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Justus Boyz “Uh-Oh” – In a lot of ways, all the context you really need for this song is supplied by the cover of the Justus Boyz album. This is camp, but it’s very earnest camp. This is synthpop so light and fey that it makes Erasure seem like a bunch of street thugs. This may end up being your “guilty pleasure,” but I am unashamed., and neither are the Justus Boyz. It takes some real courage and conviction to make music like this when virtually everyone is conditioned to think of this kind of pop as being painfully uncool, and your target demo doesn’t even know who you are because you don’t have Girls Aloud or Justin Timberlake’s promotional budget. (Click here to buy it from Amazon. Click here to read an interview with the Justus Boyz on Arjan Writes.)

X-Wife “Rockin’ Rio” – After months of waiting, X-Wife is finally making its live American debut in NYC this weekend, playing shows at Rothko on Friday and Sin-E on Sunday. It should be very interesting to see how they pull off their live show, given that they get a pretty huge playing-to-the-cheap-seats sound on record without the benefit of a live drummer. Feeding The Machine is easily one of the best, most slept-on rock records of the year, and hopefully these NYC shows will attract enough attention to at least get a domestic release for the album. (Click here to buy it from the official X-Wife site.)