm on September 1st, but that decision to browse soon had me in tears: at 5pm that day, Joshua Jackson, editor-in-chief of the culture mag for over 8 years, announced the suspension of Paste’s printed version. Though it seems the online branch of Paste …

Blog Updates Day!

No song of the day today because I’ve been busy readying some new pages for the blog, some new playlists for the end of summer, and sorting through the list of ideas and aspirations I had for this here blog. I’ve been working on increasing functionality and web presence for the blog by connecting it …

Leave Of Absence – Wedding Time!

Sorry to say I’m taking a 5 week hiatus from the blog to get ready for my impending, out-of-state nuptials! Planning a wedding in another state has left me too busy for the blog right now, but I have so many songs and artists to talk about that I just can’t wait to get back …

I’M BACK! New Soul by Yael Naim

SONG OF THE DAY “New Soul” by Yael Naïm (Yael Naïm, Tôt ou tard Records, France, and Atlantic Records, USA, 2007). Written by Yael Naïm. INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia) – She is a Franco-Israeli singer-songwriter of Tunisian Jewish parents. – She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit single “New …