Have you read this week's music feature on the Vivian Girls? Everett True asked the band 10 questions... one of them went like this:

3. What would your definition of pop music be?

K: "Structured songs with hooks."

I was forewarned by the usual suspects: the girl bloggers (Alex Loves You and Your Silly Pop Songs), the boys with Orange Juice held high in their hearts (Unpopular). I knew what was coming. I couldn't resist. I didn't want to. The Vivian Girls' "Where Do You Run To" is like Detroit all-girl band Slumber Party's first and third albums, times 100. How you going to resist that?

See the other nine questions and answers here.

Sisters of Mercy, Romance
(El Corazón) Even I have a soft spot for British gothic rock—for its evil passions, the blood, the hunger, the bats that have "fled, fled, fled." Especially for Sisters of Mercy's second album, Floodland (1987), a delicious feast of dark pop. How can one ever get enough of "Lucretia My Reflection," "Dominion/Mother Russia," and "This Corrosion"? How can one ever get enough of the order "Give me the ring!"? The power of those words send me back to a dawn in 1989: I had just left a party in North London, entered a tube station, and found on both platforms hundreds of vampires waiting for a train. The men and women had also just come from a party, a satanic party, and were now returning to their caves in East London. CHARLES MUDEDE

Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, Conrad Ford, Star Anna
(Chop Suey) Her nom de plume might suggest a delicate, gamine gal, but the musical Holly Golightly exudes a tomboyish strength and a delicious diamond-in-the-rough charm. On her new album, Dirt Don't Hurt, she and her musical partner/Brokeoff Lawyer Dave use their wonder-twin powers to deliver a classic country/blues album full of sparse, dark, timeless classics. If Golightly's voice sounds familiar, it should—she dueted with longtime fan Jack White on "It's True That We Love One Another" off the White Stripes' Elephant (as well as with Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner on his second solo album). If you like Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, but wish they were rougher around the edges, you'll love Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs. BARBARA MITCHELL

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