Stephen Gately: 1976–2009
We're very sad to hear of Stephen Gately's death at the age of 33. As a 1990s boyband member it wasn't Stephen's job to redefine pop music or to inspire millions…
Label: death
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Think of Lady Gaga, then think of the opposite
We're gruesomely fascinated by Beardsmith, the winners of GMTV's 'No 1 Family' competition. From the GMTV website: "Neil set up the band with his family 10 years ago. He was…
Nice bust
A quick catch-up on the latest musical bits of bobs from the last week or so in the world of Lady Gaga. 1. New single. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGaZ0-SrWlE 'Bad Romance' was premiered…
Let's get this file sharing thing sorted out once and for all
Right — it's Friday, this has been going on too long, let's give it until the end of the weekend to get this sorted out and by Monday we'll be…
Ellie Greenwich 1940–2009
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyGO5NRhzvk In 2009, online obituary culture is so obsessed with clicks, speed and getting it done rather than doing it properly — just mindless hackwork, really, with one Wikipedia entry rewritten on…
Well that went well
This just in from Popjustice reader ihaveahat: In case you can't quite make it out, that's forty (40) boxes of the unsold Spice Girls comeback single 'Headlines', going for 30p…
What do you think of this 'West End Girls' cover?
There is a version of Pet Shop Boys' 'West End Girls' coming out towards the end of September. It's by James Talk & Ridney and it's a monumental slab of…
A note about a thing from last week
As you may have guessed from last week's string of curiously uptopical posts — posts which, you might even have suspected, had all been written in one go then timed…
There's another new Benny & Bjorn song. Verdict: amazing.
We went to Polydor yesterday to watch a video we're not really allowed to write about (spoiler alert: the singer gets thrown off a balcony) and while we were there…
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…