Oh No They Didn't! - Don't mime, Cheryl: You're no Aretha, but you .

The miming controversy that attended her performance on The X Factor last Sunday did Cheryl Cole no favours. On a point where the show`s motley crowd of youthful wannabes and older hands are asked to talk their hearts out every week, she was made to see shallow as she apparently lip-synched parts of new single Promise This, a call set to top the charts this weekend.The damage to Cole`s artistic credibility was not only significant.

Spork: An audience with The Growlers

An audience with The Growlers

One minute later The Growlers` http://www.losgrowlers.com/ vocalist Brooks Nielson told me he is "a classic hoarder," he rattled off a number of material he hoards. He spoke too quickly for me hold up, though, so my notes read "old furniture, old machines, piano, surfboards," which is near a 10th of what he said.

Spork: I'd Love to Go You On #! The Tickets – The Tickets

I'd Love to Work You On #20: The Tickets - The Tickets

I came to find the little gem of a book that is The Tickets by way of their Brewery label founder, Walter Clevenger. Clevenger and his lot the Dairy Kings made some fine Bakersfield inspired pop records in the later 1990s, so by association, I figured his taste as a label head would be in a similar style.