2 month ago
deusx : Disney Lab Unveils Its Latest Line Of Genetically Engineered Child Stars | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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3 month ago
Rod Begbie : PushPopURL - A stack for URLs you don't have time to read now. Bookmarklets control the stack, so you can push pages when you're busy, and pop them when you're bored. [via] #
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9 month ago
adamrg : Are excessive lyrics ruining pop music? - By William Weir - Slate Magazine - With the releases of "Wipe Out" and Lonnie Mack's "Memphis" in 1963, things looked bright for the rock instrumental. Then came The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and his 564-word "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall."
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10 month ago
Andy Baio : Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music - what hath Antares wrought? [via]
deusx : Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music - 10 Examples - Hometracked - "If you're unfamiliar with Auto-tune, and especially if you listen to much pop and rock, you might not hear it initially. When overdone, the effect yields an unnatural yodel or warble in a singer's voice."
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14 month ago
deusx : Pet Shop Boys' Bar Code Manifesto (Three Minds @ Organic) - "The whole package—music, message, meme, media—comes together nicely. Like the best cultural phenomena, this can be enjoyed at several levels of participation—at least one of which involves a dance floor."
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14 month ago
philgyford : Billie the vision and the dancers - Gorgeous, tuneful, twee Swedish pop, all free. If you try one track, try 'A Beautiful Night in Oslo'. (via Not Your Usual Bollocks)
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16 month ago
nelson : baby baby *luvya girl* - The song's main, and sole, lyrics, "Baby, baby, Luvya girl," are sung in a breathy male voice that alternates between a grunt and a falsetto.
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19 month ago
adamrg : Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage? - (via Photomatt)
deusx : Justin Timberlake - Culture - Hollywood - Idea Lab - New York Times - "we should treat both the predictions and the explanations we are served — whether about the next hit single, the next great company or even the next war — with the skepticism they deserve."
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Blisterpack packaging allows you to create your own flavours of fizzy drink. And add caffeine if you want... - Saw this and thought of Webb immediately. What a lovely / strange / pretty idea.
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Oooh - Man, this is the best sliver of pure P!O!P! gold I've heard in a long time. I'm going to have the chorus engraved on my tombstone. #
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : Popjustice - The Truth About Pop - Top quality P!O!P! research from Popjustice. "44% of Lily Allen's MySpace friends think her next album will be shit." FACT! #
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29 month ago
Rod Begbie : The Pipettes - Pull Shapes - Top music video (blatantly/lovingly ripped off from "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls") from quality new Spector-esque polka-dotted powerpop group. [via] #
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29 month ago
Rod Begbie : Popjustice £20 Music Prize: the 2006 shortlist... - Who gives a toss about yer Mercury arty wankfest? *This* is the music prize that matters. Some great choons in here. #
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30 month ago
Andy Baio : Pitchfork's 100 Awesome Music Videos - all with embedded YouTube links; I just killed a full hour on this
joshua : Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos - i heard they used to show these on television
plasticbag : Pitchfork presents 100 Awesome Music Videos - All complete with embedded YouTube links so you can actually watch the damn things. Copyright infringement by the megaton, but it's fascinating, beautiful and completely absorbing. I'll be playing with this a lot this evening. Mmm. Classy.
Philippe Janvier : 100 Awesome Music Videos - Oldies but Goodies ! [via] #
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30 month ago
plasticbag : Def Leppard are on the comeback trail - The Guardian's got a fairly loving article about the old rockers who became old-fashioned overnight when grunge came along
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : This Is Fake DIY - Indie news/reviews website. Focuses on the shiny, fun, P!O!P! side of the indie coin, to my immense delight. And it's named after a bis song, so how can you go wrong? [via] #
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31 month ago
plasticbag : Plotting the regional differences in descriptions of carbonated drinks in the US - the Pop vs. Soda Page - My grandmother in Norwich always used to try and get me to stop, "drinking all that old pop". But then she also used to declare me a "sluss pot" for drinking so many liquids. No idea if that's a real expression or not...
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32 month ago
Rod Begbie : www.myspace.com/wigwamrock - Betty Boo & Alexfromblur's new single. Hot damn, it's ridiculously catchy and smashing. #
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35 month ago
plasticbag : "Music giant Sony is launching a venture aimed at promoting talented gay and lesbian recording artists." - What a strange move. I suppose it makes some sense to have a team surrounding gay artists that can understand the issues that they might be confronted with, but at the same time it does smack a bit of ghettoisation. I'll be following this...
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35 month ago
Rod Begbie : POPJUSTICE ::: Is this the greatest band logo of all time? - Betty Boo and Alex from Blur -- Together at last! Oh, this sounds like a fantastic slice of P!O!P! and no mistake. #
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35 month ago
deusx : Waxy.org: Daily Log: Dogwelder's "My Humps" - "...a cover of Black Eyed Peas' 'My Humps,' a song that represents a low point not only for popular music, but for humankind."
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35 month ago
Rod Begbie : Free Music - Kristin Hersh has released a new EP as free creativecommons-licensed FLAC files. [via] #
Charles Miller : Free Music - Kristin (ex- Throwing Muses) Hersh's new band, 50FOOTWAVE, has a creative commons-licensed EP online called, appropriately enough, Free Music. Worth a listen. (via jwz)
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36 month ago
plasticbag : "Boy band Take That have announced that they are to reform for a tour - 10 years after they split up." - Odds of Robbie Williams joining in are substantially less than zero, I would imagine...
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