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SPANISH POP SEASON! MARTA SANCHEZ!
With the summer sun setting on the summer horizon, DSTP is taking this opportunity to celebrate the legends of Latin pop. Many will naturally know of Jennifer Lopez, Julio and Enrique, but this...
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SPANISH POP SEASON - EDURNE!
Edurne hails from Madrid and came to the attention of the Spanish public as a solo star when she took part in the fourth series of the Spanish version of Pop Idol/Fame Academy. Although Operación...
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SPANISH POP SEASON - ALASKA! - SPANISH POP QUEEN AND LEGEND!
Trying to cover every release by Alaska is near impossible. As such forgive these general brush strokes. Suffice to say every Friday and Saturday night I hear this icon of Spanish pop music blast out...
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THE CLIFF MASTERSON INTERVIEW - PART ONE
Your underpinning grounding was started at the Royal Academy of Music with Nick Ingman....I never actually planned to go the Academy. During my time at school I was writing and performing songs as a...
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CLIFF MASTERSON INTERVIEW PART TWO
Cliff & Harriet together in the studio.I wanna talk about your songwriting - you've recently been in the studio with the new singer Harriet? (Harriets Soundcloud & Twitter)Harriet is super...
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THE HARRIET INTERVIEW
Harriet! Welcome to DSTP! It is such a pleasure to have you hear on our “pop-sofa!”Its well-overdue! Hope you're sitting comfortably?I am indeed! And yes, well overdue :-)We’re heading into 2015 –2014...
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2015 in Pop! (New acts & releases that I am pretty excited about)
ACT: Kylie Minogue & Giorgio MoroderWHY: This is pretty much self-explanatory. Kylie. And Moroder. Says it all actually. The album includes a whole gang of exciting collaborations but for me I am...
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DANNII IS BACK! SO PRESS PLAY (UPDATED!)
Dannii announced today in an interview with Cameron Adams that she is not only returning to music but also the stage! The glorious Sydney Mardi Gra festivities this summer. So so so very soon! As she's...
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HARRIET RETURNS & CHATS (AND GOSSIPS) WITH DSTP (About Fly, the album & the...
Just after the release of new single Fly, I met the singer Harriet in an lovely old arts cafe tucked behind Angel tube station in Islington, London. She wanted to discuss her new single, a follow-up...
View ArticleAwa - Obvious
Sweden's only ever X Factor winner Awa is back! And, with a supercool track. Co-written by Marlene & the Trinity team, Obvious is her follow up to Not Ready To Say Goodbye. With the ever...
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KASTRUP - THIEVES
Speechless. My heart raced a million beats when first hearing Thieves. Rendered Speechless. Discovering Kastrup was like an electric bolt hitting water - absolutely terrifying but beautiful....
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LCMDF - Fooled
Wow. Its been two years since LCMDF gave us a lick tip of their attitude - in the form of their brilliant and iconic #haters which of course was the theme for that years Helsinki Pride. They're back...
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KASTRUP INTERVIEW
So, Kastrup - why name yourself after the Danish airport?For us, the residents of Malmö, Kastrup is much more than just an airport. It is the train station that you’re passing by, drunk and hungry on...
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AURORA Q&A
Aurora - Love your new video. How did you get into writing music and singing in the first place?Thank you!!! I never got into singing really, but I got into writing music when I was around 6. Didn't...
View ArticleKASTRUP - Come and Get Me
Sadly not a tribute to Rachel Stevens second album but don't allow that to hold you back. My favourite Malmo duo are back after their immense debut Thieves with the mighty Come & Get Me. And, its a...
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SOPHIA SOMAJO - Klein Blue - BOOM! The song of 2015/2016!
And, boom in the flickering embers of the year Sophia drops the song of 2015. And, maybe 2016. What the hell Sophia? Talk about pulling the rug from under our feet. Klein Blue is deliciously electric...
View ArticleThe Best of 2015
Yes - I am doing in this in 2016. And, in the middle of second month of 2016 too. I get it. Its late. Really late. Really really really late. But better to have done it than not. And, this madame has...
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SAY - MONSTERS - FIRST REALLY BIG SONG OF 2016! [this is not a drill]
OMFG! Say has arrived and launched with the stunning Monsters. As 2016 stands so far - this is the bestest. It is monstrously good. I TOOT TOOT THIS SONG! I fucking love it. Yes, I used an expletive...
View ArticleSMITH & THELL - STATUTE [Didrick Remix]
In the blaze and glory that was a very successful Eurovision in Stockholm, comes this beautiful anthem by Swedish duo Smith & Thell which has had me in a happy rapture since first hearing it....
View ArticlePAULA LOBOS - EYES ON YOU
In the week of the Polar Prize of Sweden comes this bouncy dance choon by Paula Lobos direct from Stockholm. Sounding like a cross between Kylie, Zara Larsson and MNEK Eyes On You is a bombastic summer...
View ArticleSHURA - WHATS IT GONNA BE?
So much has been said about Manchester based Shura I was half thinking to just let things be and let the excellent song (and confluent video) do the speaking. BUT. This is such a cute tight pop song...
View ArticlePAOLA - LOVENIGHT
As a long fan of her previous band, I rejoice at the new single Paola. Also, because of the fact it's produced by Steve Anderson and toplined by the fabtastic Bianca Claxton. Love Night is pure...
View ArticleDSTP'S TOP POP SONGS OF 2016!
So here we go! [There were so many good songs this year that just didn't quite make the final short-list but are pretty amazing pop and worthy mentioning: Side By Side (Alvaro Estrella), Reminds Me...
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FRIDA SUNDEMO - WE ARE DREAMERS - DSTP'S TOP POP SONG OF 2016- RUNNER UP!
We Are Dreamers recoils in the same brand of melancholia of Robyn's With Every Heartbeat& Dancing On My Own, ABBA's The Winner Takes It All and Roxette's It Must Have Been Love. There are even...
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CILIA - HARDCORE HEARTBREAK - DSTP's SONG OF 2016
Hardcore Heartbreak is Dontstopthepop's song of 2016. I was still completely enamoured by her single, Silhouettes In Slow Motion. It is pretty rare to have acts not only release banger after banger but...
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