Music today isn’t all Fearne Cotton ruining your favourite bands, discovering and becoming bored of an ‘EXCITING NEW ACT’ in the space of 9 minutes thanks to Twitter and lamenting The Good Old Days when you’d pop into Woolworths on a Saturday to see what exciting new single by S.O.A.P & co was out. But there is a fuckload lot of tripe out there, so the least you can do is take the good with the band and seize on it all with GUSTO. With that in mind, welcome to Put the Needle on It, the blog equivalent of your really embarrassing Auntie.
No Shade
What in fresh hell happened to the ‘Sisters?! Actually, once you get over the fact that ‘Shady Love’ is closer to LMFAO than Elton John’s toupee it’s easy enough to embrace. Pulsating and close enough to generic, without being over the Jessie J scale of shit – radio should lap this up. They’ve been quietly recording a follow up to their already iconic dance opus Night Work in seedy Berlin. Boy George and Kylie (!) have voiced their approval of the results so far on Twitter, so needless to say we’re all in for a big treat.
Bye bye, Boy Banned
Sad news for fans of Eurocreme’s NON-PORN export. After enough line-up changes to confuse even the Sugababes but with a few decent songs hidden behind some incredibly dodgy videos, the lads have decided to call it a day after member Ethan was offered a solo deal. So farewell Boy Banned, if any of you end up doing any actual porn – you know where we are.
OH my god
Nadia Oh’s new song is fucking amazing. And is called ‘Fqn Amazing’ So you won’t be calling Advertising Standards on everyone’s favourite indie Ke$ha today. Just the Grammar Police.
Back (vengeance pending)
As well has being a year where we have returns by the likes of everyone from Madonna, Ladyhawke, Placebo and Estelle, 2012’s pop soundscape looks set to be even more phwoarsome by confirmation by Alphabeat and Dragonette that they too are unleashing themselves on unsuspecting ears. The latter have even given us a tiny tease of their first single ‘Let It Go’ which sounds like they’ve not strayed far from collaborator Martin Solveig. So long as Madonna doesn’t swoop down like a musclier version of Gollum and nick any songs like she did with ‘Turn Up the Radio’, the song he wrote with Sunday Girl, all will be well.
Don’t Panic!
Blondie’s first album in eight years, Panic of Girls, released last year was surprisingly good – proof that whatever Debbie Harry’s doing (or not doing) these days she should keep at it. And like any other musician in this day and age she’s not immune to leaks. ‘Restless’, a track from the studio sessions that never made the final cut has surfaced. Gawd knows how long it’ll be until we get another offering so have an aural shufty.
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