And now “We Are the World” part two! — oh good god:
Jermaine Dupri has been called on to produce an updated version of one of the (if not the) most legendary collaborations of all time, “We Are the World.”
“It&#821[…]

Alternative Band Aid Lyrics
(as featured in Guardian Society yesterday)
Take your pick from the intentionally funny –
“It’s christmas time and there’s no need to be afraid
It’s christmas time, Bono’s here and he&#8[…]

Dimebag Darrell is dead — I gotta admit, I wasn’t a huge Pantera fan, though I appreciate that for a lot of folks they were in ways the perfect gateway drug to all sorts of things growly and mean and loud. But jeez louise, this isn&#8217[…]

End-Times Economics
The Good News! We (well, those of us who were interested) have got our tickets for Gurls Aloud at the Hammersmith Apollo on May 28. See you there poppists!
The Other News: Apparently after booking fees etc. are taken into account […]

Band Aid 20 is now squatting atop the charts and I feel I can safely bring an end to my “History Of Band Aid” charity appeal. If you recall it involved me giving a pound to charity for every link this got. The links keep trickling in and […]

ILXor.com is back! — just a quick report to note that Andrew has scrounged up the source of the problem and put in a hopefully sufficient enough temporary fix for the moment. Rah![…]

Time to update your bookmarks: Nate is BACK.[…]

Popscene Contd.: hot on the heels of Poptext, here’s another new pop-for-nerds blog. I think I like this one even more, because it has pretensions to MATHS at the end of each entry.[…]

The Guardian’s pop coverage just gets odder. This article calls for U2 to split up – nothing very radical in that, though the author seems to think that they should split because they’ve failed to usher in a new era of Christian con[…]

A JOHN WATERS CHRISTMAS
I just love that phrase. It shouldn’t exist per se and yet there it is, and the link takes you to, among the other things, the cover art, which is even better. It’s what caught my attention a couple of weeks ago […]