August round-up

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Here be a selection of posts you may have missed last month!

Your favourite British bands still making music today
Has punk made a lasting impression?
Should pop be 'cleverer'?
That MIA album dissected in full
Are the Pussycat Dolls setting back feminism by 100 years?
K-punk declares 'war'
Sterling pop science from Tom on 00's genres (contains graphs!)
Were you listening to Agadoo in 1984?
The first installment of Ultramix '95

Plenty of other top-notch discussion too: Orb v Orbital, skillextric's Hits! reviews, multi-talented popstars, the 'unique' Radio 1 compilation striking fear into the hearts of the pop nation, Robyn at number one and the return of Britney...

The Annual Lex 20 Pence Indie Prize - NOMINATIONS

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Right kids! Time to nominate the artist or band who you feel deserves the accolade (won last year by The Automatic, sort of) for services to Indie over the last year.

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The final shortlist of acts to will be polled at around 5pm today so GET NOMINATING!

(Of course, 'indie' is completely open to interpretation...)

The Lex 20p Indie Prize SHORTLIST

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Apologies if your nomination didn't make it to the Top Ten - I tried to stick to UK artists wherever possible. Voting will close at the end of the week.

EDIT: The voting criteria have been left deliberately ambiguous. Vote as you see fit: best, worst or 'most indie'? It's up to you.

Do You Seek Opportunities for (Self-)Promotion?

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I do! Which is why I'm linking to the first part of my series on (mostly) American teenpop this week over at Stylus. I compiled 5 mixes to correspond with the essays, and will be posting them in a SEKRIT PLACE (shhhhhhh) some time on Thursday or so.

If you agree, disagree, or otherwise care about teenpop, please share yer thoughts here or at my blog, where you might find s'more commentary if I can find some time for it, or over at the Rolling Teenpop thread, which has seen some activity with the back-to-back leaks/releases of Britney, Ashlee, Veronicas, and now DAHV and SKYE.

(If you don't know who Dahv is, stay tuned and you will at least know the glory of "Pass the Shirley Temple.")