Lady Gaga crashes Oprah - watch the video now!

We're not sure how this one slipped by us, but Lady Gaga performed on Oprah's show a couple days ago and it was very good.  Not quite 'bloody suicide hanging from wires' good, but not 'sitting in a bathtub on X-Factor' boring either.  All in all, a pretty average Gaga performance - keeping in mind that the Gaga scale starts at 8/10 and just keeps going up.  Let's call it a 14/10 then. 

Let's all listen to the new Diana Vickers track 'Once'

Diana Vickers did not win the X Factor.  She is, apparently, about to win the 'best X-Factor alum album' contest. 

Exhibit A: 


Out April 19

Barbie goes Gaga (pics)

Ok so everyone knows we love Gaga.  Furthermore, everyone knows we love watching what Gaga wears.  Judging from these pictures, so does photographer Weikang Lu.  He recreated Lady Gaga's most iconic looks and slapped them on the Barbie doll (which has a striking natural resemblance to Lady G, don't you think??).  Is it just us or, when viewed on a doll, do some of her outfits actually start to make...sense?

"Amazing."

Boyband JLS use up their 'One Shot' in new video - watch now

Here is a video by chart-topping British boyband JLS.  It has all the things that one has come to expect from a video by a chart-topping British boyband.  And because of that it will be number 1 for 3 months. :(

Kylie ahead of schedule on new album - TBR in 2010

Miss Minogue apparently hasn't slowed down since her all-conquering US tour, as NME reports she recently surprised EMI execs with a number of new tracks ready for her new album.  While on her US 'For You, For Me' tour she performed one new song from the set, 'Better Than Today,' and it is what we in the business call 'quite good.'  Here is Kylie and a very very fit dancer doing dodgy American accents and dancing around to the new track:

M.I.A. is no longer MIA - watch the video for brand new ‘There’s Space For Ol’ Dat I See’

M.I.A. is gearing up for her big return this summer, and giving us a pretty nice taste of what's to come.  New track, 'There's Space For Ol' Dat I See' is essentially 'M.I.A. Sings the Songs of Tricky' and is accordingly brilliant.

The video, however, is pretty much just a screensaver but not one of the cool new ones, and in sum it ends up as "NYU Student Union in association with the Soho Art Installation Project Present: 'M.I.A. Sings The Songs of Tricky to Windows 97 (c) Starry Night."   You can almost smell the hipster swarm.

Hurts show you their 'Blood, Tears and Gold' - watch the video now

Music elitists:  You have a new band to promote and go on and on about until people start listening to you, they become popular, and you are forced to hate them for "selling out."

The duo Hurts have been making some waves recently, and 'the blogs' continue to buzz about them even though they're not exactly the most mainstream sounding band vying for listeners' attention at the moment.  This video for non-single-but-sort-of-single 'Blood, Tears and Gold,' however, proves that given a chance (we're looking at you, Radio 2) the guys just might break through.  By 'break through,' of course, we mean score a number 33 also-ran and top the Belgian iTunes Electro-Alternative Synth EP chart        for  a couple hours on a Sunday, but it is what it is.


Anyhow, readers, if you're looking for an early week pick-me-up, go watch Gabriella Cilmi's new video again.  But if you're in the market for a moody and surprisingly touching synth ballad, we've got just the clip for you.


"Intriguing."

Sade's 'Soldier of Love' video is pretty (video premiere)

Look!  Horses!  Ropes!  Lightning!  And a very good song to boot...



The album is out Feb 9