Jai Paul

I think I'm still drunk from last night. In fact, I know I am. I think my shirt may even be on backwards, and I don't care. I have no idea how I didn't puke after drinking half a bottle of tequila.

In other news, I signed up for spotify, finally. It's still not available in South Africa, but I was just home and got all signed up while I was there. And I've purchased a VPN for my current trip to China, so I can fool the internet into thinking I'm still in America, or anywhere else really, and still use it. It's fun stuff. I'm a fan. I made a playlist of all the songs I could find that I blogged about in 2012. I'll probably do the same thing this year as I go.

Which brings us to the music. Jai Paul is pretty much a genius. Which makes it even more infuriating that he has only released 2 songs ever. BTSTU is the better one, if you ask me. But Jasmine is also pretty amazing. Here are both of them.

 

HAIM

Once again I'm sitting at the airport in Dubai. This time on my way to China for the first time in a year. Very excited about the people (friends, not the locals...) and the food. Not so excited about the work. Very much not so excited about the weather.

As it turns out, I'm here at the airport for about 8 hours. I thought it was going to be 3, but no such luck. Which means I get to shower. But it also means there is a very high risk that I'm going to go buy a watch just to kill time. Not that I'm ever opposed to buying watches, but I should maybe not buy it after spending so much money in the US and Mexico over the last 3 weeks. We'll see. I make no promises.

In order to put off the watch buying, I'll blog. And maybe upload photos to Facebook, which I'm about 9 months behind on.

One of my favorite sources of new music is the BBC's "Sound of..." series. They announced the shortlist of 15 artists a few weeks ago. I had a listen to a few, liked some, others not so much. But now they've announced the winners and I'm pretty excited about some of them. The top 5 is actually the most exciting top 5 I've seen in the "Sound of..." series. The longlist and shortlist always contain artists from all across the board, and this year is no exception, but this year's artists are all ones I've been waiting to hear more from for a while now. And the top artist is no exception.

The winner this year is Haim, a group of 3 sisters who are awesome. Really freaking awesome. And they're form L.A. And they've toured with Florence & The Machine. And actually, I think they could be Jewish. They haven't released an album yet, but they've got a couple EPs and a few awesome songs. And Forever is definitely the best.





Surprisingly, all of the artists who I'd heard of in the longlist were the ones chosen for the top 5. I've been waiting a long time for more AlunaGeorge also. And recently blogged about Laura Mvula, who's pretty fantastic and has an album coming out in the next few months.