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Big in the U.K.: Scouting For Girls “This Ain’t a Love Song”

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 […]

By Paul Lorentz|May 15th, 2010|New Music, News, Pop Rock International, Videos|31 Comments

Lost in “Mumbo Jumbo”: The Triumphant (?) Return of Air Supply

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 […]

By Paul Lorentz|May 12th, 2010|Charts, New Music, News|352 Comments

Big In Europe: Stromae’s “Alors On Danse”

When I was a kid, most of the music I loved best was coming from Europe, and so I loved it when Casey Kasem would occasionally mention on his weekly American Top 40 broadcasts which songs were topping the charts in places like Belgium and Norway (and, yes, of course, the U.K.). Most of the time, this would be in the context of introducing a song that was a current hit in the […]

By Paul Lorentz|May 2nd, 2010|Charts, New Music, Pop Rock International, Videos|459 Comments

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