DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

Crooked Teeth Atlantic

This Seattle band have become huge from being featured on teen TV series The OC - and they didn't even have to spend a month locked in a house with Pete Burns. This cute, snaggly tune is from their current album, Plans, and should be a hit with braces-wearing adolescents.

PINK

Stupid Girls SonyBMG

The scariest girl in pop is back, and she's gunning for Jessica and all the other MTV airheads. This is a call-out to all the "real" girls, who don't want to take their clothes off to get a hit. In the video, Pink plays a nearly-naked bimbo - but it's ok, she's only acting.

CRAIG DAVID

Warner Bros

Craig David back in the Top 10? Unbelievable! But he's proven that if you hang on long enough, it all comes back around. Craig's surfin' the new r'n'b wave along with Mario and that fella from Blue. Bet Avid Merrion is laughing on the other side of his neck brace.

THE CHALETS

Theme from Chalets Setanta

In which the boys invite the girls back to their love shack, but instead of hot lava all they get is the cold shoulder. And you thought all boy-girl bands were hotbeds of sex. Fleetwood Mac would be ashamed.

NIGHTMARE OF YOU

The Days Go by Oh So Slow

Full Time Hobby

Here's a 1980s indie wet dream, in which Morrissey and Edwyn Collins dance through the Bluebells on Greenham Common. Come to think of it, maybe it is a nightmare. Still, a nice, jolly reminder of those lazy, hazy student days.

THE CHAKRAS

Slip Disc Records

Judging from all the surfin’ pop bands coming out of Ireland these days, you’d think we were bathed in 365-day sunshine. Here’s a reminder that the sun doesn’t always shine, but the tune is still so bright and breezy, you’ll have to wear shades.