Happy New Year! A cheery, upbeat, uplifting song to kickstart your 2011 in the right way:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11948391
This looks really cool. Maybe a bit gimmicky, but someone has come up with the idea of having an album in a badge. You wear the badge, displaying the artwork and your love of a band, and you just plug in and play. I want one now!

Actually, posting that parrot singing a Drowning Pool song has made me remember how much I actually liked a lot of nu-metal….and now I feel rather old as it was more than a decade ago! Anyway, here are five favourite nu-metal songs that have sprung to mind - love those brutal beats:

Bodies - Drowning […]

I have had a song lyric floating around my head this lunchtime….’open up your eyes’….I couldn’t remember which rock band it was by - I was renowned as a teenager at college for being ‘the girl who likes all the obscure American rock bands’….as I started to go to YouTube, the name popped into my […]

My friend Gill just sent me the link to this song and video - it’s a song we both adored when we worked together at Pulse Rated.
You *must* watch this:

Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance