The international festival of pop is AT LAST upon us! Europop 2008 opens with Switzerland vs Czech Republic, both teams stripped for action. Here’s the podcast for you to hear the tracks – you’ll find managerial analysis, comment[…]

Revealing post on Troubled Diva showing the respective most-played-artists on BBC Radio 1, Radio 2 and 6Music, as revealed by last.fm – ‘urban’ station 1Xtra’s stats are in the comments boxes, which focus on a telling observa[…]

Maze War is the grand-daddy of not only first-person shooters, but also networked multi-player games like World of Warcraft. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are mazes in WoW, Second Life etc, as they are the nursey-slopes for 3D environment cr[…]

Of course, the best thing about S4C whilst I was growing up in the north-west was getting to watch Countdown on poorly tuned S4C in the telly in my room, then trotting downstairs to where my parents were watching English Channel 4 in the living room […]

 
Flemish chart record-breaker![…]

After last weeks high concept high art piece, lets go back a bit to a time when book jackets were not all airbrushed wasps and TV-Tie-ins. This cover to The Body In The Library is still pretty high concept, and designed nicely without a computer in s[…]

“that alluring mixture of bravado, frustration and loss”[…]

This morning I discovered that the new toothpaste I bought had vanished. Knowing my 1-year-old son’s love of raiding shopping bags I worked out quickly what had happened to it: the where proved more elusive, and to avoid being late I decided to[…]

Canadian indie-rock[…]

If you are the commenter known as COCO, who asked to play in Europop 2008 and was given PORTUGAL, can you send your email to leagueofpop@gmail.com ASAP confirming you still want to join in – we need a track for your opening game next week.
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