This song surprised me at first — granted, it was the video that surprised. I didn’t think I’d see Faith sulking through a sweltering dystopic lovelorn backdrop any time this century – I didn’t know she could sulk! Wit[…]

Slap Dee Barnes: another weblog I should be linking, why do I always (re)discover these things the day I update the sidebar? Some great song reviews and write-ups.[…]

Tom’s Top Ten
TATU – “How Soon Is Now?”
STEVIE WONDER – “He’s Misstra Know-It-All”
RANDY NEWMAN – “Love Story”
FLO DAN – “Big Mic Man”
PET SHOP BOYS – “Wh[…]

Real Music Martyrs – with seven reality-pop singles in the Top 40 it was almost inevitable that some scalp or other would be claimed, but oh the unalloyed joy – and for once RMM is dropping its neutrality – that this week’s RM[…]

Self-Promotion Time! My review of Britpop documentary Live Forever is in this month’s Sight And Sound – not on the website though so you’ll have to read it in the newsagent or! wait until the ‘Director’s Cut’ shows[…]

I’m a big fan of cheeky charming chappies Blazin’ Squad, AND NOW I KNOW WHY!
NB – this info is from Popbitch. Take your salt and sprinkle it over your chips of disbelief as you will…
“Russ Ballard of 70s prog-rock band A[…]

Electric 6-Danger! High Voltage! (Les Rhythmes Digitales Thin White Duke Remix)
When I was younger and danced less I think at this point in my life if I was keen on finding a song for a specific feeling (I’m not) I’d have listened to Gra[…]

CD:UK Hotshots – the moral decline of pop continues apace a.k.a. set the videos! Plus – Richard X meets Liberty X (RX not exactly taxed on the “new ideas” front but great to have “Being Boiled” back in the charts);[…]

When Ur A Clone…: blog I hadn’t seen before, linked by Oh, Manchester… who correctly calls it “poptastic”. Has the midweek charts – the interesting thing is that David Sneddon’s only sold 19,000 records so fa[…]

I’ll admit it, I didn’t like ‘What I Go To School For’ when it first came out, I thought oh no, not a boy band with guitars, and no drummer, what new evil is this? But then as time went by it clicked, these guys aren’t s[…]