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Hey gang.
So I'm in the process right now, as we speak, this very minute, of transferring to Wordpress...
I like it. It is neater and slightly more challenging so therefore actually giving my brain a bit of a workout.
SO. popthatshit, the wordpress era is going to go live very soon... It has all of the posts that I have written on here, so I will be completely deleting this blog.
Thanks for reading, and I'll post the new address soon!
xxx

Leave!

Two new ones from the magical lady of Pop, Little Boots:

Little Boots ft. GoldieLocks - Meddle (AC Slater and DJ Skeet Skeet Rmx)

VV Brown ft. Little Boots - Leave!

Thanks to BigStereo for the links.

D.I.M

D.I.M, currently touring Australia, on the Boys Noize record label, has some very good remixes indeed. They posted a couple of them online a few days ago:

Hot Chip - Hold On (D.I.M Remix)

The Presets - My People (D.I.M Remix)

 

Tweet Tweet

Anyone reading anymore? Sorry I've been completely useless. Ideas to get a new website may not be going to plan.. but they will happen.

So, got Twitter? Add me if you have... http://twitter.com/pollyoo

It's actually pretty 'neat', I'm adding people who's updates are actually relative to me, apart from Stephen Fry maybe. BUT, Little Boots, Annie Mac, PopJustice amongst others, are regularly updating with their news.

The Great Escape Festival which is a yearly May event in Brighton are (is?) also one of my friends, I'm just debating whether I'm going to get a ticket this year. Last year, I blagged press passes which was actually brilliant. This year, I'm not sure if I'll be able to. So far, these wonderful acts have been announced:

Metronomy * Kissy Sell Out * Future of the Left * Ben Kweller * Johnny Foreigner * Esser * Passion Pit * Dananananaykroyd * The Big Pink * The Soft Pack* The Chapman Family * Micachu and the Shapes * Let's Wrestle * Bell X1 * VV Brown * Vivian Girls * The Golden Silvers * Official Secrets Act * The Handsome Family * Your Twenties * An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump * It Hugs Back * Pulled Apart by Horses * Middle Class Rut * To The Bones * KASMs * Televised Crimewave * The Joy Formidable * Cassie and the Cassettes * Tin Can Telephone * A Grave With No Name * Yves Klein Blue * The John Steel Singers *

Not bad eh? Last year, my highlights were seeing Alphabeat at the worst bar in Brighton, 'Horatio's' on the Pier, Laura Marling's last gig with Noah and the Whale, and Operator Please. Tickets are £39.50 at the moment, get yours HERE.

Music Go Music

Designing the new blog isn't exactly going that quickly... You'll have to excuse me. I've been running a pub, more Pat Butcher than Peggy Mitchell, and far less glamorous than you think.

To keep you going whilst I'm away, intrepid fans, a new band for you from LA, Music Go Music. I have slightly fallen in love with their dreamy, Kate Bush sounding vocals and their slightly camp backing tracks.

Light Of Love - Music Go Music

I'm assured that when they drop their album in a couple of months on the Secretly Canadian label, I am to be kept in the loop with some promos and the like. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have been.

(Thanks to Heartache with Hard Work for the mp3)

Hurry up March 23rd

These are the kind of emails that I like:

Norwegian duo Röyksopp, Svein Berge & Torbjørn Brundtland, announce the release of a new album for Spring 2009.



Following their million selling debut ‘Melody A.M’. released in October 2001 and the acclaimed 2005 ‘The Understanding’, Röyksopp will release the new studio album on 23rd March 2009.



As always the Bergen-based band have written, performed, arranged, mixed and produced the new album themselves. The album features vocals from the band as well as guests: Anneli Drecker, Karin Dreijer-Andersson (The Knife), Lykke Li and Robyn.



Titled ‘Junior’, this 11 song album is a remarkable, energetic masterpiece. The first single ‘Happy Up Here’, a joyful romp, will be released on 9th March 2009.



‘Junior’, album track listing:



1. Happy Up Here

2. The Girl And The Robot

3. Vision One

4. This Must Be It

5. Röyksopp Forever

6. Miss It So Much

7. Tricky Tricky

8. You Don't Have A Clue

9. Silver Cruiser

10. True To Life

11. It's What I Want

Please, please, please.

Anyone know where I can get my grubby mitts on the Pet Shop Boys remix of MGMT's Kids?
'Cause it's a bit good.

UPDATE!

A kind gentleman send me the link that I was looking for... From blog We Can Be Honest Here is the remix

MGMT - Kids (PSB synthpop mix)

Sincerely, Jane

Janelle Monae, a cross between Prince and Shirley Bassey.
Actually amazing.
And here is her Myspace for your listening delights.

Sincerely Jane - Janelle Monae

Yelle

I love how Yelle makes every single song ever remixed sound 'cool'.

You can listen to it here and download it from Thursday on iTunes... if you so wish.
Katy Perry - Hot and Cold