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A car chase for a Thursday afternoon

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VpTu6bbBE8 We featured Raygun's 'Just Because' as a Song Of The Day a couple of months ago — some of you might also have seen them recently sup­port­ing Pink. The…
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Three people who need to Literally Get On With It

1. Robbie Williams 2. Diana Vickers 3. Actually just those two for the time being
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The Girls Can't Catch video: to paraphrase Jan Hammer, there's a croquet theme

One wonders if there was ANY point during the com­mis­sion­ing process for Girls Can't Catch's debut video when anybody thought, if only to them­selves, "do you know what, it's important…
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A nice free Fever Ray / Rex The Dog download…

We've got the terrific Rex The Dog mix of Fever Ray's new single 'Triangle Walks' as today's Song Of The Day. Turns out we're also allowed to give you the entire…
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Close your eyes and listen to the new Nelly Furtado single

Good news: Nelly Furtado's new song is very very good.  Bad news: There's a terrible 'teaser video' doing the rounds. Click play on this, close your eyes and enjoy the music.…
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BWO and Velvet have put a donk on it…

Every couple of years someone gets in touch with us and says something along the lines of 'Bodies Without Organs [or BWO as we now call them] are launching in…
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The new Shakira single: it's literally very good

A lady from Shakira 's record label came to play us the big comeback single 'She Wolf' earlier this morning, then she left the building with the CD. Fortunately we had…
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Ding dong — it's the midweeks

Let's see what may or may not be the relative successes and failiures in this coming Sunday's singles chart. Take That — 'Said It All': [audio:bell.mp3] Paloma Faith — 'Stone…
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And the award for most surprising pop comeback/reinvention type thing of 2009 goes to…

PRESTON OUT OF THE ORDINARY BOYS. He is now literally 'out of' the Ordinary Boys in the sense that he has rein­ven­ted himself as a solo 'artiste' and despite the…
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Odd sleeve for underwhelming pop single

?!? Still, at least they put some real time, effort and cre­ativ­ity into brain­storm­ing the remix package.  Presumably 'Soul Seekerz' were busy. (Busy = £2.5k too expensive.)

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    The 2022 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist
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    2021 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Laura Mvula wins
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