Those of you who visit the site directly may have noticed a reader poll in the right column for Best Album of 2009. But I know a lot of folks add blogs to their respective RSS readers, and I don’t think it shows up in the site feed. This poll will be open for everyone [...]

If you’re like me, you may have been wondering what was going on with The Golden Filter. They released the excellent ‘Solid Gold’ way back in March, gave us great remixes of Polly Scattergood and Empire of the Sun, then went on silent running for 3 months. Was it all just a big tease? Did [...]

Nancy Sinatra’s magnificence cannot be disputed. So don’t even try, fella. Sure, she sang a slightly creepy romantic duet with her dad, but at least he was still alive at the time (I’m looking at you, Natalie Cole). But who am I kidding? I’ve sung ‘Somethin’ Stupid’ when no one was looking.
Miss Go Go [...]

If I didn’t know better, I’d swear La Roux’s Elly Jackson was created in a laboratory by splicing genes from Tilda Swinton and Annie Lennox. In fact, I’m not entirely sure I do know better. If someone can pass along their contact information, I’ll see about having them make me an Elly of my very [...]