Heather's Hotlist #6

Posted by Heather Larson May 29, 2007

It's the long-awaited return of my Hotlist, so without further ado, I give you Heather's Hotlist #5.

<b>Peter Gabriel Launching We7</b>

Music downloads that are free because they contain commercials that eventually expire…we’ll see if it catches on. Music was never supposed to be so terribly commercial, but we all have to pay the bills.

Check out We7.com: http://www.we7.com/

Paul McCartney’s Album Is Almost Out

The marketing machine is in fair rotation already promoting the heck out of Sir Paul McCartney’s first album on the Starbuck’s record label. The big day is coming, so mark it – June 7. That’s the day you can go to Starbucks and say, “I’d like a half-caff soy, chai, caramel, mocha with whip and Sir Paul please.”

Coffee and music always went together, I won’t deny that. I heard a great many jazz records in my youth of being a barista at Mission Coffees and More in Fremont, CA. I heard some great stuff I had never heard before at Lux in downtown Phoenix the other day. And that’s the way it’s supposed to be. You break music in a good, independent coffee shop. Paul McCartney needs no breaking. He and this little band he was in called The Beatles broke us all in decades ago…

The Pharoahe Monch Remix of Amy Winehouse’s Rehab

I haven’t heard it on mainstream radio, but that’s exactly where it should be, save for Monch’s many cusswords and drug references. Anything that makes fun of the current sexiness of skinny white starlets checking into rehab is a friend of mine.

Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry

Usually I am annoyed with her because she’s overexposed a la J. Lo in the early 2000’s. But this one is dang catchy, and I can’t resist catchy. Being as it was the first time I’d actually heard her sing, I was shocked to learn this was the My Humps Fergie. First time I heard this song, I thought it was a new artist! Kudos for Fergie for pulling out a good single in which we can actually hear her sing for once, right here and watch the video.