Brandon's Buzz

“Watch for this international man of music as he continues to spread love and positive vibrations wherever he goes.”

— a South Africa-based spammer writing under the moniker of Artists Paper, whose primary sentiments (and downright elegant turns of phrase, all of which got tangled up in the Buzz’s spam filter several days ago) I found far too lovely to flush down the wormhole forever.

Norah Jones — “Jesus, Etc. (Sad, Sad Songs)”
(from The Fall [Deluxe Edition]) —

Wonders still don’t cease: just when you thought this much-Grammyed critics’ darling (and human insomnia cure) had all but entirely abandoned her sense of humor, she unleashes this, a frisky, footloose cover of an underrated Wilco classic. If you’re anything like me, you’ll find that slightly flirty growl in her voice as bewitching as spit-shined sin, and if you’re anything at all like me, you’ll wonder where in hell she’s been hiding it all this time.