Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singles saturated the Top 40 -- or what passes for hit-oriented radio in this topsy-turvy musical climate -- while proving that accessibility doesn't necessarily preclude creativity.
Admittedly, here at the Press we receive all kinds of stupid shit, especially from publicists. But seldom have we gotten a press release with less social merit and higher scuzz factor than this one from WMG (Warner Music Group), entitled "Screw The NCAA's...Welcome To the DIRTY TOURNEY!"
I know record companies are in the toilet, so I guess it's a natural progression that their publicity departments go there too. Some of the copy from this release seems to beg the question: if you
Photos by Meredith BakerThe misting area was almost as popular as the beer kiosks Sunday.
In spite of the killer heat, Sunday's Buzzfest at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion delivered restitution for the 2008 edition that had been canceled due to Hurricane Ike damage. The beer was flowing, the bikinis were out, the beach ball was crowd-surfing and the bands were rocking.Aranda's "Punishment" was an early highlight.Fans of all ages - teens who came for Anberlin and Framing Hanley, Baby Boomers
www.myspace.com/houstonsbestrockband
LOM's significant other got a MySpace friend request from local cover band Cold Shot yesterday. Now I have about as much use for cover bands as I do a dull pocket knife, but everyone has to make a living, I guess, and we aren't all qualified to be pole dancers at the Colorado Club.
Cold Shot's MySpace URL tag is quite simple: houstonsbestrockband.
Yeah, that's what it says. No, really. Cold Shot's PR poop is even lamer (and the spellings are theirs):
"Houston
