I don’t do much on Sundays. So says my better half. Actually, I do a lot of laundry on Sundays, which involves a lot of waiting. Which involves a little bit of reading, a little bit of napping, a little bit of bumming around on the internet, and a lot of just sitting around listening to music. Needless to say, Sunday afternoon is, like, the greatest thing ever as far as […]
Last month, the band Scouting for Girls scored a number one hit in their native Great Britain with a song called “This Ain’t a Love Song”, the lead single from their just-released (just not released here) sophomore album Everybody Wants To Be On TV. Though the London-based trio has an apparent knack for amiable alterna-pop, drawing easy comparisons to Keane for their pretty pianos-guitars-and-strings arrangments while demonstrating an understated Brit wit and a refreshingly […]
In what may be an indication that a critical mass of the “adult” radio listening audience now has no first-hand memory of the band’s creamy cheeseball ballad 80s heyday, Billboard.com today reported that “Dance With Me”, the latest single by the Australian duo Air Supply, has reached #28 on the Adult Contemporary chart. This is their first appearance on that chart since the summer of ’93, and their highest placing on the chart […]