Using computers, turntables and other electronic gadgets at its disposal, the band's synth-pop landed it a deal with Columbia Records, which released Oracular Spectacular.
Stewart is a multi-millionaire after more than three decades as one of the world's best-known pop singers.
Eli Broad today is an astute buyer of contemporary art and is in love with Roy Lichtenstein's iconic pop-art pieces.
If hanging ten seems a strange choice of metaphor for a band that formed in North Carolina, it doesn't really matter: Superchunk's spiky guitar-pop still flies out of every corner.
Housed as a collection of transmedia installations at collaborative sponsor Bombay Sapphire's festival pop-up House of Imagination (at 177 Varick St.), the program will feature interactive digital-media projects based on participatory narratives.
Coca-Cola ( KO - news - people )'s latest mission is to prepare India's mom-and-pop retailers to take on big-box stores.
They worry China's real-estate bubble could pop, threatening growth in that country, and that the U.S. and Europe are far from resolving their own debt problems.
The release fittingly begins with "Just Impolite, " showcasing Plushgun's penchant for electro-pop and introspective narratives.
It didn't go over big with Ebay's mom-and-pop sellers at first.
Fountains of Wayne's massively hooky power-pop songs have made it a critical darling, landed the group in the Top 40 (for 2003's ubiquitous "Stacy's Mom"), and even spawned one of the most spot-on musical commentaries in recent years: Robbie Fulks' "Fountains of Wayne Hotline" lays the band's formulas bare in hilarious fashion.
But as long as hip-hop's hold on pop culture remains strong, the number of rappers crossing-over into the movies is expected to grow.
The group's crisply enjoyable rock could be the music playing in an endless loop between every intern's ears the clandestine indie-pop melodies that power corporate America's foot soldiers.
On "Roman Reloaded, " the energy never flags -- it's the rare filler-free mega-pop album, an achievement for a record that stretches to 19 songs and 69 minutes.
Meanwhile, over the past decade or so, a concentration of cutting-edge galleries - featuring everything from SoCal's native lowbrow street and graffiti artists to Japanese pop-art imports - has reclaimed an industrial area on Culver's eastern edge, creating an arts district to rival New York's Chelsea neighbourhood.
Tha Carter III's first-week sales, which were easily pop's strongest since Kanye West's Graduation last September, were spurred by a daring marketing strategy that doubled as a cocky musical challenge.
It's not exactly a landscape of mom-and-pop inns, but Liang says there's a parallel with the U.S. of the 1950s before the interstate highway system was finished: The market is fragmented and full of opportunity.
Once you have booked a ticket on the El Al's website, a pop-up message tells you if an upgrade auction is available.
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Sometimes raw and demanding and at other times smooth and suggestive, Lindberg's vocals provides ammunition for the band's feisty, retro-tinged pop songs.
Further productivity boosts include the ability to run S Note -- now called Pop-up Note -- on top of other apps, as a resizable window.
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Oh, and it's also apparently patented pop-ups and widgets, as most anything that displays information "in an unobtrusive manner that occupies the peripheral attention of the user" is getting the same treatment.
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Fuller sued Cowell for copyright infringement, over claims The X Factor copied the format of Fuller's show, Pop Idol - the original forerunner to American Idol - which was screened in the UK from 2001 to 2003.
But Hukku, after establishing his family in the U.S. and growing comfortable with American pop-culture references, has found that the U.S. market is still a challenge and a half.
New Delhi (CNN) -- After a slow start, Apple's iPhone has jumped to India's second largest smartphone supplier by pushing phones to Mom-and-Pop shops in the world's fastest growing smartphone market.
Other observers note that while it's the flashy product roll-outs that get the attention -- pop stars Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga already have made appearances this week -- it's the deal-brokering among tech players behind the scenes that truly matters.
The company's X.commerce platform aims to provide all of the fundamental technologies needed for end-to-end commerce, delivered in a way that's simple enough for the mom-and-pop shops to manage.
The work comes from Warhol's signature 1960s series of pop-culture icons like Marilyn Monroe and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
However, the album's interesting brand of upbeat acid-pop is more than a simple reworking of the original lo-fi acoustic musings.
The Mets have multiple holes in an unproven outfield, and they hope Ankiel's solid defense and left-handed pop will provide an upgrade.
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