Midweek misery..
Here's your usual selection of bells and honks to indicate how singles and albums released this week have been selling, or, in some cases, not selling. Remember, while a ding…
The Briefing
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Everyone loves a press conference
Press conferences are great because they make pop music seem like A PROPER THING. This one will probably be quite good. Let's hope there's a buffet.
Full, up-to-the-minute Glastonbury coverage
Dragonette: amazing. Arcade Fire: amazing. Calvin Harris: amazing. The Killers: amazing. Patrick Wolf: amazing. Palladium: amazing. The Whip: amazing. Mark Ronson: amazing. Amy Winehouse: amazing. This: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWdN0FqSZ‑o — amazing. So…
Mutyarmada update
Today we received in the post not one, not two, but THREE (three!) different promotional CDs for 'Song 4 Mutya'. (The sleeve for the best one is above, featuring a…
Would you let this woman near your fan belt?
'This woman' being Rihanna, obviously. If our local branch of Quik-Fit was anything like the one Rihanna works at of a weekend we'd be reversing into bollards at every given opportunity,…
The new Mika video.
We think it's fair to say that if you already like Mika this video will make you like him more, and if you already don't like Mika it will make…
The usual ups and downs are happening in the midweeks
It's mostly downs though, unless you are fans of curly-haired men who have recently won Saturday night TV shows aimed at finding non-threatening gentlemen to appear in West End musicals.…
Another Kelly, another stinker
The new Kelly Rowland album is worse than three copies of the current Melanie C album played at the same time slightly out of sync with each other, although the…
Here is the actual new Timbaland video
For no discernable reason, the video Timbaland made for his The Hives collaboration was just something to kill some time with, before making another not very exciting video for his…
Umbrella with a fella-ella-ella
As you will have noticed by now, 'Umbrella' is one of those almost supernaturally brilliant modern pop records, like 'Hung Up', 'Maneater' and 'Biology', which flicks an odd but pleasant…