Music, style, and life. We are mGrooves. We are 4groovers…

There is another Girl I’ll House You fan out there.

Michelle Belmonte is a producer and DJ in the Toronto area. She collaborates frequently with another Toronto staple, Melanie Sutherland. Michelle describes herself as a House Head, pianist, singer, composer, producer, and DJ. She is also a self-described ‘femme’. Watch out!

Catch up with Miss Belmonte on twitter @missbelmonte … She thinks she looks ‘doofy’ in this photo. Let’s tell her we think differently. Include me on the conversation @musicofstylo

Get your own mGrooves and Lust4Life gear: http://www.mgrooves.com/4groovers/shop/

We have just revamped the shop. You should check it out!

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And to celebrate it, there is a brand new 2nd generation Got Booty Baby Doll T-shirt for the ladies. We still have plenty of warm weather, beach, pool, and roof top parties to attend. This is the perfect fit for them all and then some.

A little bit more on the shopping experience.

We have moved a preview to all products to the blog. To start off we have a few different shops; the choices are now in on place–www.mgrooves.com/shop. Once there, choose your shop and marvel. See an item you like? Then, simply click the image

Also you can navigate there from at least two different methods. From the front page, click on the ‘shop’ image in the gallery to be directed there. Or if you are one of our outstanding blog readers and subscribers, in the upper right corner of the blog window there is a clickable tab labelled “Shop”. Hover over the tab to see choices or go to the Shop page for a list. (Try it!)

We have some specials coming up in our shop in the coming weeks as we make moves to further improve this experience.

In the meantime, I know there must be some House Music being played somewhere… Oh that’s right. It’s time to join my ScandalDC crew.

Isn’t Spring the ultimate refresh? The rain comes and starts to wash in changes, flowers start to sprout, things thaw and turn green, short skirts come out…

Anyway, we are doing our own refresh here at mGrooves. We have added to and update our shop including adding the option to customize further our custom gear. Check out the new Got Beats Lo Keds. 801photography.net artists Tunde has collaborated with us in making the ladies version. Win a free pair by subscribing to this blog. Just give us your name and email address in the boxes in the right sidebar.

Also, we have been making changes to the website. We will be launching a second version of mGrooves logo, changing the booking and contact section to go directly through standard methods like email, texting, or phone, and adding direct access to our videos on Youtube to name a few changes. We want add to the site’s fun factor and wow factor.

On Stylo’s Facebook fanpage, we have added a Bandpage layout by Rootmusic. A very nice plug-in I must say. If they make a wordpress widget, that will likely be installed soon as well. By the way, here is one of the few places that you can get a glimpse of the new mGrooves logo.

I know, I know. Change is hard. But isn’t this what the world does to us every year with the change of seasons? What do you think of the changes?

At the May 12 Scandal Thursday, I’ll be holding it down. I’ll be sure to get your booty shakin’ and your heads to bop.  Look for new remixes from my own studio too. See…there are refreshin’ going on all over the place…

Have you ever been so focused on the item you are searching for in a store, you don’t realize who is walking up to you?  Have you ever been so focused that you launch into a question before fully recognizing who you might be addressing?  Well this happened to us a few days ago.

Walmart, Do You Work Here

Or should I say, we did this.  We were shopping for some cheap prop items to use in an upcoming art project.  And when I say cheap, by that I mean we were shopping at Walmart.  (Yes, Walmart.) We were so focused literally walking up and down aisles, we grabbed the first set of feet we heard (I emphasize the word ‘heard’) coming in our direction.

By the time we look up from the dedicated scanning of shelves, we realize that we were not addressing a store employee.  But here is the kicker: I certainly do not think we deserved the response this man gave us.  He immediately said to us before we could recover, “I’m wearing a $100 dollar shirt.  Do I look like I work here?”

Now we are in a shock of a different type all together, a type apart from the horror that we accidentally did not ask our question of a store employee.  We took some time to gather ourselves as we quickly sauntered away from the perturbations of this bowling-ball of a man.

As we collected ourselves we began to share our thoughts regarding the mans reaction.  Some of these thoughts were:

• If you are buying $100 shirts, why are you shopping at Walmart?
• Maybe you wouldn’t have to shop at Walmart if you stopped buying $100 ugly shirts such as that…
• That shirt cost $100?  They must have been selling it by the yard because it doesn’t look like it’s worth $100. (Note: the man was a 5’10″ mass of roundness akin jello spawned from a fish bowl mold.)
• Just say no.

We are really sorry for not paying attention enough to know who was approaching us.  However, we don’t believe we deserve the level of animosity we encountered either.  We are all shopping in Wal-Barf, for god’s sake.

We also like to think we are not alone in our dislike of this man’s actions.  We are curious to know how you would have responded to him having face the same or similar situation?

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