I feel it is about time to update all of you faithful TBW readers, who don’t already follow us on Twitter or Facebook, all the exciting new things that have happened here over the last month or so. I have been meaning to write this for a while, but late is better than never.

Firstly, last month we joined the Strangers in Stereo music blog collective – which is a group of 25 of the best music from around the globe joining forces both online (the SiS website which highlights content from each member blog alongside original features), and offline (SiS launched with a party at SXSW and we are looking forward to being part of more of that in the future). We haven’t hidden the fact that we’re pretty psyched about joining the ranks of Cream Team, The Culture of Me, Disco Demons, Disco Punk, First Up!, Forward Music, Hard Candy Music, The Music.fm, The Music Ninja, MuuMuse, Nialler9, One Thirty BPM, Pigeons and Planes, Pretty Much Amazing, The Recommender, Sheena Beaston, Tastes Like Caramel, Stoney Roads, Too Many Sebastians, Tympanogram, Vinyl & Vodka, We All Want Someone To Shout For, The World in a Paper Cup, and Yours Truly.

Secondly, I was interviewed about all things Walrus and music on Hype Machine Radio this month (thanks Dev!). If you ever wanted to know how and why I got into this in the first place, or how the name The Blue Walrus came about, or just love new music (this last one is obviously true if you’re reading this) – then go and have a listen. This month, TBW is featured alongside the phenomenal Daytrotter, Weekly Tape Deck, and Loudersoft.

Thirdly, I just wanted to give a shout out to Lauren who has come back to writing for TBW after touring with a bang (and some amazing new discoveries), and Hamish who is starting to get back involved as well. Not only that, but we may hopefully have another writer joining us in the near future, and whilst I’m keeping her identity quiet for the time being.– I’m pretty excited.