Betty Boo

Performance are a Manchester 3-piece that specialise in 80's-tinged electro-pop. Read More

The Dead Weather, for instance, have been, if not universally embraced, then nonetheless generally welcomed as more than a mere vanity project, while Them Crooked Vultures were something of a highlight for everyone that caught them at Reading and Leeds, and, perhaps most notably of all, the Last Shadow Puppets have clearly outstripped anything either of their parent bands have put together in the last two years. Read More

Girls Aloud's second single "No Good Advice" is a terrifying celebration of blankness with a payoff—"cos frankly I just don't care"—that sounds like a teen-pop riposte to "Pretty Vacant". Read More

Girls Aloud's second single "No Good Advice" is a terrifying celebration of blankness with a payoff—"cos frankly I just don't care"—that sounds like a teen-pop riposte to "Pretty Vacant". Read More

We've grown used to lip syncing, mouthing the words but not really singing them, on videos and television. Read More

Week 34 in 1989 hasn't really changed much over it's predecessor with the only real point of note being Black Box moving up the charts in an effort to unthrone Jive Bunny, so to take a break I'll move onto the same week in 1992 instead for some variety. 73 Erasure – Abba-esque : Covers of Abba tracks from Erasure, also available in a set of remixes by Fortran 5, Phil Kelsey and most oddly Chris & Cosey remixing SOS . Read More