Let us now praise hideous popstars: Keshadollarsign day

Yesterday on the twitters, we got into a bit of a discussion about Ke$ha, the new drug-addled pop starlet that your sister wants to be when everyone's out of the house and she gets into mommy's methamphetamine.

I first became aware of Ke$ha, henceforth referred to by her Biblical name of Keshadollarsign, via posters plastered all over Canal street in Manhattan promoting her album Fuck Me In The Ass With a Chainsaw Big Daddy Animal.

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PARTY POSTPONED

PARTY TIP: DON'T MAKE YOUR BANDS RISK THEIR LIVES TO COME TO PLAY IN AN ARCTIC TUNDRA.

Since there's a SNOWpocalypse in NY, we're postponing the launch show.

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These kids are on fire-BM LINX

Have we mentioned the launch party this weds at Santos yet? No? Oh, shit, we should.

(I mean it was also in the New Yorker, but who the hell reads that?)

One of our bands, the superfierce BM Linx, threw some questions around with us via email. Catch those under the cut...now.

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Apartment Stories: The Bloodsugars

When we named The Bloodsugars as our favorite new band of 2009, it was on two merits: the strong tunes that make up their debut album and their impressively energetic live show.

Those same two merits, plus the fact that they've pretty much earned the status of "band we force anyone with a half-mile radius to listen to" here at soldout, also netted them a prime slot at our soldoutmusic launch part at Santos Party House in NY on Feb 10.

To celebrate the upcoming launch, we recently crammed the guys of The Bloodsugars into soldout Liz's apartment for a soldout Aparment Story session-1 flipcam, 1 song stripped to its bare essentials, no redoes or editing.

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The Next Invasion? By Collin Kelley

Friend of soldout Collin Kelley submitted this article after hearing me rave about my new musical crush Delphic on the twitters. I was turned on to Delphic when soldout writer Ben blathered something about something about a remix of something about something regardless of what he was saying (I don't know, I don't listen to him), I checked out the song in question, "Counterpoint", and had my life changed. Collin Kelley presents bands that may also be life-changing according to the Brits.

The Next Invasion?

By Collin Kelley

 Every few years, America gets a new “British Invasion” – a clutch of artists from the UK who storm the Billboard charts or become overnight sensations on YouTube (and I’m not including Susan Boyle). Over the last few years, Amy Winehouse, Duffy, Mika, Gossip, Adele, La Roux and Florence + The Machine have made inroads into stateside consciousness.

 In December, the BBC announced its Sound of 2010 poll, a yearly list of up-and-coming musicians selected by UK industry experts to be the “next big thing.” This year’s list was decidedly British (last year’s list included American acts Lady Gaga and Kid Cudi), so chances are you’ve never heard of any of them.

 In the long list of 15 acts, three stood out:

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