“When Smash Hits died, Popjustice became the new home of pop music.”
The Observer (World’s 50 Most Powerful Blogs)
“The definitive pop blog”
Shortlist
“Popjustice’s support is vital to the launch of any mainstream artist”
The Times: The UK’s Top 20 Star Makers (Actually bollocks but it was nice of them to say)
“A bit cheeky and a bit rude”
Leona Lewis
“Anyone in search of the spirit behind Britain’s deceased pop bible, Smash Hits, should look no further”
Guardian Guide
“Not afraid to cut through the industry bullshit”
Attitude
“Funny, passionate and informed about the subject of pop”
Music Week
“One of our favourite websites”
Pet Shop Boys
“Popjustice seeks to bring back pop music to the British public by re-inventing it in a more sophisticated mould. It is clever. It is dangerous. It must be stopped”
The Times
“The site’s judgement is caustic, hard and fast, with no quarter given to dreariness, condescension, formulaic laziness. Its aesthetic is rigorous: pop has to be glamorous, sexy, futuristic, emotion-concentrate, totally connected to the moment.”
Jon Savage
“Intelligent, irreverent and frequently hilarious discussion of chart pop … very much in the vein of classic Smash Hits magazine. Razor-sharp satire”
The Daily Telegraph
“Pop-music commentary from a British perspective”
Entertainment Weekly (100 Best Entertainment Sites, 2006)
“Popjustice rules”
Jake Shears
“Lily Allen put me onto Popjustice when we first starting working together. I think it was one of the first big things to bring attention to her or whatever, and I check it out cause it’s a wryly funny site that posts good pop-leaning music – I check it out to find new UK stuff for my radio show.”
Mark Ronson
“Fearsomely irreverent”
The Sunday Herald
“Even ruder about pop than we are”
TOTP Online
“The planet’s most brilliant pop music website”
thelondonpaper
“Magnificent”
NME
“Quite magnificent”
Arena
“Smash Hits in the 1980s found a way to approach pop music and pop culture which still hasn’t been bettered today. Not in print, anyway. But on the internet it lives on, at Popjustice, a website that is as silly as it is wise”
Caitlin Moran, The Times
“The challenge for me now is to make something that Popjustice will say is a brilliant pop record”
Pete Waterman
“Popjustice has proved itself to be hugely popular with the industry, but also with real music fans … Funny, cutting edge, informative and simply brilliant”
Record Of The Day
“In-jokey and irreverent … Popjustice is at its most entertaining when pricking the egos of pop’s firmament”
The Sunday Times
“There is no more entertaining guide to the current pop landscape than Popjustice. Any website that maintains that Being Boring by the Pet Shop Boys is the greatest song of all time obviously has impeccable taste”
The Guardian
“The greatest website on the entire internet”
thisisfakediy
“The spirit of Smash Hits lives on”
Time Out
“A lifeline for import-obsessed Americans”
San Fransisco Bay Guardian
“Based on an innate understanding of the delicate equation of irreverence and insanity, idiocy and individuality, wit and style that equals pop perfection, PJ passes judgment on what’s pop and what’s not … capable of worshipping at the altar of pop’s untouchables or highlighting the embarrassing shortcomings of its wannabes. If there’s a murder on pop’s dancefloor, Popjustice will be the first to draw up a list of suspects. Pure. Pop. Genius”
Observer Music Monthly (25 best music websites, 2006)
“Profane, passionate and much needed”
The Times (Top 5 Pop Blogs)
“Excellent”
Plan B magazine
“Simon Cowell, Simon Fuller and Louis Walsh may have made pop a dirty word, but the Popjustice website has been fighting back since 2000″
The Independent
“Staggering”
BBC Online
“Evidence that the age-old conflict between two constructs – gaudy, plastic pop and rugged, enduring rock – is in rude health”
The Observer
Briefing