The single of the millennium – sorry, Scissor Sisters, you had a good innings – is a fantastic achievement from a man at the very peak of his game. I’ve already mentioned this year’s Sound Of… more →
Jukebox Junior | Music | Blog | A History Of Popjukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: The single of the millennium – sorry, Scissor Sisters, you had a good innings – is a fantastic … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: It actually breaks my heart not to put this at No.1, but when you’re dealing with the single of t … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: The Swedish popstress graced the charts before, back in the ‘90s, with ‘Show Me Love’. No, no … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: Met with gentle swaying from Junior, James Murphy’s song of profound loss is warm in its stark si … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: Math rock. Pretentious Americans showing off their virtuoso chops with challenging chords, duelling … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: Mark Ronson’s lounge-pop interpretations on Version are a queasy hornfest, not bearing many repea … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: All this “featuring” lark really messes up your mp3 tags, don’t you think? On to more pressin … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: These Geordie lads and their acclaimed debut A Certain Trigger passed under my radar when they were … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: Is there an Arcade Fire backlash yet? Now that Q have put Neon Bible at No.1 in their albums of the … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: Woooo-hoooo. Yeeee-hoooo. I thought it seemed throwaway at first, even annoying – certainly an … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: No.11 might be a bit high for this, but I also wanted to pay tribute to a sparkling album, Kala. It … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: Wimbledon’s premier rap-skiffle rodent had a big year, what with that Mercury nomination (and he … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: Asobi Seksu are reminiscent of an ultra-melodic My Bloody Valentine, all breathy shoegazing and dri … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: Junior jangled her keys to this one. I say “her keys”: she’d nabbed Nanny’s spare set from … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: Even the irredeemably naff can be saved by the right muse – and po-faced bundle of pop aggression … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: Kylie has been at the very frontier of pop ever since the triumphant ‘Spinning Around’ comeback … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: Not for the first time this week, Junior retrieved the Spice Girls’ ‘Wannabe’ from the CD she … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: Jukebox Junior’s first ever Single of the Year, in 2005, was Kanye West’s ‘Gold Digger’. Th … more →
jukeboxjunior wrote 11 months ago: WE BEGIN with the witchy, ethereal, Bjorkish, any other tired adjectives that might have been appli … more →