Friday 21 March 2008




The Long Blondes, finally got some dorian action and some 'century' quotes and also got my hands on the album "couples", its not all as trancey as 'century' and three tracks in feels like an homage to somone to drive you home, ill keep going before i form an opinion.

Monday 17 March 2008

Last year i made a band out of the 5 hottest male solo stars i coud find: this year things start getting a little closer to becoming a reality.

Calvin Goldspink
's acting career took a hit after life is wild got cancelled, and now he's holding a guitar. His new album is out later this year, it is of course much more mature than his work with s club juniors, how could it not be hes holding a guitar.
Zac Efron continues to pretend he's an actor at heart when we all now he'd be a perfect lead in the band, he has three new movies in production and continues to look pretty. maybe we'll try to recruit the others first, then telephone in his vocals and make sure he's available for the first video shoot.

The same goes for Thomas Dekker, ive given up on his tv show, if only i could send a terminator back a year and encourage a record company to release his two albums. yes hes made two albums worth of material. we'll probably use his tracks as album fillers.


Jesse McCartney is about to drop departure his new album that popjustice tells us is amazing, he could do with going blonde again though

And lastly the most anticipated album release ever monsier Simon Curtis needs to get famous and relagate the need for this band by becoming a one man definition of pop.
Girl's Aloud: 'Hoxton Heroes', clips of this have been flying around for what seems like months but the whole thing is surprisingly fresh, and uber relavent in this new era where people my age still refer to music as indie or pop when these words have no relavence and probably never did.
Making pop in an indie way, and indie with pop melodies forms the basis of some of our favourites groups of the moment: dragonette, the ting tings, hadouken, the klaxons, alphabeat. indie used to be an alternative to the mainstream of pop, and pop even when it was good served as a money maker criticised by the indies. now things seem much nicer. people who like pop are making pop, and people who like music arent afraid of pop...and people who still wanna be indie get pop punk'd by the reigning queens of pop... i present this thusly:


Sunday 16 March 2008

The Long Blondes, with a better hype campaign than Madonna:








wheres dorian? oh to be his plus one
Janet Jackson, Discipline
If Blue Peter were making a Janet album, they'd put lots of good hooks glue it together with some sparkly bits, then cut away the excess, fold it in half and come up with a much better tracklist...
  1. Feedback
  2. LUV
  3. Rollercoaster
  4. Rock With U
  5. 2Nite
  6. So Much Betta
  7. The One ft Missy Elliot





Alphabeat, are finally top ten, and the amount of times i play it at work must have the whole of the northwest humming along to its infectiousness. Alphabeat woke me up most days in japan, as i tend ot oversleep my alarm, and cycle hurriedly to work in the humidity, they kept me going with their bouncyness. The fact ive had the album a year and theyre only jut getting big makes me forget about them so consider this post a well deserved bump, and a preview of the singles of the summer.






Rihanna, for some reason, is about to 'Take A Bow' for the re-release of her album Good Girl Gone Bad. The song is quite subtle and not immediatly worthy of being a single, especially if this means pre-empting 'breakin' dishes' yet again, yet for all that i really think it works lyrically and vocally to produce yet another Neyo penned / Stargate mashed hit.
The possible re-release of her third album seems to imply that a fourth is not gonna happen this year at least, this is no bad thing, hopefully her next album will be her best. I think that in retrospect this is an awesome album; the latter half stands up well a year on, and although the album ends with some solid album only tracks, unlike the single worthy smorgasboard of the first half, it still plays well as a great album.
In conclusion: if 'Take a Bow' is the only new Rihanna song this year it'll do. If it was a lead single from album 4 it would be a dissapointment. If it slowly builds up on radio and helps sell a re-release of the album then thats great but hopefully the repackage is not just for 'slow to buy consumers', those only just thinking wow that umbrella song is catchy, hopefully the people that do, do put something for the pop officianado on the album with some real bonus material, live/acoustic/covers/remixes/dvds...a duet with chris brown...?etc