Yesterday, Amelia G was talking about the current unexpected void in the musical landscape; the extinction of the midlist or moderately popular specialty acts and the related collapse of what should be vibrant tribal cultural genres, given what would seem to be green pastures of self publishing opportunities. Serendipitously, I just received an email from our long time friend and Blue Blood contributor Justice Howard containing lots of capitol letters and an impressive collection of exclamation points, all communicating her excitement over the cool new single released by the legendary Grace Jones. “Corporate Cannibal” is the first release off her forthcoming album Hurricane, set to be released October 27th by the venerable Wall of Sound. If this is a taste of what is to come, I might just get excited about music again myself (or just move to Europe).

Grace is set to begin her tour in the UK and headline the independent music festival Secret Garden Party, performing along with Morcheeba, who I really enjoy, the Shout Out Louds, who I also enjoy because I have kind of poofy taste in music sometimes, Sons And Daughters and a load of other really cool bands and performers. Be sure to check out the Secret Garden Party website as well, it’s really quite cool and kinda fun to play with in a favorite children’s pop-up book kind of way.

In anticipation of the album, Grace Jones will also be pre-releasing singles on her Grace Jones TV Youtube channel, and I was so pleased and entertained with this that I felt that I wanted to share it with all of you. Grace Jones’ vampiric otherworldly persona has always been an inspiration and an artistic influence in my life and it’s just so great that she’s continuing to create challenging beautiful work out there for us to enjoy.