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.

Emerging From Hibernation:
After the bleak january popscene here comes a belated valentines to sort things out...

All the hype is paying off for the Adele's, Duffy's and David Jordan's of this world...but none of them could get a hit at any other time of year.
Basshunter gives us 2008's biggest selling song of the year so far... with a measley 200,000 sales.
Nickelback reach a new peak of number 2 with a song that charted first way back in october '07...

...and so while pop seemingly slumbers on here is my rundown of the small stirrings going on that give me hope that pop wil soon bloom again:

10) NZ band Cut Off Your Arms: Oh Girl, stealing the building blocks from with every heartbeat to provide the type of indie boys pop that might make some people think pop is newly credible and others think that indie boys are newly hot or something... anyway there it is for you:

9) Two sweet singles should encourage anyone to find out this album: here is the cover so you know what to look for when u enter a record shop or when u want to paste into itunes to add to your illegally downloaded copy.

8) Black and Gold: Sam Sparro : hotpants : hit single

7) she dont rush the bus: snoop / robyn / sexual eruption

6) im a lyckle bit in love with her: lykke li, little bit

5) Kylie, do it again, cherry bomb, carried away: three new b-sides that add to that whole nintendo/kawaii/mecha/candy thing she almost had goin on with her album. The album is still good but hopefully some of these tracks get merged into the tour setlist to make things a bit more cohesive and thereby resembling artisitc integrity rather than capitalising upon a mix of potential singles.

4) simon curtis remains lodged on my album and hopefully this year you will have heard of him hear him here see him here:

the professor is mad and hes working at feverish pace

Okay one more post, seeing as its technically Sunday here now...
I like the new Sugababes song and you might too? hinthint clickclick

I also love the Darren Hayes album: 'The Tuning of Violins' sounds like Keanes 'Somehwere Only We Know?' but with much more sunshine, and 'Waking the Monster' shows such good narrative storytelling, so everyone please buy it next week and in lieu of my own heres Simon Curtis with his review for ElectroQueer.

Breaking news... electroqueer ... aka Raj is now engaged to his beloved boyfriend so big congratulations guys! and everyone leave him a comment when u follow the link.