1 NO ROCK’N’ROLL FUN
Despite shades of indie-ness — it is named after a Sleater-Kinney song — Simon B’s blog does a fantastic job in sweeping the web and finding consistently interesting or insane pop news. www.xrrf.blogspot.com

2 POPJUSTICE
The site that worships Rachel Stevens and Alison Goldfrapp, this is also the kind of place that declares Rusty Lee advertising Missy Elliott’s new record, The Cookbook, to be the greatest thing in human history. Profane, passionate and much needed. www.popjustice.com

3 FREAKY TRIGGER: NEW YORK LONDON PARIS MUNICH
The more cerebral approach to pop is seen here in many reviews and links, all spiced with pithy descriptions, such as Madonna being the “Gyles Brandreth of pop”. www.freakytrigger.co.uk/nylpm

4 POPTEXT
“Because life is definitely too short to listen to Coldplay”, the Oxford student and aspiring author Abby McDonald’s blog is beautifully written and irreverent, and has “the odd joyfully jaunty MP3”. www.poptext.blogspot.com

5 SPIZZAZZ
This site takes great delight in featuring pictures of Mariah Carey sitting next to homeless men in wheelchairs. Lines such as “I heard that (Rachel Stevens) barely sleeps because she’s worried that she’s not taken seriously, ha ha ha” predominate. www.spizzazzz.com