Lyric Stash

CD: Das Pop (RainbowNetwork.com)
Summary ?Nothing in music has the same power as pop?, says Das Pop frontman Bent Van Looy. He?s talking about Michael Jackson, Daft Punk, Hüsker Dü, Neneh Cherry, Fleetwood Mac and anything with a chorus so amazing that you want to hear it 30 times in a row and then 30 times more.

Question time: Hannah Pool talks to Miquita Oliver about growing up at the Groucho club, becoming a television ... (Guardian Unlimited)
You started presenting at 16. Do you wish you'd had more traditional teen years? When I turned 21, I really wanted to go to uni, and then I thought about it and realised all I wanted was the experience. All the stuff you do in uni, I did in London, which is hang out and party with friends - but instead of getting up and going to lessons, I got up and went to work. On your new 4Music ...

Youssou N'Dour - (Nonesuch Records/Warner) (Hour.ca)
The Grammy-winning African superstar, Senegal's king of mbalax, returns with the 11-track album Rokku mi rokka ("Give and Take") that'll sell gangbusters back home but may leave Western world music fans a little cold.