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The 11th Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group: Raw Results
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I promised the results would be up on Saturday, and here they are. Detailed scores, instant reviews, correlations and clusters, and implications all to follow.
This is from 39 votes – 32 present at Poptimism yesterday, 7 “postal”. […]

Grocus Foup
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I’m sure you’re all looking forward to Poptimism today. But if by some mischance you can’t make it, and want to take part in the Instant Focus Group, just email leagueofpop@gmail.com saying so.
(The catch? You’ll only have til[…]

alanis’s humps!
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Just in case you haven’t already seen, Alanis Morisette is not only still alive, but she’s covered the Black Eyed Peas’ My Humps!! Her little jagg’d pills perhaps?? Aiee!
FOR FCKS SAKE WORDPRESS STOP EATING MY LINKS[…]

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A Night Out On The Pop (World)
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” Popworld is a TV show. Popworld is a radio show. Popworld is a magazine. But who knew Popworld was also a theme bar? Actually, Popworld the bar in Liverpool (my only experience of its existence) used to be a Flares, and seems to have taken o[…]

EMI and iTunes news update
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They’re going to start offering higher quality (256 kbps AAC) downloads DRM-free. Yes you heard.
Single tracks 99p, albums STAY THE SAME. So you get high-quality DRM free albums for the same cost as today’s lower quality albums.
All very […]

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Bishop Angry Over Glastonbury Anti-Christian Ticket Sales
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The Glastonbury Festival has come under attack by an unlikely source this morning, just before the 1,400,000 tickets go on sale. The Bishop of Bath and Wells, whose diocese contains the Parish of Glastonbury has gone on an unprecedented attack at wha[…]

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Where is Tracer Hand or Whittling Nuncle Carsmile?
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Its is twenty five years of the Sony Radio awards. Do Sony even make radios anymore? Anyway as an occasional avid listener to radio, I always keep a wary eye on the machinations of this awards bash. It is an odd industry bash, one which provides enou[…]

A Musicologist Writes
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In the old days, we used to link a lot to good blogs we’d found. I think this practise should make a comeback, starting with Dial “M” For Musicology, which is a wide-ranging, generous-minded and jargon-free look at music and music d[…]

Daily Show and Flavor Flav Explains DST ‘Aclockalypse Now’
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Maybe many brits aren’t aware, but thems ‘mericans start DST early from this year. At work, our New York office has only been four hours behind for the last few weeks. Finally this monday we get that all important fifth hour of peace befo[…]

Poptimist #2
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My second monthly column for Pitchfork, this one nicking an idea of Pete’s from the Lollards radio show and running with it down some fairly self-indulgent sidestreets.[…]

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