Blog: RobotPigeon

We need to apologise - to any band we've said we love, or are brilliant, or are our new favouite thing...we don't think you'll ever top Dragonette . In terms of perfectly crafted pop songs you won't find a better outfit. Then you throw in a video like, for 'Let It Go', and you think "well, what's the point in anyone else even bothering?"...

She's just young. So we'll forgive Tulisa Contostavlos (bless you) for the screechy Live Lounge cover of 'Titanium'. But to be honest we were more distracted by her cauliflower ear. Looks like she's been in the ring, right? Anyway, ears aside, her stripped back version of single 'Young' was nice.

Ok, ok, ok. There are lots of Bright Light Bright Light things happening. Let's put them in the calendar. In case your eyesight is poor those things are: April 30th - 'Waiting For The Feeling' remix EP is released. May 3rd - Pigeon's birthday. June 4th - 'Make Me Believe In Hope' album released. June 13th - Live show at Camp (in London). Those remixes are all here: And can be purchased *KERCHING* by clicking the [...]

Where the buggering hell did this one come from? With no warning, BIGkids have a video for their second single 'Superhero' online. This is as effortlessly cool as 'Drum In Your Chest', but feels like it has more of a "look at me I'm a pop song buy me and put me in the charts" style vibe about it. Also, we now know that BIGkids real names are Rosie and Mr Hudson (yes THAT Mr Hudson). So that's exciting. The video features the best fake sick since [...]

We like to think our life is like this. Or even this (with smaller bottoms) The reality is this. Ho hum.

The Wanted and One Direction are both doing so well in America at the moment that they could conceivably abandon the UK forever *a barrage of teenage girls bombard us with death tweets*. Calm down ladies! In fact, it looks like The Wanted are very much paying attention to the UK. So much so that they have enlisted emerging UK talent, and favouritist people of RobotPigeon, Pariis Opera House to remix new single 'Chasing The Sun'. The remix takes the best bits of the song, loops them, and then turns it [...]

As much as we could take. Sorry Will.I.Am , we love you and everything, but we can't take any more of The Voice UK . Sure, the spinning chairs were fun for a bit, but once you draft Paloma Faith in as an 'expert' you know things are up the shitter. We made it through about 15 minutes of 'authenticity' (complete with boxing ring and 'ding ding round one' bells) before giving up. So we promise, no more The Voice from hereon in. Having said that, the re-signing [...]

Friday night, can of beer, cigarette out the window, bloody brilliant new Unicorn Kid . Happy.

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We stumbled across the Cheryl Cole video for new single 'Call My Name' today. Here is a breakdown. A small boy peeps into Cheryl's dressing room. Hold on. This is not Cheryl's dressing room. It's Girls Aloud's. "Piss off small boy. I am [...]

Oh, hello unexpected single from Aiden Grimshaw the man off of X Factor from quite a while ago who we liked at the time but had sort of forgotten about but who teenage girls on Twitter love *breathe*. This is called 'Is This Love'. It's a bit bloody good, and, at the time of writing, has clocked up over 23,000 plays in 9hours. Blimey. We like it when he does the wobbly 'I can't breeeeeathe' line, and then sings high pitched like a girl. Of course we also [...]

This is Swiss Lips . They are playing tonight in London. We spotted the below video for 'U Got The Power' a few months ago, but then we forgot to write about it, and then it seemed a bit old hat. But now they are playing a live show so that is a good excuse to, as they say in the business, 'tie it in'. Think MGMT but a bit more pop. Swiss Lips = great.

The music world is so fluid at the moment that it's hard to know when songs are actually released. Does it even matter? This Drake and Rihanna track has been floating around for bloody ages. It never had pictures before, but now does. And whenever it was/is/may be released it is still BRILLSVILLE USA.

Never mind blind auditions, are The Voice doing blind make overs as well? Yes, these people are all under sixty years old. [...]

Louis La Roche teams up with Ad-Apt and a PVC clad Red Riding Hood in this video for 'Untrue'. We're not sure this is the sort of music they'll play round Grandma's house though.

Remeber when Pete Waterman was on Pop Idol and had shingles? Conspicuous by her absence, right?

"Hello Calvin Harris? This is the Scissor Sisters." "Oh, hello the Scissor Sisters. I remember you from the photo on Twitter we were in with Kylie Minogue." "Yes, that was fun. We were thinking we'd like to write something like 'We Found Love'" "Tell me about it." "Shall we write it then?" "Yes, but I'm not sure I'll ever really top that." "What if we put the word horses in the title?"

This track does not need gimmicks like a man in a thong (we will, however, exploit it to get some hits on our blog). Just check out 1:00 and then 2:38 of Van She 's new single, 'Idea Of Happiness', to see why naked bottoms are unnecessary.

Hold up one bloody minute. What is this brilliance in our inbox? Let's read the accompanying email for clues. "21-year old Stefan Evan Niedermeyer aka SIREN blah, blah, blah,working with producers Ash Workman (Metronomy) and Craig Silvey (Arcade Fire)." Intriguing. So is 'The Surrender' a one-off? *google* No, no it is not: Love this. More please. Finish with lame 'listening out for the Siren' pun.

The new The Wanted single, 'Chasing The Sun', may be lacking the ejaculation metaphors of 'Glad You Came', but what with Jay's penis being plastered all over the internet recently that's probably sensible. Obligatory 'oh, oh, oh' section is present so things will probably be just fine. At the moment we hate this. In about four listens we will love it. Those are the rules of a The Wanted single.