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Radio Popbitch

There is streaming radio on popbitch today, click on the "radio popbitch" link... The site proper at www.radiopopbitch.com is still admin only right now.

A new version of popex?

I thought someone had launched a new version of popex when I heard about this new product:No I didn't. However, I did wonder if something was being stirred up when I saw search results for popex travels over there in the sidebar -->Guessing it's peop...

One Big Darkness

Darkness tour all sold out, tickets going for over a hundred quid a go on Ebay, what can you do..? Well you can take not of this mailout from the band:This Sunday, 14 September, sees The Darkness hit Cardiff in Wales for Radio One's onebigweekend liv...

Virus

Everything went mad here yesterday with fallout from this virus, IT manager Andy was stuck here all night. Feeling a bit safe as I'm not using Windows, but have to check out this LINUX variant, hopefully everything's cool though. Have got millions of...

Darkness December dates

SMART, new Darkness tour:[quote]The Darkness @ [[Plymouth Pavilion, Plymouth, Devon (Wed 3 Dec)The Darkness @ Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth, Dorset (Thu 4 Dec)The Darkness @ Brixton Academy, Brixton, London (Fri 5 Dec)The Darkness @ C...

Goo Goo Dolls

The Goo Goo Dolls took home two honors at the 20th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards on Tuesday, May 20th. The group was recognized by the organization for its song "Here Is Gone" and for the theme song it provided for the television show Good Morning Mi...

Got a fanzine?

No I don't want to buy your hastily photocopied pamphlet, but an CHUM of mine wants your help...If you have a fanzine, and want to be sent STUFF, and invited to gigs, please send an email to emma@impressivepr.com...She works with several big name pop...

PopBitch A-Z Results

Here are the 26 artists and tracks of last night's beast-themed A-Z... The Animals - Don't Let Me Be MisunderstoodBloodhound Gang - The Bad TouchThe Cult - Peace DogBlue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The ReaperThe Stone Roses - Elephant StoneThe Farm - Gr...

Hang The DJ...

I'm DJing the popbitch A-Z thing at Yo Below, on the corner of Clerkenwell and Farringdon roads, playing mostly rubbish, but with a theme of "animals" (Adam and the Ants, Beastie Boys, Godspeed You Black Emperor Penguin, etc)... See www.popbitch.com/...

Seen the new Muse video?

I'm watching it now, it's available on Real Audio here: Muse - Plug In Baby.There's a HUGE interview with them, on Channelfly here...UPDATE: sorry links only worked on popex....

Elton to replace Dido

Elton John is courting controversy right now by apparently planning to duet with Eminem at the Grammys...In the midst of all the campaigns and protests, and in a scene reminiscent of Elton and Axl's duet at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert - Elton...

Two votes in it, innit - Imagine wins

Here's the top ten "best number one singles ever", the latest in a ceaseless series of charts - just the kind of thing we love here at PopEx...[*] Imagine - John Lennon[*] Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen[*] Hey Jude - The Beatles[*] Dancing Queen - Abba[*]...

Hero of the Year #10

Suede - Hey, sending loads of cool stuff on the day I was preparing the list worked! Cheers to Interceptor management / PR / whatever they are...These results will hopefully be posted on the site every 3 hours, starting on Boxing Day, and taking us t...

Rah, NME didn't let me down

They've featured us in their "essential websites" guide, part of the AltaVista sponsored "internet guide" pull out in this week's issue, very nice... Also in the "fun and games" section are:www.popjustice.comwww.popbitch.comwww.chasndave.co.ukbless '...

Brixton Agony

So Madonna is to play Brixton Academy on the 28th of November, but there are only available to competition winners and guests... I'm expecting the call from Madge any minute now offering me the tickets - I'm wearing my "Who's That Girl" 1986 tour t-s...

Camdemonium

Camdemonium was last night, and it was in Camden, and bands played, and there was some kind of wrist band action involved.I'm pretty sure Wilt were quite ace, also Bellatrix were good, but Sing Sing less so.Top indie schmindie DJing action from value...

Tonight's gig action

Obviously there is Daphne and Celeste at Camden Palace, it's the 14th birthday of the Feet First club night.If you're well connected you can go to the super secret Millenium Dome shows tonight, featuring Reef and Toploader and three unnamed others (P...

How about a Coldplay competition?

Right, I was sent a press release today, advertising the forthcoming tour, and the new single (as exclusively revealed here to be "Trouble"), but I thought the tour was off because one of them has Glandular Fever... so the competition question is "I...

What people are looking for...

We have a new number one! Thanks to a feature on popbitch in yesterday's Guardian, popbitch is the new most searched for word among people who came to popEx from finding it on a search engine yesterday... was that clear? Anyway, here's the top ten te...

Badly Drawn Boy RIP

Suede. Gomez. M People. What they got in common? That's it, one fantastically received album, and then gradually disappearing from our lives since then... and GUESS WHAT! They all won the Mercury PriceOK, stretching the point a bit, apparently Damon ...

Lesbians more popular than Metallica, shocker

In a report obtained from free-web-hosting.com, listing the top 100 terms people are searching for on the modern interweb, popEx has discovered the SHOCKING FACTS that the word "Lesbians" is more likely to be searched for than "Metallica" - but only ...

Eros Ramazzotti in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Eros Ramazzotti Active: '80s, '90s, 2000s Major Styles: Latin Pop, Italian Pop Instrument: Producer, Guitar, Arranger Representative Albums: "Greatest Hits," "Donde Hay Musica," "Stile Libero" Representative Songs: "Adesso...

The Cure

Our annual trip out to a young person's pop music concert. Well, The Cure anyway.
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