I'm sorry I neglected this blog so badly.....but....

I. am. a. bad. girl. I haven't posted in nearly a year. That is pitiful. I should be spanked hard for that one. Why oh why did I neglect my blog so badly? Why oh why did I entirely forget I had one?

The answer is simple. A combination of pot smoke and a lot of time spent WORKING!

Since I was last here the following things have happened.

PEACH MELBA- my collaboration with the amazing Juan MacLean came out in the summer to great acclaim and amazing reviews! Pitchfork, URB, XLR8R, and Little White Earbuds all gave it great shouts. I'm so happy people dug some really incredible house music that we made together, and in 2012 I know we plan to do more, release more, so stay tuned on that.... Put Peach Melba DFA into a search engine and make sure if you've not picked up a copy you get it!!

SAZON BOOYA- I've worked now with these incredible men of Moombahton twice and it just keeps getting better. La Arana Negra made quite a dent over the summer, and I just completed vox for a track called Demonio! Stay tuned on that one!

SPF 5000- My project here in Boston lit a fire in January that spread like a wildfire. We released White Hot Fantasy back in May on Top Billin, P.O.T.S. in Sept on Top Billin and currently have a hot track called Paraiso out on Nurvous (Nervous Records's imprint). There are remixes galore on all the tracks mentioned from DJ Sega, Scottie B, Lazaro Casanova, Hex Hector, Walker and Royce, Dances with White Girls, Cobra Krames and more more more!!! We released two mixtapes since Enthusiasm is Contagious, one called Soul Glo for Nicky Digital, whose CMJ event we rocked in October, and one for Top Billin x JUNO. And we're just getting started. A video for both P.O.T.S. and our upcoming single Nicky Digital are coming!

I've got feature vocals coming out with the amazing Lazaro Casanova, he of Miami's MURK and PetFood Label, and the amazing KON and I have been working on something completely hot. If you thought you heard a lot from me in 2011, just you wait....2012 I've got a LOT cookin and more hot beats and treats for your ears....

AND....

I've begun initial pre-production on a TV show which I'll be filming on location here in Somerville in my pad o' pleasure, based on my Rocktails Cocktail Book, and until then, I've begun a series of Whisky Tastings and Reviews on Youtube, under the moniker THE WHISKY BITCH. Things are already well underway there, having uploaded 12 episodes that cover Single Malt Scotch, Bourbon and Rye thus far and we're just getting started there as well!!!!

So with that, there will be more coming and in addition I hereby solemnly swear to never neglect this blog again, no matter how lazy, shiftless, slackery and often stoned I am. I promise.

Can you DIG IT?

Ohhhhh baby! Ever since I moved to Somerville, MA, I've been just completely taken by the music scene and art culture of my surroundings. One of the coolest things about Boston, is The Dig, which I read like a hungry rabid animal every week, as it instructs me and the great readers of Boston where to eat, go, shop, hang, dance, cry, watch movies, be retarded and just plain live life to the max. It's the magazine that clearly has it's finger on the pulse, and it's editor in chief, David Day is not only the man ensuring that we all know what's UP, he is a fantastic and well respected DJ in his own right, (see the film Speaking In Code and you will walk away in AWE).

Well turns out, Benjamin Gray, awesome music and IN THE MIX section writer, just graced SPF 5000 in this amazing publication and I must say this recently transplanted NYC girl, really took it to heart. Thank you Weekly Dig, Thank you David, thank you Ben.

http://digboston.com/listen/2011/01/in-the-mix-spf-5000/

Enthusiasm IS Contagious!!!- SPF 5000 DEBUTS!

When I moved to Boston (more succinctly Somerville, MA) from my hometown of NYC, I didn't know what to expect. Would I like it? Would I be able to live here? What would happen to the music? Would I be making music with anyone locally?

WELL THE ANSWERS WERE YEEEEEEESSSS

SPF 5000 is the duo between myself and Mr. Rob Phillips, uberproducer and bassist. We like dirty house, electro, freestyle, booty bass, if it shakes the subwoofers, it's in our repetoire, and we've released a DJ Mix called Enthusiasm Is Contagious to encompass all the music that influences us, as well as our first Original called "White Hot Fantasy"



Go on over to our fancy SoundCloud Page and take a listen!!!! You'll like it! We promise!

Teena...

I'm sitting here at my keyboard playing the chord progression to Square Biz over and over again, with a glass of single malt on one side, and a box of tissues at the other. Clearly, whatever superpower that provides the unknown wanted Teena Marie to return to the sky today. I don't know if there are words to describe the utter emptiness inside of me right now.

I can remember vividly the first time I heard Teena, and thought "this chick is a complete badass." Even long before I knew of her complete CV, I knew that Teena Marie was a soulful diva, a singer of the highest order, and someone whose star I wanted to follow. She had a resume that inspired me utterly, as a writer, a player, and a singer. That she was also a lil ole white girl, who was adored by a largely African American audience, intrigued and inspired me as well. Artists like Teena live by the credo long ago spoken by Charles Mingus, "soul knows no color. The great are colorless."

Teena Marie was a funkstress, a jazz singer, a poet and someone who was an all ecompassing presence of aspirations and fearlessness. Teena, up to the end, was always Teena, uncompromising and funky. There isn't a singer alive today, who sings R+B music that hasn't been touched by her influence whether they know it or not.

Sadly, on Twitter today it became painfully obvious how few people knew who Teena was. An entire generation of younguns, completely missed out on Lady T. Normally I get really furious when I see how things are so lazily handled these days, and how uneducated so many young people are with the history and pathology of the music they enjoy today, but today it just made me all the sadder.

All I can say, is that without Teena Marie, there would be no Amy D. Teena was a true influence on what I do as an artist today and her removal from planet Earth, is going to be felt by me for a long time. If I had a dime for every time I sang Square Biz, or Lovergirl, or Behind the Groove with some pick up funk band, I'd be a rich bitch by now. Funny, those songs, no matter how many times I sang them, NEVER GOT OLD FOR ME. I never tired once of singing those songs, proof that her work was enduring and the truest highest definition of pure art. Teena wrote timeless classics that will endure forever, delivered by a voice that is one in a million. What other bad bitch could stand toe to toe with RICK JAMES????

54 years is not enough time on the planet. We'll always have her music thank heavens, but the world just lost one of the funkiest, sexiest most sensational artists of all time.

R.I.P.

ROCKTAILS!!!!

After a solid year in the making, it is FINALLY READY!!!!!

ROCKTAILS- by Amy Douglas (duh) and Dave Baron with amazing artwork and layout by Martin Stone Hennessee

for $10.50 cents this is a perfect holiday gift!

email discokaina@gmail.com for Paypal payment and give yourselves the ultimate in rock fantasy!

Nerdy Frames...perfect for an interview with this Nerdy Girl

http://www.nerdy-frames.org/2010/09/amy-d-interview.html

PENNED...MAAAAAAADNESS

You gotta love the headline alone. "Who The Fuck is Amy Douglas???" Honestly after a few joints and a glass of single malt scotch, many times I'm not sure either!!! Big love to taste-maker, DJ and a really good cook Sean MFn Roberts for putting together this expose on all my plans to rule the charts.

Piece is here.