Hassle way I like it
Lots of people are talking about Swedish singer/popstar/wobbly-haired genius Erik Hassle at the moment. The reason? Well, the main reason is that his big single, 'Hurtful', is a total modern…
The Briefing
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Get your listening gear around the new Royksopp album
The new Royksopp album is sort of phenomenal so we thought you might like to know that Juno have put up some pleasingly lenghty preview clips ahead of the album's…
The UK Number One single: cheaper than a first class stamp
(£0.29p, Amazon MP3) (£0.36p, A Post Office ) Bloody hell. (Incidentally the stamp pictured above is one in a special commemorative set of stamps, due to be issued next month…
The things that dreams are made of
One of this week's Popjustice Songs Of The Day was supremely ropey so to make up for it today's is a total corker — a brand new duet between Little…
ALL OTHER POP IS CANCELLED (for half an hour)
As part of All Around The World's quest to become the world's best pop label, they're on the verge of releasing something which, like most AATW releases, represents either a…
Today's post: from the sublime to the ridiculous
We didn't get much in the post today but the two items pictured above summarise how most days feel at Popjustice: on the left, an exhaustive Leonard Cohen live extravaganza.…
Yous can stand under their umberella
The Yeah Yous have the name of a woeful, blog-friendly Brooklyn art-disco outfit but are, in fact, two fellas called Nick and Mike. They're a sort of self-styled Gilbert &…
Michael Jackson at the O2: what we want
'Thriller' from beginning to end. 'Earth Song' encore. Tickets priced at £49 (ie £1 per minute of music). The End.
Bono's boot failure (partially) explained
Yesterday, we asked why the U2 comeback single didn't make the Top 10, then dropped to 20 in its second week. Obviously U2 are more of an albums act these…
Things that look like other things — Kelly Clarkson special
Look at this. It looks like we've been sent a Kelly Clarkson promotional condom. But we haven't. It's just a lollipop. Like the lolly she had on the cover of her…