Firstly let us wish you a supastar happy Christmas. Hope you've all had a lovely, cosey, happy family day. Best wishes and love to you all.

Then we must touch on the sadness.

R.I.P. James Brown.

A man who has touched all our lives. A man who changed the face of music totally and completely. Seriously, music... good music would not sound as it does if James Brown had never been. Surely he was supposed to live forever... well his legacy, his back cat... he's given us enough to listen to for all our remaining days.

If anyone needs a rest it must be the Hardest Working Man in Showbusiness. We salute you. We thank you. We praise you... We'll miss you.

Peace out James Brown... Thank you.

Picked up the first record from The Tribunes today. Quality sounds and words in a jazz poetry stylie, wiith something to say. Worth checking.

And they've also provided music for a CD supporting a film called Injustice which from reading about looks like a very strong, important docufilm about unlawful killings in police custody...

Interview with Gil Scott Heron from the late 90s or sometime...

Say goodbye to your productivity.

Cannonball Adderley site.

Kanye West being a cock...

Count Bassd's site is very wicked. Good archive of stuff and links etc...

Very nice and good freebie mixtape from Soul Sociedad

Now actual real cheap vinyl... and cds. Ubiquity Records sale, $10 a thing!

Cheapo vinyl...

Sorry to be blatently rude here, but what the hey! Can this woman have any more differing opinions going on inside her head...

Wixked new video for Percee P with loads of bad footage of NY circ 1979.

Now you might need a bit of time for this lot... R Kelly - Trapped in the closet. A 12 part mini-series of videos based around a soap-opera story line (think Day's of our lives') sung/narrated by Mr Kelly. Very funny, stupid, odd, ridiculous... If you do nothing else, check the end of episode 9 and the start of 10... Who could that be hiding under the sink...?