Seeing as our previous Spotify playlists have done down so well we thought we'd make this a new weekly feature. Essentially this is a mixtape-like companion, featuring songs from records we've reviewed, bands in the news, people we've spoken to and stuff being talked about on the boards.»
Bravo, Coldplay: the bed-wetters, so we’re led to believe, have triumphed on two fronts, topping the albums and singles charts this week»
As returns from the wilderness go it’s up there with Jesus and Noel Edmonds – yep, it’s The Futureheads’ back-to-basics anthem-in-waiting 'The Beginning Of The Twist' an exocet up the arse of the charts at 30.»
The apple of our eye»
Girls Aloud have struck a blow at hipster heartlands with their dismissal of “Hoxton Heroes” in their new single.»
It’s gone eerily quiet in the singles chart this week; it is, we fear, the calm before the almighty shit-storm that is the rush for Christmas number one.»
A 40-year anniversary compilation of covers for Radio One will feature a Franz Ferdinand and Girls Aloud collaboration on a David Bowie track.»
Hello! Here’s some news about the latest chart-botherers for you, the chart-bothered.»
Nu-wop, that’s what Kev just told me the kids are calling Sean Kingston’s smash single ‘Beautiful Girls’...»
Cover versions, eh? Seems you can’t move for them at the moment. There's Mark Ronson and Patti Smith, Sugababes and Girls Aloud, that bloke from Little Britain...
Gareth Dobson wonders if we should ban this sick filth, but then remembers that he loves that ska version of 'The Final Countdown'...»
Leading supermarket Tesco is to stop selling CD singles in its stores...»
Where the hell are the PROPER Christmas songs? The ones that make your dad sing along to ‘em in the car while stuck in traffic after last-minute shopping for Aunty Whoever’s favourite moisturising cream; the ones that the kids love today and that they’ll love tomorrow; the ones that hit the airwaves at midday on December 1 every year and don’t fuck off again ‘til Boxing Day...»
Seriously, lads, nil-nil? You’re killing me here…»
Finally, the UK album chart has witnessed a significant shifting of top-ten artists. There are no fewer than FIVE new entries in the top ten, four of which debut in the top five. Hooray!? Let’s wait and see…»
Right now, there’s nobody else in the office. For all you know, I could be writing this week’s rundown of the movers, shakers, tinkers and tailors in the UK albums and singles charts in the nuddy. Or, at least, with my shoes off: they do rub so terribly...»
Girls Aloud - they are not unattractive - reckon Pete Doherty's a bit rubbish. While they're not alone in thinking this, they are sort of famous, which is why The Times reported their slurs...»
Girls Aloud have revealed the tracklisting to their double-disc best-of album...»
Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding has countered press claims that she's quitting the group by posting a message on the band's official website...»
Continuing today's theme of bands not actually splitting, here we've news that Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle, pictured, isn't quitting the poptastic quintet...»
Not-shit poppers Girls Aloud are to give the Brit Awards a miss completely this evening after the five-piece weren't nominated in a single category, despite being all shades of awesome across the usually drab pop charts this year...»
Nizlopi's more-irritating-than-Sharon-Osbourne 'JCB Song' is totally outselling Westlife this week, leading to bookies William Hill slashing the duo's odds of making Christmas number one to 15/8...»
Kimberly Walsh of top pop totty (can we say 'totty' here? Yeah? Okay...) Girls Aloud has claimed that band mate Nicola Roberts is obsessed with her behind...»
Girls Aloud will release not one but two singles before the end of the year, as well as a new album...»
Latest news bites from the pop music world...»
Girls Aloud are planning a spoof-style horror movie along the lines of Scary Movie, and they're writing it themselves!»
Popstress goes down (well, gets community service) for assualt, rather than for a racist attack on a "jiggaboo".»
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