My head is spinnin' but my heart is in the right place/ Sometimes it has to have itself a little MySpace

The XChange

Good trashy novelty country-rap on "Urban Cowgirl," fun for a larf or two but no match for Bomshel. Or Cowboy Troy for that matter.



Butt Trumpet

Snotty punk band with nice Hank-style rag-tag girl group providing much needed XX support. Sing about tampons. (I laughed.)



Kalan Porter

Appeared with Skye at the Junos last year. Not worth further discussion.



Brock Storm

Ooh, heavily vocodered post-boyband femboy-pop from Florida!!!! I didn't realize they still made this model, but I'm glad they do. Worked with Ashley Angel (one of the few remaining traces of the era at this point), musta been "Turn Back Time," his acousti-schlub track with wannabe power-chorus. "Don't Fall for Me" (the vocodered one) highly recommended to Jessica P.


Nancy Drew OST

Pretty good OST, brings the power-teenpop revival (c. 2001-03 w/ Josie and the Pussycats) without the former incarnation's producers, plus Liz Phair sounding...kind of bored. Features Persephone's Bees' excellent "Nice Day," which really shoulda been first, and I'm kinda surprised to see J-Kwon on here. Good Joanna tune, Donnas wasted on what isn't even the best "Kids in America" cover of the year. (That'd be Jonas Bros. "Kids of the Future," which still isn't that good.)



Shevyn the Singer, Rapper, Dancer, and Songwriter

Woulda fit in on the Nancy Drew OST! I was NOT expecting this to be any good, but it is (a few borderline ticks on her page, as they say). Great post-grunge power-pop with disaffected vocal affectation and playful jaded-sounding rap verses on "Wild Child." Some great WTF electrogum touches, esp. "I'm Your Pusher," seems to BOSH a bit, if I understand what that really is. Which I don't think I do.

BEST OF MYSPACE UPDATE: Just a reminder that great French-Canadian teen new-wavers Standing Waltz are still alive and well, album should be forthcoming sometime in 2007. They have one EP available here.

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Keavy and Edele
Former B*Witched members, needs more jig. Pretty blatant but OK Kylie "Fever" rip with "Diet Coke," which should be a much better song, what with the close-to-home subject matter. Diet soda needs MORE POP SONGS devoted to it. A bit disappointing, but did inspire me to purchase the 2002 Kylie Fever tour DVD just now.