Funk Babblings

nontacitare is on her way out of town (or into town, for many of you) for the weekend to go to an academic conference. I'll have the house to myself until Sunday evening.

What will I do?

Well, one thing I'll probably do is listen to all the new music that just arrived for me. Last weekend I paid off a bunch of bills, and decided I could afford to catch up on my indie-music wishlist that has grown so much in the past ten weeks (though some of this had been pending for a couple years now). The tunes started arriving yesterday, about 10½ hours' worth so far....

Yesterday brought a nice big box from CDBaby. About half was stuff that had sounded good on a sampler CD they sent with a previous order a couple years ago, and half was stuff that I just discovered recently. Quite a varied selection of sounds here.
Cherrybomb - Living Room Sessions
Gidgets Ga Ga - Don't Boris
Jonathan Coulton - Smoking Monkey
Jonathan Coulton - Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow
s.e.k.s. - Life In Venus
Jettison Red - Clear As Day
Jettison Red - Travel By Telephone
Alix Olson - Built Like That
Sophia - Sophia
Sophia - Start Anew
The Mot!ves Project - So Much More (forget Marley, my reggae has to be dancehall)
Gramophone - Gramophone
bonus freebie: Brother Sean - Just Hold Still (they threw it in, so far the one song I've heard didn't impress me)

Also yesterday, these came from the Bandtrax store:
Popjoy - Anyone Who Cares
X Is X - Concrete Reality

In the mail today, from SayHerName.com, were two CDs from the east-coast and west-coast halves of the Too Much Joy alumni association:
Surface Wound - debut EP
Wonderlick - Topless Demos

And I have about seven or eight more discs on the way from three other places. I'm also still awaiting a nice big memory card to hold everything for playing on my Lyra MP3 player.

More excitement is on the way next week.....