Get your mobiles out, we’re relying on you to make sure The Ark win their heat of Melodifestivalen tonight. You can hear their song, which is fabulously ABBA-esque but retains the band’s super-cool and individual style, by clicking here and you should return to the same site at 7pm tonight (UK time) to watch the… Continue reading Calling All Swedes!

Maximo Park – Our Velocity (Watch)I never loved or hate this band, although I could see the charms of Graffiti and Apply Some Pressure, and again I am quite apathetic about their new single, although it is very 80s which of course is a good thing. It’s quite messy and jerky, but that’s their style,… Continue reading New Pop On The Block

Why don’t people just listen to me when I say something is great? I was harping on about Just Jack back in 2005 (and had been a fan since 2002) and proclaiming Freeform Five to be the best electro-pop act since the Scissor Sisters in 2004 – we know what happened to Just Jack, and… Continue reading For goodness’ sake!

1. Listen to this interview with Linda Sundblad in English – just try your best to ignore the most hideously annoying interviewer ever.2. Start reading the Stylus Singles Jukebox blog if you haven’t already.3. Spin are giving away MP3s of some of the hottest new bands for the Artist of the Year feature – mostly… Continue reading To Do List

Grace (MySpace)This lot are tipped to do very well with the kind of people that buy The Feeling or Keane CDs, but really that comparison isn’t very apt cos they’re definitely more on the side of rock than pop or indie. Still, their next single, called Wonderful, is a very commercial sounding rock song, only… Continue reading The Next Big Thing?

Erik Segerstedt – I Can’t Say I’m Sorry (Watch)Sweden finally have their own Daniel Powter, and sadly he’s just as dull. The song is not unpleasant (just boring) and he’s good-looking (but in an equally boring conventional way) but that’s about all there is to say about him. He was the runner-up in Sweden’s Idol… Continue reading New Pop On The Block

So, a little while ago I sent over some questions for the young High School Musical starlet, who is currently launching her own pop career, and at last this week I received her answers. They are… succinct, but hey, she was in High School Musical! What more could you want? You’ve already recorded covers of… Continue reading Dirrrty Pop Meets… Ashley Tisdale!

A little late I know but yes I am still doing this. And for this month only, because there’s so much new ace stuff and I wanted to include all the songs that were in my chart last year but are released this year, it’s a bumper double edition! 1. Alphabeat – 10,000 Nights of… Continue reading Top of the Poptastic!

Do you plan to release anything or play any gigs in the UK?The plans so far is to release our debut album in Denmark and to tour here over the spring and in the summer. Sorry, but we don’t have any plans about the UK so far. When will your album be out in Denmark… Continue reading Dirrrty Pop Meets… Alphabeat!

Ch!pz – Cowboy (Watch)I said that Ch!pz should give it a go in the UK but I was really thinking it should be with one of their good songs. Still, they’re here and this could work. Well, if LazyTown’s terrifying single went top 5, and High School Musical mania is still gripping the country, they… Continue reading New Pop On The Block