Five reasons new songstrel Zarif thinks she is amazing
People whose opinions on music we tend to trust keep telling us Zarif is amazing. We think she's quite good, and perhaps even 'better than alright'. Certainly there's a song…
The Briefing
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It's the best Pet Shop Boys album sleeve since 'Very'…
So we think you can probably see what they've done here. What might not be immediately obvious but is exclusively revealed on the Pet Shop Boys website is that each…
The Blackout Crew have really outdonked themselves with their new single
Millions of years after the human race as we know it has died out, future civilsations will unravel the complexities of 21st century human existence by examining the popular culture…
You won't need a 2:1 in Media Studies to deconstruct this video's complex semiotics
In yesterday's Song Of The Day blurb — for Cahill's quite excellent new version of 'Sex Shooter'… [audio:sexshootershort.mp3] …we noted that "if the video doesn't feature some sort of dance…
There are days when you just want to pack everything up and go home.
They're days when everything seems pointless. Days when you wonder why you bother. Days when you just want to go home, sit quietly in an empty room for three hours…
Run for the hills — Calvin Goldspink's got an acoustic guitar and he's not afraid to use it
We don't actually think this is the real Calvin Goldspink who wanted to be Popjustice's friend on MySpace. Calvin is typical of that sort of ex-pop band member whose annoying…
The new Calvin Harris single: pretty bloody good
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YWjOYfUORk Pete Tong gave the new Calvin Harris single, 'I'm Not Alone', its first proper airing on Friday night the track sounds incredible. Calvo's label have been going around busily…
Alesha's deep breathing
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ocVbJHwlw We posted a couple of months ago about how people on YouTube are uploading re-pitched songs with female vocals made to sound like male vocals. Here is quite a…
A Roux with a view
It's always interesting, once you've become familiar with an artist's music, to then see how their label will then choose to present it all to The General Public. Here's what…
Half-star ratings in iTunes: is this the way forward or the beginning of untold misery?
We recently did something to our iTunes that allows us to give songs half-star ratings. Instead of just five options, we now have ten. Here's how we used to do it. *****…