We finally finished counting all the votes for the 2006 Readers’ Poll. There were over a thousand votes… so, um. There was a lot of counting. A couple of these are so ‘05, but maybe they were big for you in 2006?
This was fun, we’ll have to remember to do this again in ‘07. Thank [...]

Unfortch rave is back, but if it is reinventing itself like madonna, then I don’t mind so much. These guys were introduced to me by my good friend Sleazemore(watch out for this guy). I checked out their webpage and its quite a hot hoot, go check it out. They’re from London and they rock it [...]

The Knife has a free Christmas song on iTunes Store for download. “Christmas Reindeer” is basically a shorter edit of their song “Reindeer” off their 2001 debut — but with an added jingle bell effects for some extra Christmas joy. Aw, jingle bells or not, The Knife can even make Christmas a wee bit creepy.
Listen: [...]

Ruff Club has been throwing one of the best weekly parties in NYC. I’m not the only one to think so… Ruff Club was recently voted best party of the year by Paper Mag at the Nightlife Awards.
This Friday is Ruff Club’s first party with NME… with guest band We Are Scientists. Enjoy [...]

Paparazzi replaces the Neptunes’ stale drum kit on “Yummy” with “Knockout” and creates a club ready track. “Yummy Knockout” feels a bit like a rough draft… BUT it is a direction that I wish Stefani had explored on The Sweet Escape. Hell, Stefani’s rap in Paparazzi’s take doesn’t sound like she’s totally tripping over herself. [...]

Thanks to Fat Planet, I have pretty much listened to Teenagersintokyo’s “End It Tonight” like fifty five times in the past few days. Produced by Jono Ma from the Valentinos, Teenagersintokyo is another Australian band that should be destined for international love. Face it. Australia never stops.
Maybe a totally surface comparison, but Teenagersintokyo look like [...]

Just a quick reminder — if you haven’t yet voted in the 2006 Readers’ Poll then you have until Tuesday, December 12th: Go Vote!
I threw together an iTunes iMix of the nominated tracks…. iTunes had 30/50 songs so not too bad.

Woah… okay I have to first say thank you. The response to our site survey was overwhelming. I excepted like twenty responses… serious. Instead we had hundreds and hundreds. So thank you all!
And to be totally honest the past month or so I’ve felt a tad burnt out, but all your kind words are [...]

Oh how I wish Gwen Stefani’s The Sweet Escape had been worth writing about. Sure, it is charming at moments, but overall The Sweet Escape was totally uneven and really seemed nothing more than a way to cash in on the success of Love Angel Music Baby… just in time for Christmas. Hell Gwen, when [...]

Client - “Lights Go Out” (YouTube)
Client’s schtick hasn’t changed that much in the past five years… although I guess we get to see the Client’s faces now. Their new single and video has a certain Goldfrapp-ish Glam Disco influence to it. A step in a good direction.
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