I'm going to step back from the whole Zambian thing for a minute and tell you a guilty pleasure of mine made possible by the highspeed internet connect at my house here: Audioblogs. 2007 has brought a surge of surfing for me. I don't know if it's my desire to keep up with American culture from a far or just a natural step I was bound to take, but I've been bookmarking mad sites of late. I think Nick Nogrady introduced my to Soulsides about five years ago. For me, and I don't think I'm alone in this, soulsides is one of the Godfathers of music blogs. Oliver Wang always comes correct and the site is a veritable library of American soul. Plus it's here I recently got educated on google's new blog searching tool, which basically allows you to find songs you might want if they're on the net.

Back in the summer of 2005, I couldn't get enough Southwest-Connection which was basically only dirty south rap like Bun B and Purple Ribbon Allstars, and a lot of semi obscure hip hop from the South.

Right now my favorite site is Discobelle. I pretty much only listen to music from this Swedish blog right now. God bless the Scandinavians. They get Djs from around the world to send them mixes and shit. The Djs do a lot of mashups where they're taking hip hop, electronica, indie, everything and doing big things with it. I think I'm addicted. Discobelle also posted my favorite song for January, "Mr. Jones" by Mike Jones, the song is awesome.

The cyber thing about all these blogs is their interconnectedness. Each blog has links to 50 other audioblogs with all sorts of music and of course opinions. Like when I found My Gay Husband's badass remixes. So any site you go to is just a gateway, and once you step through it...

A few other notables for me: Analog Giant, and the music review, Coke Machine Glow.

If you don't know, now you know.