The Kylie/Dannii Duet is released on the 20th of October-its Dontstopthepops pop news!

Hi all! Hope your well! So busy at the moment with yet another house move. Anyway! Today in the post I got a very cute little something and...the Kylie & Dannii duet will be coming out on the 20th of October.

I am not liking Katy Perry whatsoever. Or Lady GaGa. Lady Gag(a) sounds so samish to me. She needed to involve more producers on her album. Don't get me wrong-I do like it but it didn't press all the buttons that it had the potential to.

Another slight disappointment is the new Girls Aloud song. Its up there in 2008's pop moments but I expect more from Girls Aloud. I think the album, however, will be brilliant. Perhaps the new song will be more of a grower.

Staying positive, is the new track by Erik Hassle (his myspace is here). Yes he's Swedish but his music is brilliant. I highly recommend him. He's entered the Swedish 60 this week. Perhaps we shall see a lot more from him. Who knows. I'm rambling. I do like his track Hurtful.

Turning to sunny Spain, the band Andermay are releasing new music now and some English versions too. The track Uh Oh Oh Oh is a perfect slice of Europop and a great return to form for Andermay. Check out the amazing remixes on their myspace. Every act should have a remix of the "Fallen Angel" kind in their Itunes package.

Okay, dance music tends to be about utopia and euphoria. But the new Axwell & Bob Sinclar track is nothing but uplifting. Loaded with joy, this song, What A Wonderful World, makes me pluck out my Ibiza sunflower t-shirt and book a flight to Goa. Unfortunately video looks like a Hair pastiche crossed with a suncream commercial. But hey, its all about peace. (Look/Listen here).

Its really cool to see Popjustice like the efforts of Master Shortie. DSTP featured the boy in March 2008. If its gonna take off for the bloke - I'll be most happy cos he truly deserves it. I don't usually go for rap and that kinda stuff but his lyrics are brilliant and his melodies are always loaded with pop. I gotta feeling his star is gonna shoot bright. Boy needs to reload Bringin' it Back! Its brilliant.

Another DSTP favourite is hitting the big time. Pandering & the Golddiggers announced today that their supporting Alphabeat for their UK leg of their European tour. I will now go ahead and book my tickets! Yay!

Anastacia just did a really nice interview in The Guardian today (the G2 section). She came across rather genuine. Proper west end girl that she has now become! The album, Heavy Rotation, is aimed towards an American audience. One wonders how this will go down with her very loyal yet European fanbase?

I can't stop listening to the soundtrack to the Kylie X2008 show. Its production, direction and vocals are brilliant. At times, one is left thinking that the tour could merge into a Cd. The quality of the interpretation of certain songs is rather tasty. I did not like Heart Beat Rock before it was performed live. Each song is given a new lease of life. Some needed it, some didn't. Either way the musicians involved can be very proud of themselves. Including Ms.Minogue herself. I love the bit when she declares "shall we take to the opera" and hits that high note at the end of Your Disco Needs You. And absolutely nails it. Amazing!

Went to see Madonna. There has been so much negativity about the London date and while I wont dispute it all here a lot of it is true. Why add to the negativity? Madonna herself was amazing. She is an icon and proved it all on stage that night. I've never seen her live before and I am glad I can say that I have. One note: she should lose the bad attitude. She was dripping in it. It seemed like she wasn't enjoying herself at all. Perhaps she doesn't anymore. Its certainly the impression I got. Come to think of it I can't remember if I saw her smile once...

The Leona new track is good. I like it and damn it! I hope you can forgive me (or mai-hay as she pronounces it!). Yes, it sounds like nearly everything else Akon has produced but its so catchy. So catchy that you can sing the swing-backs from Gwens The Sweet Escape and the two tracks merge into one.

Simon Curtis is hitting the big time! Paul of the MyFizzyPop/Zapping must be proud. Ever since I read about Simon on his two sites I was hooked to the development of this particular popstar. And although its not quite launched, the galaxies are aligned for this boy and its rather exciting to witness....

Armand Deluxe has gone all Britney on his new track Demented (listen here). I seriously want this guy to do more remixing. The boy is criminally ignored! People go and sign him up! Everything on his Myspace player is so good. If I was a popstar I'd defiantely want him to be producing my album. Why? He makes interesting electronic sounds, he likes Eurovision and is great to look at.

POPBLOG NEWS+

Tis that time once again!

I've been so busy lately but I'll try and keep this place going on through the summer months. Its going to be quite "abuzz" here in the coming days. Not only is there a continuation of "CatchyWeek" but DSTP will feature a very cute interview with the superstar that is Robyn!

I tried not to ask questions that the girl has been asked before and did my best to make myself sound as geeky as ever but it worked out! She called me "babe" and we talked about Kylie and Robyn's next album! Stay very very very tuned!

This blog will also feature two very catchy acts and tracks that hail from Swedish shores. Both of which are going to be so hot it hurts! We are talking "phenomenal"....

I've been listening to a lost musical that my boyfriend magically transfered to Cd. The show featured my (lesbian) mum and was recorded on a tape that had withered away under the bed. The musical was simply put on by a girls-school in Finchley in North London and rivals some of the West End greats. Its over 25 years old and despite being written by one of Elvis Presley's key song-writers its digital-cyber existence is a bit of a non-starter. Its brilliant to hear sounds that were recorded in studio yet only recorded on five cassettes that don't exist bar mine. Its also quite odd to imagine that no one in the world has heard the songs for over twenty years while at the same time quite wonderful to think that the musical has been saved through the magic of digital archiving. Yes, the sound on the cassette made the digital form quite dodgy but I am so glad the music on the tape remains and will be enjoyed without further degradation. The musical was about schoolgirls defrauding companies on the London Stock Exchange and featured killer lines like "Am I not the main event?/would you vote me president?/can't you see i am really talking out of my bu/bumdididuBUM!". Considering it was a school musical, the quality of the songs and the vocals of the mere school teenagers is/are absolutely stunning...I will feature something soon.

GirlBand News

As expected The German nation secured another no.1 for girlband Monrose! Yes, the Danish hitmaster Remee has secured another smash hit single. The song is pretty much an international hit single with good chart positions in Austria (no.1), Finland, Switzerland and is racing up the European singles chart. Is this gonna be another case of the Euro no.1 not featured in the UK charts? Most probably.

Clea News: A number of pop songs have been recorded and the team are waiting on the delivery of some exciting stuff recorded by the duo before finally relaunching. Aimee is now sporting a killer bob!

Raen have their own TV network! Well, sort of! The Australian girlgroup have set up a Youtube feature that includes behind the scenes escapades of the up and coming girlband. The first episode features running around New York City, waiting in lines and after being disappointed when they don't win the "Broadway lottery" they go and gobble some brilliant Thai cuisine. They sing Gina G's Ooh Ahh...need I say more!

It just gets bad to worse with No Angels! They've picked the absolutely awful song Amaze Me as their follow-up to their flop single Maybe that charted somewhere around nowhere. Amaze Me is a cross between You Raise Me Up and Maybe mark II. When their album contains hit singles it saddens me that they are continuing to release really bad slow-tempo rock ballads. It worked with Goodbye To Yesterday but that charted well because it was the lead single. It would have never done as well as a third or fourth single. Girls, sort it out!

The "New Girls Aloud Single!!!!11111!!!!!!!!!!" fever took hold over most of the internet this week. Popjustice loves it while others feel its just left-over bits from other Girls Aloud albums. I am not still not sure about it. I've got a feeling Monrose, NKD, Shine4 and Lucky Twice have upped the standard for girlbands and that addictive Girls Aloud sound of 2001 was great back then but now other groups have eclipsed the fab-5. (see a performance of the new Girls Aloud song on the blog The International House Of Pussy which is linked below).

BlogNews

Mike of Poptrash writes a very fascinating article on Olivia Newton-John. CheesyPopMusic died. As did PopMusicWorld. XO had some great Annie Lennox news. The amazing pop/rare/mp3 pop blog The International House of Pussy is a must. YouDon'tKnowPop explores the world of the pop b-side! Acerben and his Popunlimited features Vanessa Amorosi. PopPostergirl will most probably feature some very interesting pop music this week. Lets all remember the cheapness of Vanessa's first video for Absolutely Everybody. Poplicious features the wonderfulness that is Kate Ryan!

Although Paul of the Zapping has taken his blog on its summer holidays, the 16 year old Conor has entered the popblogworld with his brilliant site UltimateMusicWorld. His last act was the wonderful new Scouse girlband The Songbirds. I've got their debut album and its rather similar to Dolly Parton's BlueGrass creations. Bands on his blog include DSTP stars Caracola, BeFour, NKD and DSTP friends MissMatch so its probable we have similar tastes in music!-yay! There are also acts you might have never heard before such as the ace South African act Jamali. Conor welcome to planet pop!

*Next week-Robyn interview and more catchy pop music*