Love Machine

This Must Be Pop features new tracks from Erik Hassle (brilliant) and Six-D (genius but bound to get very annoying very quickly, in Love Machine’s opinion), as well as continuing to round up Sweden’s Melodifestivalen.

The Pop Sucker approves of Lykke Li’s new album, and takes an off-message diversion into folky singer-songwriterness with James Vincent McMorrow before rounding up some hip’n’happening electropop, including one of our favourite tracks of the moment by Burns and Fred Falke ft. Seb.

Scandipop post the new track by Annie with Designer Drugs, and spend an impressive number of words concluding that Margaret Berger’s new track is very good indeed. In typical Love Machine fashion, we saw Margaret twice in Oslo last week (more on that trip soon) and still manage to get pipped to the single by every other blog in the world. 

Chartrigger have posted the new videos from Sound of Arrows and Cut Copy, noted the wave of profanity spreading across the Billboard chart (that’s some American thing, apparently), and appear to have some kind of nervous breakdown while writing a brilliant piece on the Britney video.

So there you go.

Selena Gomez turned 18 the other day, and got TWO brilliant cakes. She can have her cake and eat the other. Or something.

But Selena isn’t the first popstar to pose with some excellent baked goods:

Oh Miley, your new raunchy image will only end in tiers.

If (tiramis)U Seek Amy

Cali-petitsfours-nia Girls

All of which reminds us, it’s Love Machine’s first birthday in September. If anyone could arrange for Irwin Hoosier to jump out of a cake that’d be great, ta.