There is an 18 second clip on YouTube advertising a new single for
Despoina Vandi. See the video at - DESPINA VANDI - NEW SONG 2010 .

We just realized our D'Sound page lists Jony Sjo as the drummer.
I am not sure when we made that mistake... our bio information is correct. Correcting that now .

Watching the usa vs canada womens hockey game...

We have the latest hits by a few groups on the list.
The list for February 21,2010 on our Audio page
has 30 songs, 1 hour and 54 minutes in length.
We started out with the hope of making a 'light rock' list similar to the Jan.10,2008 playlist. Yet we had too many rock groups to ignore -
including Total and the new discovery; the Twiins.

The list includes our favorite songs from all the albums we are listening to the last few weeks. The last 15-16 songs we did our best to include some great vocal performances. Because these people can sing very well. then we had to include some Kristina in the group.
I just love some of her more creative songs. hope you enjoy the songs!

We have spent the last few days watching olympic curling, and hockey.
If you are interested; Vera Brezhneva's YouTube channel has uploaded
many new short clips. Anna Sedokova's channel also has added many new
short clips. And Anna Semenovich's YouTube channel also has many new clips.
We are not saying that these accounts are the actual women,
we are just saying they have tons of new material. Enjoy!

We noticed over the weekend that D'Sound's new album "Starts and Ends" is now on Amazon... but it is 'currently unavailable' .
Hopefully they will have mp3 or CDs up there before summer.

We have just updated the appearance of our search page . While we were messing around with it,
we searched Marina Berezhnaya, and we found a photo gallery from
Anastacia's birthday at MSN.ru .
Really good photos there,,,

And we also realized that we linked to 'hotcharts.ru' instead of
tophit.ru where the group uploaded the song. So we accidentally linked
to the 'recorded from the radio' version. sorry for that....

The Diskoteka Avaria in Vsegda Leto video we linked to yesterday is
actually a new video from late January '10 .

We just downloaded a collection of greatest hits of Tose Proeski.
It's not an official album. Someone just put together 16 great Tose
songs , and called it 'the best of tose proeski' .
Despite that, it is a nice collection.

Up next, we need to work on our cleaverb.org site pages and calendar.
Actually, we want to remove the org calendar, but we do not have anything else to link to. Yet. have a great day!

They are back. I guess we will never know what happened.
We had hoped they were fixing their site: the forum doesn't work.
And used to be you could click on a thumbnail picture in a news story,
and it would open a larger image. Now you get an error.
Blest.ru must have had a change in the web master dept ?
That would explain the lapses. They still have one of the 'best sites'
in our favorite artists.
Our top 25 could change soon. As it stands , Ani Lorak and Nelly Furtado are sitting in the theoretical 24th and 25th positions.
IF Yulia Kovalchuk released an album, she will be joining the top25.
We already love the songs she has released.
Zeljko is close to the top 25 also.
Vera Brezhneva and Anna Sedokova have good songs , but neither seems
to be interested in releasing album in the near future.
Alena Vinnitskaya has some excellent albums, and she is definitely
one of our top25, if only she had a new album out.

We also have started a new section for Tribute pages. That is where we are placing the 'other' artists' . For the year, we hope to add page
for DaBuzz, and possibly Mr Credo, Sheryl Crow, Spice Girls,
the Presets, Tanya Bulanova, etc.

We hope to update our front page either tonight or saturday.
Need to get rid of that text. Yeah, we goofed. I do not think anyone,
nobody saw it. But just in case, we thought best to leave the notice
up for 24 hours minimum. We do not want to mention what was said,
we mis-translated an article . Thought something was going to happen.
It was a negative statement. And we forgot the negative part...

We have updated the links to music videos in 20 of our
top 25 artists. It seems that UMG is deleting many videos from "official" artists pages... Nelly Furtado had every video removed.
It brings up the question in my mind, are we sharing creative, artists
material, or are just plain exploiting them ? You decide.
...........
The new Blest song that leaked is worth a listen. You can find pages
of links to mp3s of the song. Simply go to google, or bing, yahoo! ,
type in " blestyaschie - shar " without the quotes .. hit search.

I can't say how the song would be accepted in Russian mainstream music..
but the freshness of Marina's voice is exciting!
And we do not promote 'illegal' activity ,like stealing songs and uploading them. did it really happen that way ? i don't know.

Blest.ru is no longer found. We have been having trouble with many
russian websites this week. apparently an undersea cable was damaged in the middle east, and possibly causes some problems.
I just checked the "whois" data, and Blest.ru , the domain name expired on February 8, 2010. Possibly they could be switching to
the new cyrillic .рф or even .su . But we think they just let it lapse. OOPS! Or maybe they intentionally let it go down to update
graphics, seeing they have a new member ?

PS. Their server is in the US, so i should not have any problems with
'undersea cables' any where in the world...
Now they will probably have to wait 3 days for the DNS to update to
their name, whether they changed hosts or not. I will check their Facebook page to see if they have been on today.