Billboard is reporting that sophisti-pop singer, Sade Adu, and her band – collectively known as Sade – are currently in the studio recording an album of new material – their first since 2000's Lover's Rock. You can read the whole story here.

Details are (at the moment) sketchy, but the word is that Sony is hoping for a release sometime near the end of 2009.

It's an unfortunate fact that Sade releases new material far too infrequently. Indeed, a Sade release is an event – one that has sadly become increasingly rare. We can only rejoice at the news that this visionary band has something waiting in the wings.

Categories: Sade; Helen Folasade Adu; Sade Adu

The Republican Party is in amusing disrepair these days. After two crushing defeats – one in the form of the mid-term elections of 2006 – the other,  the historic election of President Barack Obama in 2008 – the party has struggled to find a voice. Rather than try to redefine themselves and their policy positions with all Americans in mind {yeah right}, the supposed Greedy Grand Old Party has instead taken an even more reactively Right-wing tone in the divisive rhetoric of conservative blowhards like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity – as well as fallen former office-holders Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney

Today, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California provided a most humorous anecdote about his party's unintended leader – the aforementioned Rush Limbaugh!

I'm not a Schwarzenegger fan – not by a longshot – but I have to give him props for this one!

Categories: Arnold Schwarzenegger; Rush Limbaugh; politics