First up, Josh Kaufman who’s competing on The Voice. I don’t watch The Voice, but stumbled on a clip of his audition and immediately fell in love developed a small crush. (I’m a sucker for a guy with a great falsetto.) This song hit the iTunes Top 10 last week week:
Of course that led me to search down the original, which led me to discover Sam Smith. (Again, with the falsetto. I may have pre-ordered his album that’s releasing next month.) It’s a tough choice for me between “Stay with Me” and this one “Not In That Way”:
I have argued that iTunes was invented for me because I *LOVE* buying song by song and almost never commit to a full album. In the last couple of weeks, though, I have broken with this tendency and downloaded the whole albums of three bands and I’m loving them all:
Fitz and the Tantrums
Bastille
and Neon Trees
and, finally, this song was on Glee last week. I’ve said before that I’m anxiously waiting for this season to END so that I can stop feeling compelled to watch mostly because I think that music has BLOWN recently. This is one of the few from this season where I sought out the original artist to download:
