Blogerati, and the Weekly Stats.

Posted by Adem on Sep 23, 2008 in Blogerati, Weekly Stats | 13 comments

Since I moved from IAR almost a year ago, I haven’t compiled a Blogerati post. Can you believe it?! What a fucking liberty… So here are some bits and bobs from all over the web, plus a few musical musings I don’t have the time to expand on.

The new single from Stuart Price The Killers, “Human,” has arrived and is, as expected, pretty bloody amazing. Produced by Madonna‘s Confessions On A Dance Floor right-hand-man Stuart Price (he’s also fiddled with knobs – hem hem – for the bands upcoming third studio album, “Day & Age”), it’s a really strong pop song that sounds like it’s going to be quite EPIC live. And as much as I kid about this being a Stuart Price single, it very distinctly IS The Killers; their sound is stamped all over this without a doubt… but Price certainly adds a unique and euphoric magical touch to it that no one else really could, doesn’t he? Do I pine for another Madonna/Price collaboration in the future? Sigh. Absolutely. I really do wonder — even though I do love “Hard Mandy” — what Stuart could have done with that album’s tracks if HE was at least the producer on that record. I guess we’ll never know, but I do think people would have been a lot happier with the final outcome.

Not surprisingly, someone has already put together a photographic video-collage onto YouTube with the full track playing along, so you can listen to it for yourself, though it may have already been deleted by the time you read this.

Speaking of Stuart, Popjustice reports that the man has been working with the ace Frankmusik on his upcoming record. They’ve even put a couple of clips up for you to listen to. So when will Stuart be remixing Girls Aloud’s “The Promise”? Hey, I can dream can’t I?

Aside from overplaying Van She’s “V” and Ladyhawke’s “Ladyhawke”, other records I’m really digging of late include Walter Meego‘s “Voyager”, Metronomy‘s “Nights Out” (read my good friend Faisal Jehan from Ohh! Crapp…‘s amazing review here), the self-titled Mercy Arms long player, Little Jackie‘s “The Stoop”, Lindstrom‘s “Where You Go I Go Too”, Cloetta Paris‘ “Secret Eyes”, Axle Whithead‘s “Losing Sleep”, Cold War Kids‘ “Loyalty To Loyalty” and new EP’s from Anoraak and Amy Meredith. I may talk about some of these long players in greater detail in the future.

I am not loving the new albums from Electric Six (I think the moment has well and truly passed with these guys; and it shows – the songs are rubbish) or The Streets which, on first listen, sounds like an artist that has well and truly reached their expiry date. Though my love affair with those guys came to a halt the second they released their sophomore album, so I’m not sure why I’m surprised.

Two new tracks have surfaced from the Ladyhawke album. One, “Danny & Jenny”, is an Australian iTunes bonus, and the other, “Oh My” is the UK bonus track. Both are VERY BLOODY GOOD. Speaking of my dear Pip Brown, in news that pleased me to NO END xolondon has totally come around and adores her debut record. He has a 12-point fact piece on The Lady which is a fabulous read, as is the singers recent interview with UK’s The Guardian, where she talks about her battle with Asperger’s Sydnrome, working with Kylie Minogue and Courtney Love, and being “the most awkward person ever.”

My weekly radio show is going really well at the moment and my passion for radio as a medium has truly been reignited to fiery levels over the last couple of weeks. I may even get off my arse and start uploading episodes of the show again, especially now that we’ll be joined on the show by the ace Patch Adams from the incredible Waves At Night.

Speaking of, something big is brewing over on the aforementioned Waves At Night. But what is it actually going to be??

And while I’m at it; something big is brewing over HERE as well. Won’t be too long before I can let the cat out of the bag…

Poster Girl - she is back! After some time away from the world of blogging, she has swiftly regained her place as one of my daily must-visits. Whilst she was gone, she heard Van She in some American clothing retailers. This is good news!

Amazingly, I have nothing new to report on Van She. Give it a couple of days.

I have three new favourite websites to introduce you to, should you not already be aware of them. First up, the sophisticated Helen Of Troy Does Countertop Writings, which I cannot even begin to explain how much I love. Lyndsey and Marie-Claire muse about the best in female-flavoured pop things, and even host their own Manchester club night called Helen Of Troy Does Countertop Dancing. My favourite pieces on the site? The Courtney Love Blog piece and the celebratory Madonna at 50 tribute both left quite the impression.

Then there is auspOp, which has been quite the place to go for Australian related industry news of late. Worth your bookmark. It does seem though, in the sites recent poll of “Madonna vs Kylie: Who reigns supreme”, people are placing their vote for the wrong person.

The third site, another Australian based one, is Fabastic! Music. So much enthusiasm and a bevy of great music reviews to read.

My darling Paul FizzyPop has written quite the brilliant FYI piece on The William Young over on his fabulous spot on the web. A real brilliantly put together piece that, as Paul does best, combines fact with humour. For example: “Not only does [Will Young] have the amazing ability to regrow hair…” It’s airquotes madness!

D’spunky D’luv has kept true to his usually brilliant form over the last couple of weeks, in particular his MTV VMA Banterview with MoogaBoo and, more recently, the gorgeous tribute to the Pet Shop Boys‘ ace album “Very.”

R.I.P. Nagi Noda; you will be sorely missed. View the last music video clip she ever directed, the incredibly ace “Precious” by MEG (a song which I have actually been playing quite a bit for the last 2 weeks; quality Jpop.)

“It’s not Top of the Pops love, it’s a fucking Katy Perry gig.” I am considering getting that quote printed on a t-shirt. More and More.

Yuri and Paul have both written reviews on Annie‘s recently leaked “Don’t Stop” (Version 1.0) record. My opinion? Bar one track (the dire “Heaven & Hell”), it’s all actually very strong stuff and will probably be in my Top 20 for the years end. I’m not going to review it though until the thing is actually released (Version 2.0) which is – apparently – still happening next month. Poor Annie…

Manastica. Heh-heh. Good remix of hers available at PopMuse too if you’re interested.

The incredible DISCODUST have the Cut Copy remix of The Kaiser Chief‘s “Never Miss A Beat” for download. It’s Very Fucking Amazing, by the way.

I’ve been meaning to post a link back to Big Stereo‘s ace interview with the seriously dishy K.I.M. from The Presets since they posted it back in July, but kept forgetting. Better late than never I guess. While you’re at it, you can then read my interview with Jules from The Presets also conducted some time ago here. We talk about Kim getting his gear off at one point you know.

Pop history on the Internet; another of my favourite new websites, Pop Comments launched a couple of weeks ago and is rather splendid reading.

EQ has announced the nominees for his EQ OF THE YEAR award. I’m placing bets on Lady GaGa or Temposhark…

The highly anticipated Soulwax remix of MGMT‘s “Kids” has finally leaked all over the web. My thoughts? After changing the pitch of the actual mp3 to make it a little faster, it is exactly the kind of – to steal Popjustice’s phrase – poppers o’clock stomper I was hoping it would be.

And finally, Lifelike has confirmed he’s remixing Van She’s “Kelly” for the songs UK release. Guess ‘a couple of days’ turned into ‘a couple of paragraphs.’  

But as if you didn’t see that coming.

Ben Blogs!

Posted by Adem on Apr 18, 2008 in Blogerati, Goldfrapp, Robyn | 0 comments

Many of you will have heard me talk about my best friend Ben on the odd occasion on this here website. In recent months, every Friday night Ben joins me as a guest on my weekly radio program. In his guest spot, Ben compiles together a list of usually little-known facts about some of your favourite pop stars and cinematic celebrities. In a move that pleases me to no end, Ben has now opened up his very own blog to showcase these lists, which are of legendary status.

* LIST 1 * Janet Jackson: “Janet’s next tour will be a series of lectures about the joys of having your period.”

* LIST 2 * Alison Goldfrapp: “Ms. Goldfrapp once slapped a fan who said they loved her in the movie Cocoon.”

* LIST 3 * Robyn: “Right now, Robyn is thinking about how much more mileage she can get from her last album.”

Add this website to your bookmarks kiddies; the list entitled “Confessions of Madonna’s Cooch” is an absolute hoot and surely on its way…

Frapp Me Up.

Posted by Adem on Nov 27, 2007 in Blogerati, CD Reviews, Goldfrapp | 9 comments

I have no intention of reviewing the stunning new Goldfrapp album, Seventh Tree, before the dawn of 2008. But when I do review this Long Player next year, don’t be surprised if I tell you it’s their best album; I have done some serious bonding with this record over the last week, to the point I’ve decided were I to have a spirit animal, it would be an oversized Owl, hugging Alison Goldfrapp on a crisp winters day. I will share this with you though; Clowns, A&E and Caravan Girl are three of the greatest Goldfrapp songs of all time. In fact, could the latter be their actual best? Maybe…

Defamer Australia have quite the Australian Idol finale wrap-up online. I have video footage to upload to YouTube soon of Divinyls‘ first ever performance for an audience in over 10 years at this event, which I’ll share with you all soon. You can imagine my shrieks of horror and disbelief when, right before the climactic end to their hit Boys In Town, the live satellite footage cut out. In place of the amazing Ms. Chrissy Amphlett, I got a green – then black – fucking screen. I wanted to end my life. How could they do this to me on their first performance in so long? Just when the thought of carbon monoxide poisoning began to cross my mind, they – thankfully – got Chrissy & co. to sing the song again. Highlights? Chrissy asking Andrew G who he was, Andrew G announcing his actual surname to Chrissy on live television when asked (my respect for this man has tripled because of this, and the fact he quite obviously loves her as much as I do made him a whole lot more attractive to me too,) Chrissy endearingly parading about for the crowd – whilst holding onto Andrew’s hand whilst talking about “the art,” “now” and “your voice.” In exactly one week, I will be seeing this woman LIVE IN HER (AND MY!) HOMETOWN. I have no idea how to cope with the excitement.

Xolondon has some seriously exciting news regarding the 2008 album from Grace Jones, and is in the midst of reviewing tracks from Kylie‘s new one, X, which you may remember I spoke of last week. Glenn over at Stale Popcorn also has some words on the matter, which – as always – are a brilliant read. Another brilliant review from the equally brilliant Pop Trash Addicts can be found here. Bit of an update as to where my ears stand with this album; I am warming to Sensitized, still not fussed by Heart Beat Rock, but now vehemently hating Spew-di-ty. It’s taken Sensitized‘s earlier place of her stinkiest effort to date. What was she thinking, I mean really?

Xo also mentions the 10 year anniversary of Michael Hutchence‘s untimely death. There’s a post I have in draft mode lingering about wordpress in his remembrance; I just haven’t been able to bring myself to finish it. There’s a lot of resentment on my part toward the remaining INXS crew for dragging the once godly band’s name through the dirt several times over the years since Michael’s death, so I haven’t gone back to writing the piece as I didn’t like how negative it had gotten, at least for a remembrance post. Maybe I’ll bring myself to pay respect for the eleventh year? I do think my INXS A.D. rant will appear in the new year however. Anyways, there is a gorgeous story about Michael on the third last page of the current copy of Inpress Magazine… I’ll try and get a scan up some time soon.

Paul‘s zapping his way through Christmas in tres hot style. I almost want him to adopt John Waters‘ train of thought in that Christmas should be an all-year thing and keep the festive design 4 LYF. The new look also marks the beginning of The Zapping’s advent calendar, which I’ll be contributing to sometime soon…

The beautiful Poster Girl has some news on the upcoming Blake Lewis album, including excerpts from a review of the record from the L.A. Times, which has gotten me seriously hot under the collar. It should be noted that it is all your doing, dear Poster Girl, that I am now completely obsessed with this man…

The impeccable D’luv over at Chart Rigger has gone local politics on our arses, and congratulated us Aussie’s on our new leader, Kevin Rudd. Yay! This was the first election I’ve actually given a shit about in this country and am happy that the lesser of two evils will now run my home. The Kyoto Protocol is being signed, and an appetizing broadband plan is on the way; hopefully he will be abolishing the GST from Tampons and sanitary items which previous PM John Howard dared to label “luxury items.” Fingers crossed something is done about these ridiculous IR workplace agreement laws, which have already shafted me good and hard this year…

Dr. Hules throws a tic-tac down the Burnley Tunnel. Too good…

FUNBONGO – I IZ IN UR OFFICE, MAYKING U WRIGHT. COME BACK!!! Where for art thou, Funbongo? Meanwhile, the ace Pop Unlimited returns on December 1st, whilst Digital Technique return with some seriously ace musings.

Meanwhile, the Girls Aloud Mafia blog continues to deliver the goods in the greatest quality LOLCAT speak you will ever experience, and Kirkland Ciccone relaunches his Pop hell podcast home with a swish new look…

Robyn has RIGHTFULLY won DSTPop‘s Female of 2007 award in the DSTP music awards. Have a read through all the other categories too…

One of my favourite music websites Ohh! Crap… have interviewed CAP10KURT, who I am loving very much. Read (and listen to) more…

Worrapolava; you know what he’s like!

Looking for a CD to pop on your iPod for the Gym? Pop Muse delivers. I can guarantee this is an exceptional download and one that had me slipping over in puddles of my own sweat (guk) at the gym today.

PHEW.

Dance Classics

Posted by Adem on Nov 6, 2007 in Blogerati, Radio | 2 comments

Almost two weeks ago I threw together a dance classics edition of my weekly radio show, Inside Splinters. It’s a regular thing I’ve incorporated into the show and happens on the last Friday of every month. The following podcast is a recording of the show from the 26th of October which – hilariously – was the last Friday of that month, and spawned the very first visit into the Inside Splinters time machine.

Pretty much every single one of these songs is a personal favourite; some of them haven’t aged well but that’s besides the point. They were great at the time, and the memories are still there. Anyways, this recording also includes a live telephone conversation between myself and the delightful Paul from The Zapping, which is worth the download alone really.

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Eartha Kitt – Where Is My Man 2000
Danube Dance – Unique
Club 69 – Let Me Be Your Underwear (Slicker Nicker Disco Mix)
The Shamen – LSI (Love Sex Intelligence)
DeLacy – That Look
Olive – You’re Not Alone
Moby – Move (Kid Paul Remix)
Rollo Goes Mystic – Love Love Love (Here I Come)
The Movement – Jump
Deuce – Call It Love (JX Kissy Kissy Remix)
Felix – Don’t You Want Me ’95 (Candy Girls Remix)
E-zee Possee – Everything Starts With An E ’96
Haddaway – Life
The Source – Sanctuary Of Love
Urban Cookie Collective – Feels Like Heaven
Urban Cookie Collective – High On A Happy Vibe
M People – One Night In Heaven
Duke – So In Love With You (Full Intention Remix)
DaHool – Meet Her At The Love Parade (Nalin & Kane Remix)
Infinity – Dirty Love
Morris Minor & The Majors – Stutter Rap
Ruth Campbell – This Is It

GlennMP3.

Posted by Adem on Oct 29, 2007 in Blogerati, MP3, Radio | 1 comment

The delightful Glenn from Stale Popcorn appeared on my radio show Inside Splinters 2 weeks ago, and I have finally gotten off my arse and uploaded the effort. I think you’ll find it is hilarious, random, and great. Please note: Heidi Sugababe cops a bit of a beating during some of the talk breaks – this doesn’t actually reflect my thoughts on her (I love the woman.) She just happened to be the easy target on the night.

This gone Friday I hosted the Dance Classics Edition of Inside Splinters, which I actually think was my best show yet. Well, it was the one I enjoyed most… That’s coming online tomorrow. But back to Glenn…

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TRACKLISTING
Rogue Traders – Candy Coloured Lights
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always Kill
The Hives – Giddy Up
Kelis – Young, Fresh & New
Soho Dolls – Prince Harry
Hilary Duff – Dignity
Groove Armada & Mutya – Song 4 Mutya (Kissy Sellout Mix)
Moulinex – Break Chops
Justice – D.A.N.C.E. (Stuart Price Remix)
Motiv8 – Break The Chain
Sugababes – Easy (Ultrabeat Mix)
Olivia Newton-John & ELO – Xanadu
Rogue Traders – What You’re On
Annie Lennox & 8 Million other women – Sing (Moto Blanco Mix)
Girls Aloud – Call The Shots (Tony Lamezma Mix)
Bloody Beetroots – I Love The Bloody Beetroots
Operaor Please – Just A Song About Ping Pong (Kissy Sellout Mix)
Boys Noize – & Down
The Hives – You Got It All Wrong
Divinyls – Siren Song
The Royal We – Al The Rage
Rogue Traders – Throw Your Arms Around Me
Sugababes – Surprise (Goodbye)
JoJo – Beautiful Girls

iLink.

Posted by Adem on Aug 24, 2007 in Blogerati | 7 comments

So what’s been happening on websites other than this one since my last Blogerati post? As you’d expect – seeing as that was well and truly a month ago – lots.

Australian Idol began here in, er, Australia, and a country rejoiced at the return of Scott, 2 Be Certain‘s triumphant Idol scribblings. 90% of the reason I watch Idol is so I can kill myself laughing week in, week out over on Scott’s blog. His latest post rates each of the final 24 on their likelihood of success out of 10, lists an anagram or two for each of the contestants names, and officially endorses Matt Corby (pictured, left,) who is by far my early favourite (and really fucking easy on the eyes too), along with the wee lass sporting the Lindy Chamberlain haircut. Scott’s top 24 round-up is quite possibly one of his finest, finest hours. Right up there with the Marcia God.

Pop Trash Addicts is shaping up to be one of my actual favourite websites of the year. It is like reading the minds of my best friend Ben & I, and like the conversations we have together in the car listening to tragic brilliance from Shakaya, Sirens, Joanne (who once told Ben in an email many years ago she was working on a second album that was “very edgy.” As Ben said, “so edgy it never saw the light of day!”) and other delights our fine nation has brought to the world of pop. There is news on Melissa Tk-tk-tk-tk-auktz, (who may very well still be waiting for me to call her and do that interview we’d organised back in 2005… er… oops?) a post honouring pop goddess and attitude-filled angel Samantha Fox, info on the sexing-up of Roxane-off-of-idol, ONJ and even some Slinkee Minx (who you may recall I interviewed on this site in very early 2006… will be re-posting that chat sometime next week in honour of their ace new album, which PTA have reviewed here.) PTA, like me and millions of others across the globe, love Dannii too, and have a sister site (*boomTISH*) called Dannii’s Dirty Box, which is just as fabulous.

Speaking of Dannii, now that The X-Factor has begun in the UK, the IAR Official Dannii-Watch campaign begins once more. Each week, I’ll be discussing – quite meticulously – the finer details of D’s hair, make-up, attire, leg-stances, and flirtatious giggles directed at Simon. Could she be any more incredible? The answer is a resounding YES; we should all be honoured to be sharing the same air Dannii Minogue breathes in.

Paul‘s got THE BEST X-Factor first episode round-up I’ve read online over at The Zapping. And I quote: “Another woman is quite good… Nerves make her do a split second jazz hands during I Will Always Love You, so points for individuality. Oh and she has some dead relative who inspired her to audition.” Fucking awesome. Paul also had a yarn with Deborah Gibson at the beginning of August too. This is also something you should read.

Worrapolava talks about the incredibly sad end of French & Saunders, with a CHOICE selection of classic clips, including two of their best Madonna skits to date. God LOVE those bitches. There’s also a link to a really great interview with the duo from The Times.

Imogen Heap‘s been a bit busy of late, and xolondon‘s reported quite marvelously on her goings-on. There are also some very pretty pictures of Annie Lennox and, as reported earlier last week, Xo’s magnificent review of the Darren Hayes‘ album.

Another of my favourite new websites is Pop Unlimited, which, during its time with us, has featured Jam & Spoon, Deuce, The Tamperer, Human League and Grace (I just loved “Skin On Skin”), just to name a legendary few. And all in impressively great detail. Acerben, who runs the site, has the absolute greatest taste in classic dance this side of the internet – aside from mine of course.

The delightful Poster Girl has absolute bonza posts on the High School Musical II soundtrack, the fucking ace new Martin Stenmarck track, and the gorgeous Roni Duani.

I saw French scary flick Ils over the weekend and, knowing he’d watched it, rushed over to Glenn‘s Stale Popcorn to announce my feelings to him through the power of blog commenting. There’s some interesting intel on Glenn’s site regarding the US remake of the film starring Liv Tyler. I’m not at all convinced though that this will be any good – the original scared the living shit out of me (I only realised how much today, mind) and prompted one of my all time WORST nightmares last night… (5 FUCKING DAYS LATER! Now THAT’S an intense reaction!)

In what was probably the most important Internet pop revival of the month of August, D’Luv at Chartrigger discussed the absolute greatest song from the Who’s That Girl soundtrack and 3rd greatest Stock/Aitken/Waterman production of all time, Michael Davidson‘s “Turn It Up.” An army of pop lovers bowed down at the feet of D’Luv and thanked him for the precious gift.

Another blog-retrospective which was just as enjoyable came about on eMackinations, in the form of a classy collection of photographs and clips involving the trashtastic Marky Mark. Oh yes.

The outstanding William at Fop announced his spunky blog was to be no more.
Thankfully, the CFBGoesPop girls returned shortly after.

Clem Bastow, she of ridiculously good beauty and excellence, began writing for the already top-notch Defamer. Her first piece was not only quite good indeed, but it also incorporated the genius LOLcats craze, which is very much my favouritest thing in the whole wide world at the moment.

Electroqueer have a collection of shoddily filmed Darren Hayes @ G.A.Y clips which are actually worth a go. There’s also info on how to purchase Nelson Clemente’s new music, a guy I’ve been meaning to talk about on here for ages but keep forgetting to. Anyways, he’s very good and EQ have done a much better job than I of endorsing his brilliance.

Don’t Stop The Pop spoke to Steve Anderson! The interview is aces beyond words and touches on the subjects of Rent Remixed, Kylie X, Robyn and, of course, Willy Baker.

Bop Pop posted some pictures of the glamorous Fergie with some weird looking blokes, two pairs of rave-wear sunglasses not being worn by Calvin Harris (and, therefor, somewhat irrelevant), and a pair of ug-boots being worn by a fat cow that used to sing songs and sell records.

G’night!
xo Adem.

Giveth with one hand, taketh with the other.

Posted by Adem on Jul 10, 2007 in Blogerati | 1 comment

God (pictured, left, candidly straddling a boombox over the weekend) works in mysterious ways. She delivers joy, but whilst you are celebrating, she quite rudely rips something away from you. Unfortunately because of her general greatness, you just cannot question her madness–as they say, there is obviously a method to it and who am I to judge a decision God Almighty herself has made. It still saddens me though.

Let’s start with the bad news. It seems that the totally amazing Samuel, who runs the totally amazing Hotstufffiles (it’s all one bloody word!) has closed down his gorgeous labour of love for good. THIS UPSETS ME GREATLY. Over the past year it has been an absolute pleasure chatting to the lovely Samuel about nonsensical garbage like Jay-Z‘s role in Rihanna‘s “Umbrella,” Girls Aloud flunking it down under, and other fabulous tomfoolery. He even allowed me to scribble my own series of shit for a couple of weeks in an accidentally ill-fated weekly column. So thank you Samuel, your site has provided me with much entertainment and laughs over the last 12 months plus, and it is incredibly sad to see you go.

NOW for the hand that giveth! You may remember how mortified I was when Popalastic closed its doors earlier in the year. Thankfully, they have come to their senses and taken note that the interweb’s median land price’s have sunk to an all time low since their self-imposed eviction from the world of pop and–in order to save us all–are returning with a totally jazzed up new look. Huzzah! You can read the exciting message of hope for yourself (complete with peacock-friendly photography) here.

Thank you for the music, Goodbye my friend, bye bye Miss American Pie; we’ll miss you Hotstufffiles. Welcome back Popalastic.

Blogwatch.

Posted by Adem on May 25, 2007 in Blogerati | 1 comment

To make up for my absence, I think it’s high time I invested a bit of web-space to a blogerati round-up. Here’s the online goodness that’s been fondling my senses whilst I should be studying…

The woman to your left is the little-known sister of Dannii Minogue. She’s looking a bit spectacular right now and xolondon has some lovely shots of her for your viewing pleasure. There is also a tidbit on the new Garbage track (thank you xo!) and a pretty accurate review of the new Sophie Ellis-Bextor album. Unless I decide to withdraw it, my review of that should be online tomorrow some time.

The gorgeous Paul and his Zapping are “fizzing at the slit” over Maroon 5 at the moment. I’m yet to listen to the album in full but I have bought it solely on Paul’s recommendation, so if I dislike it I’ll know who to send the receipt to. Paul was even lucky enough to have a chin wag with the quite-good-looking Adam Levine. FANTASTIC read.

Samuel‘s VERY ACTUAL LEGENDARY The Hotstuff Files somehow manages to get better as the days roll on. Today there is a piece on Steph McIntosh‘s UK launch, and how pop is always better in Australia. TELL THAT TO THE THOUSANDS OF AUSTRALIAN’S WHO MADE SANDI THOM, HINDER, EVERMORE AND MISSY FUCKING HIGGINS NUMBER BLOODY ONE ON THE SINGLES CHARTS THIS YEAR. And would you believe that in the space of a couple of weeks, Hotstuff and the ace Pop Trash Addicts have made mention of Girlband? One day I’ll write up my story with photographic evidence of their ridiculous children’s clothing line at K-Mart. Oh yes folks, I’m actually being serious. In the meantime, you can read other things I’ve said about them.

Fun Fongo is one of those new sites I cannot stop “refreshing”. Great content, very very funny stuff, bookmark this baby.

Speaking of Aussie pop, there is a heavy mention of IAR favourite/possibly convicted drug user Katie Underwood over at the rather delightful A Kind Of Love In. Pinkie‘s pretty ace, yeah?

The TV advert for the alarming new range of Sugababes Barbie dolls can be found at Bop Pop. Seeing is believing kids…

The mardy CFBGoesPop girls have got a hilarious few pieces on things that are better than Lily Allen. When I asked my mother what she thought was better than Lily Allen, she said “world war”. We’ve already established my mother is not Lily’s biggest fan in the past.

Speaking of Lily Allen, Chartrigger has a bit on the whole Cheryl Tweedy v Lily saga, which I refuse to talk about on the website because I think both of them are being absolute fuckwits. J’ason – calling Lily a “two-bit transexual” will certainly make my mothers day when I tell her tomorrow.

Robpop over at Don’t Stop The Pop! is predicting a girlband revival of 2007. Yet another blog mention of Girlband! That crazy Columbian group who’ve covered The Aloud‘s “Something Kinda Ooooh” were mentioned first at the Pop by the way, further cementing why they’re a bit fucking good at what they do down there.

NEW TIFFANY VIDEO CLIP OVER AT ELECTROQUEER!! Raj is my newest MySpace friend who’s site I heart, PS.

There is talk of Deborah Hutton liking the cunt over at Luke‘s brill Billable Units. I HAVE IT ON VERY GOOD AUTHORITY SHE’S QUITE THE RUG MUNCHER.

William‘s marvellous Fop has looked into the Young Divas crystal ball, predicting big things in the form of 90′s dance classics in their future. I may talk on this topic a little more next week some time.

Londonboy has more nice-to-look-at shots of Dima Koldun wearing next to nothing.

I am not the only one who enjoyed Geri Halliwell‘s “Passion” album apparently. And neither are the lovely people down at Lost In Limbo…

The fabulous Patrick gets into gritty detail on the worst Coles Supermarket in Canberra. Hilariously good read.

R.I.P. Popalastic, you’re being missed already

One of my must-visit-daily reads is Pop Poster Girl‘s totally primo blog. Is this lady one of the pop worlds best bloggers? Yes, yes she is. A favourite story of mine this week is about a boy with lovely eyes.

Both the brilliant Scott, 2 Be Certain and Popjustice discuss Kelly Clarkson‘s new album cover. Hopefully what’s on the actual CD isn’t as shit as that new single.

New bookmarks added to the side link-up this week, including fellow Geelong-boy Glenn‘s remarkable Stale Popcorn, It’s like 2 Unlimited; but it’s not – it’s Pop Unlimited, more goodness at Whudahexup!, and the charming Worrapolava, which I added about a month ago but keep forgetting to mention.

Also, Retro Remixes is one of the greatest new websites you will visit.

GOOD DAY TO YOU ALL! See you in a few hours for Sophie EB stuff.

I Like To Clicky Clicky Clicky…

Posted by Adem on Apr 13, 2007 in Blogerati, Website | 0 comments

Myself, Pop Poster Girl and Raj from Electroqueer are the first lot of Blogerati to host our own weekly columns for splendid pop music website The Hotstuff Files.

So far mine has been running for two weeks which – as it turns out – would mean there are two column entires. I have absolutely no idea what I’ll write about next week but I shall cross that bridge when I get to it, right?

This week I have spoken about how the fusion of Music & Television can change the way you feel about a featured song.

Last week I spoke about the whole Girls Aloud OZ Promo Tour 2006 vs Westlife OZ Promo Tour 2006 debacle. This particular column entry is infinitely better than this weeks, but what can you do.

Bookmark the new column and clicky-clicky. Have a good weekend…

Bag of Lollies.

Posted by Adem on Mar 7, 2007 in Blogerati | 1 comment

First of all, let me talk about this album to your left. It’s by an Alternative (!) band from Ireland called La Rocca, and it is titled “The Truth”. One of the greatest songs to ever feature a piano, “Non Believer”, features on this very album, and it is seriously breathtaking. If you like the first-album Keane stuff, really enjoy a heartfelt piano riff that comes from absolutely nowhere, or really quite enjoy the mellow-ish guitar strummings heard on One Tree Hill, then you are going to love not only La Rocca’s best song, but their whole album too.

Before I go on, PLEASE visit their MySpace and listen to “Non Believer”, the first song included on their MySpazz Music Player. The fabulous piano bit comes in just a bit after the 3:15 mark, and goes till about 4:00. Absolutely amazing stuff.

“Non Believer” was introduced to me through an episode of One Tree Hill, which I mentioned last week has become a serious obsession of mine during non-study periods of my day. A song so bloody beautiful, it encouraged me to investigate the group further. After listening to an, um, hem-hem, totally legal download of the album, it had engaged me so much that I promptly whipped out a credit card (apologies to whomever’s card I used), and am now awaiting a proper copy of the album to arrive in my mailbox from the UK. And had this record actually been released THIS year rather than in August 2006, it would probably be sitting at about Number 4 on my albums of the year thus far.

NOW THAT’S OUT OF THE WAY – The tallying for the My Favourite Pop Record is almost over. I spent a large portion of my weekend counting up print outs, and will spend the next couple of days doing more of that. Hopefully by the start of April, I’ll have the complete results – with added Blogerati commentary – online and ready to roll.

Speaking of the Blogerati, Paul from The Zapping has relocated his swishy site to an even swishy-er (?!) domain home. All of Paul’s ace scribblings can now be found at www.thezapping.com.

It seems the All Saints have been dropped by Parlophone after 4 people bought their Studio 1 album. Oh dear. More at The Hotstuff and at Bop Pop…

I forgot to mention this some time back, but xolondon‘s written up the mightiest and most correct review of Paddy Wolf‘s “The Magic Position” album. Best I’ve seen on the web and the one I agree the most with.

Those crazy, gorgeous, et cetera CFBGoesPop! Girls have turned 4 years old this month. Happy Birthday you mardy nutbags!!

THERE IS EXCELLENT FEMALE SPUN DANCE POP BEING FEATURED ON POSTER GIRL. “Though I’m not sure that it’s technically a special, I think that’s what the songs will be the next four days” says Ms. Poster Girl. BRING. IT.

The ace Popalastic seems to have returned, and disappeared again. COME BACK FOR GOODNESS SAKES!

Paul from The Zapping has contributed a piece about Love on Pinkie‘s A Kind Of Love In. And in a legendary turn of events, he (briefly) mentions De’Lacey‘s “Hideaway” in said piece. DO YOU REMEMBER HOW GREAT THAT SONG WAS? I sure do folks.

Popjustice has finally mentioned Van She – well, their on-the-side, remix project Vanshe Tech – on the front page. Now to attempt for the six millionth time: getting people interested in Van She’s original material…

Don’tStopThePop now have a tremendous theme song!

Kelis plans on doing the reality TV thing. More details at the ultra-fab Chart Rigger.

I suppose I better get back to studying then.

iFerg.

Posted by Adem on Feb 7, 2007 in Blogerati | 1 comment

If there are no updates on the site for the rest of the week, you’ll have to forgive me, but I’m picking up my brand new iMac Computer today and, after having a PC for well over 10 years, to say there’s going to be some soul searching to be done would be an understatement. I’m excited, nervous, scared, thrilled… it’s like losing my virginity all over again.

Anyways, in the meantime, I’ve been noble enough (!) to provide you with some things to do and places to see, whilst I’m on this brief, 3 day hiatus.

First of all, here is the new video clip for Fergie‘s “Glamorous”.

This is easily the 2nd best song from Fergie’s brilliant debut album (SHE SPELLS IN THE SONG. SPELLING IN POP IS MAGNIFICENT!) and the clip lives up to the songs brilliance. The clip features a glamorous 2007 Fergie, and a 1994 slightly-less glamorous Fergie. Genius really.

Also, all over the Internet…

The Hotstuff Files have the brand new Avril Lavigne single for streaming. It’s called “Girlfriend”. It’s so good that it sits comfortably at Number #1 on my chart for 2007 thus far.

Long time commenter and good friend Luke Woodsman has finally opened up his own blog. It’s called Billable Units, and it is fabulous.

The guys at Chart Rigger continue to burn their “on-fire” flame higher than anyone else, this time with some Birthday Greetings for everyone’s dear friend Rick Astley. Oh Yes.

Bop Pop has news on poor Mark Owen‘s breaking-of-hand incident, along with some hilarious Cameron Diaz/JustinE Timberlake gossip doing the rounds.

Edward O‘s amazing Enthusiastic But Mediocre continues to dazzle and, whilst this may be quite an old post, his top 100 singles of 2006 is still the greatest reads you’ll ever dive into online.

Girlfriend appreciation month has begun at the newly re-opened CFBGoesPop. There will be an IAR related submission for Girlfriend mania at some point next week…

Emackinations have a delightful photo of a young man on a skateboard.

Over at my sister site, the Australian themed Trang Pak’s Burn Book, you’ll find the Australian Princess finale write up AND some scribblings on The Biggest Loser.

Talent in a Previous Life have a delightful photo of Girls Aloud dressed as school girls.

Speaking of Nicola & Co, the quite wonderful Synth Me Spaghetti have the brand new Girls Aloud vs Sugababes video clip on offer, the Comic Relief aided cover of Aerosmith vs Run DMC’s “Walk This Way”. The clip turns an ordinary/terrible cover into an all out brilliant affair. “Our” Nic’s fringe is quite spectacular in said clip, mind, whilst Sarah seems to have forgotten to change after the “Ooooh…” video clip. Oops.

The gorgeous Jess from Ausculture is in a state since hearing her year old made up word of “Sezbian” is going to be used in a future episode of Neighbours.

Poster Girl has some online goodies in the form of Akcent MP3s. Apparently, they have other songs besides their ode to the other Minogue, “Kylie”. Who knew?!!!

Don’t Stop The Pop have the brand new Robyn CD cover, which is quite arty to look at. They also have news on the working title for Kylie’s 10th Studio album (as opposed to her 10 greatest hits collections).

See you next week, unless I figure out the iMac before then!!!

xo

Touch-base Tuesday.

Posted by Adem on Jan 16, 2007 in Blogerati | 0 comments

While I’ve been spending the early stages of this week in a sleepless, zombie-like frazzle, other members of the Blogerati have been quite productive. Let’s take a look at the goings on around the world wide web…

The Hotstuff Files are – like myself – in quite the state to see that Simon Webbe (ex Blue member) is no longer sporting his trademark hat. The end is indeed nigh.

XO & his Middle Eight are currently listening to the delightful sounds of Lucky Soul, who I’d not heard of until this post. Grace Jones (pictured, left), the pop star with the sharpest shoulder-pads in music history, is apparently quite the fan of them as well.

If you’re like me and don’t actually live in the UK, you might be incredibly curious to find out what’s going on in the UK Celebrity Big Brother House, staring Jermaine Jackson (!!!), Jo O’ChinO’Meara and H “The Gay” from Steps. Luckily for us, the amazing Talent In A Previous Life are providing the world with day to day recaps, proving to be much more entertaining than Jo O’Meara’s solo album.

Paul at The Zapping not only has a sexy new look for his blog, but has also managed to squeeze in appreciation of Deborah Gibson‘s AH-MAH-ZHING 2001 single “M.Y.O.B”, which, long-time readers may remember, was featured on the now (temporarily?) defunct 1001 Greatest Pop Songs website mid last year.

Speaking of Deborah, ace new Magablog A Kind Of Love In has also managed to feature the lovely Ms. Gibson. Pinkie – the lovely man who runs the site – discusses his loin-approval for Eric Mabius, the rather gorgeous-as-fuck boss of Betty, seen on the splendid TV show Ugly Betty. You may remember him as the sexy-as-sin Dean Jack Hess from the OC last year, or as the boy bumming Joshua Jackson in the movie Cruel Intentions.

#1 Hits From Another Planet is featuring some delightfully good electro-pop courtesy of Emmon, in the form of an mp3. There’s also a lovely Lady-themed EP available for download too.

RobPop & Mark over at Don’t Stop The Pop have announced their Top 10 songs of 2006, with a rightful placing of Silvia Night‘s “Congratulations” at Number #2.

Chart Rigger adds some interesting detail to the whole Robbie Williams vs Ashley Hamilton (he-of-former-Shannen-Doherty-nuptial-fame) debacle over who actually wrote Williams’ “She’s Madonna“. Robbie seems to be spending more time in court these days than Eminem did several years back.

Anthony Callea has done one of those “what’s on your iPod” lists for iTunes, and the fabulous Poster Girl has analyzed every single one of the tracks on said list. Callea likes X-Tina, The Pussycunt Moles, Nick Lachey and – quite sadly – Augie March, who I explained had been responsible for “supplying many Australian’s with reasons to off themselves since their first EP release in 1998″ in Stylus Magazine last year.

Split Chick over at Tip Top Pop has a Live-mania Kylie Minogue megapost up at the moment, with downloadable audio moments from some of Kylie’s biggest tours, including her take on Madge’s “Vogue” on the recent leg of her Showgirl Tour.

Jess has updated Ausculture and has bid farewell to the amazing Will from Fop, who’s moving to the UK forever, leaving all of his VERY SAD AUSTRALIAN FRIENDS BEHIND. We’ll miss you oh-so-much Will, thanks for being so very special to all. xo

Patrick at PopGoesCanberra has returned from his holiday in third world country Tasmania. Since his return, he’s made the time to comment “here and there” on the ENTIRE TOP 50 AUSTRALIAN ARIA SINGLES CHART. What a fucking gun!

Over at Karinski.net, there’s some serious loving headed toward Mark Ronson, Ms. E. Bextor, and the use of the word “Emop”. Brilliance all round.

The superb Popalastic has news on Australia’s latest “apparent” new Pop Princess. Her name is Suzy Ray, her first single is called “Disco In My Car”, there is speculation that she may enjoy sex with her siblings and cows, and she is without a MySpace page. This is never a good thing folks (“Which bit?!!” – You). A band by the name of Clay Pigeon that I was banging on about last year suddenly broke up after recording their first demo CD, and they too were WITHOUT A MYSPACE PAGE. The curse of MySpace is an evil thing, and if Suzy Ray wants anyone to buy her incredibly shithouse-but-listenable single, she’d better get out of the depression and hop to joining the rest of the world in the year 2007 by ‘getting to it’.

Popjustice.com are raving about Calvin Harris, and (once again) they’re quite right in doing so. Calvin recently turned the average All Saints single “Rock Steady” into an absolute dancefloor stomper. What a pity not even God himself could turn the rest of their album into anything remotely worth listening to.

The always controversial and quite fantastic Kirkland Ciccone has launched a new website, which has some quite dazzling moments to be found within.

Finally, if you’re after Australian Princess Updates, you might wanna head over to my other website, the slightly more Australian-TV-Culture-tinged Trang Pak’s Burn Book.

I need to lay down.

God Returns, Links & Other Matters.

Posted by Adem on Nov 9, 2006 in Blogerati | 0 comments

HOW AMAZING WAS THE O.C. ON TUESDAY NIGHT AUSTRALIA? AND HOW SPLENDID IS IT THAT CHANNEL 10 IS SCREENING THE O.C. “AS IT HAPPENS” IN THE US OF A? And unlike Jericho (What is a “Jericho”?), The O.C. is worth watching: and how amazing was the first episode?! Let us all take a moment to reflect on how much of a wise choice it was to use Placebo‘s cover of the Kate Bush masterpiece “Running Up That Hill” to drive the most gripping scenes of the season opener, shall we?

Excellent.

So how’s our cast going without Mischa? Well, Melinda Clarke/God who plays Julie Cooper-Nichol-Roberts/God is set to have one of her best seasons yet (tragic yet brilliant in a Jackie-Collins-Novel kind of way), Ryan looks very nice with his new hair cut; a punched up/bleeding face and 3 day growth make him look a hundred times hotter than he EVER has, Seth is still ridiculously fun, The Cohen‘s are still huggable, my soft spot for Taylor is still very active and as for Summer… well, Summer’s off finding herself at University, making hash cookies with Heather Mills-McCartney and protesting against those who eat chicken. I KNOW. If Mischa wasn’t dead she’d be bitch slapping Summer with a Fendi hand-bag made out of ACTUAL CHICKEN’S FOR THIS RIDICULOUS BEHAVIOR. OR SOMETHING. Although it must be said Summer’s hair has actually never looked QUITE AS FABULOUS as it does this season. This season: almost exciting me more than Tripping Over has been which – thanks to the lovely Paul over at The Zapping for informing me – has begun screening on Channel 5 in the UK. So go watch.

Speaking of links and the like, I’ll be updating my links page over the weekend/Monday morning, so if you feel your website deserves a plug on there or know of one I may thoroughly enjoy visiting, fire through an email and I’ll hop to it. Also, that Stock/Aitken/Waterman radio special I threw together earlier this month will be up for download next week, much like Madonna Album Madness which also lands next week. Am still very much in the middle of organising the purchase of my new car after my old one died 3 weeks ago, so I haven’t really had the time and energy I’d like to devote to said Madge piece.

Some Quick Facts you could probably do without:

> The new McFly album is still very good.

> I was so happy hearing that Britney had kicked Fed-Ex to the curb that I took the day off from work when it happened. To watch TV.

> Australian Idol is now more tedious to watch than Big Brother was this year.

> My hair cut with Vesna on Saturday went very well thank you.

> I had Wednesday off work. It was lovely and just what I needed after the SHITTEST 2.5 weeks of my life.

> I’ve spent most of my free time this week watching the Season 1 DVD of Ally McBeal. It’s been an emotional ride.

> My phone bill will be arriving in the post soon.

> It is just about bed time.

Hooroo then!

Previously on "Other Brilliant Blogs"…

Posted by Adem on Sep 26, 2006 in Blogerati | 3 comments

I was going to discuss the new Janet album “20 Y.O.” with you all at some stage this week. It’s not very good you see, and I thought I had quite a bit to say on the matter. But it seems that the genius xolondon has managed to sum up how I feel in one sentence: “Thanks for nothing, slut!”. Indeed. You can read xo’s hilarious review in full right about here.

Whilst we’re on the subject of spectacular journalism, Hules over at Hulestopia has written up a report of sorts detailing poor Naomi Robson’s terrifying experiences trapped in an Indonesian jail cell the other week. Apparently: “The amount of abuse was mind-blowing. Some of the names that were thrown at me included ‘dog’, ‘white she-devil’, ‘coke addict’, but I think the one that cut me the most was ‘Tracey’. Naomi starts to sob uncontrollably, “and that was just at the airport when I got home.” As you can see, this is nothing short of splendid. Story in full…

Jess from Ausculture got quite a sight (and sound!) last week whilst situated on Brunswick Street, whilst the equally as brilliant Clem from Lightning Struck Itself has been to the Royal Melbourne Show. She’s eaten almost as much as I will when I go on Friday night.

The delightful Ella from Don’t Stop The Pop has put together a post made in Fashion Week Heaven. Up for grabs in MP3 format is some Girls Aloud, Carmen Electra (!), Naomi Campbell and what could very well be the best Pay TV song in existence, “Top Model”. I suggest you walk the runway over to ‘the pop pronto and grab these “whilst they are still hot.”

The amazing Hotstuff Files have Intel on what La Stevens of the Rachel variety and La Minogue of the Dannii variety have both been up to. One is half naked and the other is in trouble with the law. Fascinating.

Scott, To Be Certain is, with no shade of doubt, the BEST PLACE to read about the current progression of Australian Idol this season. Not only does the Marcia-god consistently feature, but now there are KKK references which have to be read to be believed. Truly inspiring.

And finally, the lovely Poster Girl over at, er, Poster Girl, has supplied us all with an in depth history of a boy band I obsessed over for about 3 months in 1999, A1. MP3′s, You-Tube clips and much more can be found by heading over there.

Sensational.

Even Denis Leary sang about me once.

Posted by Adem on Aug 15, 2006 in Australian Pop, Axle, Blogerati | 2 comments

I am such an asshole.

Whilst having an absolute fit of hysteria with html coding on the website links page, I noticed that I indeed have been a cunt of the highest order and not included a couple of grand sites.

First of all, there is the genius Clem Bastow and her tremendous blog, Lightning Struck Itself. Currently, Clem is trying to decide as to whether she wishes to pursue a career in Air Traffic Control and becoming a sex therapist, amongst other things. She also just happens to be one of the best street press journo’s in this country, which obviously means her blog is like a top shelf spirit – ie: VERY GOOD INDEED.

Then, the absolutely wondrous Popalastic.com – based in Australia and full of well written Oz-related pop music intel. It is very good, I have loved it for months, but thanks to the last remains of my frazzled brain only working on the odd occasion, I somehow forgot to add the link to the site when I tizzed it up.

And finally, here is the amazing and downright SPECTACULAR XO’s Middle Eight, which is probably one of the most interesting websites you will ever head on over to. Xolondon, who runs this fabulous blog, is also a big fan of coloured text, which I completely approve of. I must say though, I’m not as much of a prick for not placing this site up on the links page as I am with Popalastic – I only discovered XO’s marvelous place on the web last week. I believe the relaunch may have happened prior to that week. So there is an excuse for that, but, again, not one of decent explanation for failing to add the ‘lastic.

Thank heavens then that I have now updated the links page. All three of these magnificent sites are now ‘live’ in said section.

NOW. The pretty picture of Axle Whitehead is there for a reason. After inspecting this weekends Video Hits on Channel 10, it was nice to see that Axle’s role as a music television host has somewhat improved. Greatly. Which of course makes it much easier to find him attractive, does it not? Yes, he started off as a bit of a wanker, but my god, somewhere between a few weeks ago and Sunday morning, he actually turned into a proper host. One that looks like he now knows what he’s doing! When did this happen? Overnight? I can’t think of any other explanation. THIS NEW FOUND AXLE LOVE HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REALLY NICE DREAM I HAD WITH HIM IN IT THE OTHER NIGHT. NOTING AT ALL.

Before any of you get ready to fire up the comments with “Adem IAR, you have actually lost the fucking plot, haven’t you?”, WAIT TILL YOU HEAR WHAT I HAVE TO SAY NEXT.

Kyle Sandilands, judge on Australian Idol. His comments so far this season on the show have – I’d hate to say it – not only been funny, but on the mark pretty much every time. I’m fairly certain he has the same idea going through his head as we all do: “Please, no more ugly Idols.”

In the space of two nights, Kyle has managed to spit forth some of the greatest insults seen in the shows history. Let’s take a look at a couple of the highlights:

“You look like a snake that’s just eaten a goat.”

“You really need to shave those pubes off your head.”

“Just bear in mind that this is not Catholic Idol.”

If he ever says “you’re a bit shit, aren’t you?”, then I will probably hail him a national hero.

It makes you wonder why he’s still with Tamara Jabber though, doesn’t it? Maybe she has a lovely personality. Or maybe he finally put that mouth of hers to some good use.