Maths Vs Music!: computer program predicts hits by number science and comes up with Norah Jones and Maroon Five OH NO! The article gets a bit muddled over what the mathematics of HSS can actually do (I doubt for example it can recommend ‘mathem[…]

1000 Number Ones
What a let-down, eh readers? No Rock And Roll Fun explains why it’s a bad thing, and Mike Troubled-Diva is running a poll to find the best of the 1000 No.1s – through ILM I think, rather than his website, but his website […]

BUSTED TRIBUTE #2
How to judge how much a band affects ones life? How about the medium of karaoke?
I like karaoke. I rather like flicking through the big book and picking whatever takes my fancy at that moment. I do not have standards that I always d[…]

BUSTED TRIBUTE #1
I BLAME BIFFY CLYRO!!
Ah Busted. I saw you at Wembley Stadium. By myself. I sat in a row of three seats on the balcony as close to the front as the balcony allowed. I appeared to be the only person drinking. How I smiled as I handed[…]

I was hoping to finish writing about The Honeycombs’ “Have I The Right?” today in order to put it up on Popular, but no luck. Then I remembered that the mighty Dr C. had written about that song (and others) for us a few years ago, s[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
97. The Beat – “Save It For Later”
So, do lyrics matter? Well, what we have here suggests not – a charming parade of colloquialisms adding up to… what, exactly? What’s “Save It To Later&#[…]

I believe this is pop music’s equivalent of the board having a vote of confidence in the current management.
so
a) bye-bye Busted!
b) Do not buy any Fightstar records to tell Charlie the error of his predicted ways.[…]

Things you never hear on the radio any more
1. People Announcing Who The Song Is By
This started as a sarky comments box dig at 6music, who may well be playing rub new band The Bravery day and night but frankly I wouldn’t know, because it&#8217[…]

TOP 50 SCOTTISH BANDS EVAH!
List drawn up by (meta alert) The List. Belle & Sebastian are unsurprising winners considering all their twee fans live to artificially raise their favourites position on any poll going. They came in at Number Three i[…]

Vacuum Energy
Rachel Steven’s new single is written/produced by Swedish electro group Vacuum according to popjustice’s top showbiz links. So here’s an link to all you need to know about that secret Army of Lovers plan to rule pop by[…]