Today's Pop Five: A.J.'s lessons learned from Iron Maiden
The Pop Five is a series of Pop Candy readers' top five lists. Today's contribution comes from -A J- :

Quiet Entertainer's Machismo, Track-by-Track
​ Yeah, Yeasayer's on the Intertubes explaining their album Odd Blood , but here in town local beat-maker Quiet Entertainer is giving a similar (if slightly less self-important-sounding) track-by-track rundown of his new EP, Machismo . Now, he doesn't get into the Iron Maiden reference on the remixed version of "Still Single" -- which features Spoken Nerd and is awesome -- but he does cite both WWE and Paper Route as inspiration for his self-described "entrance song," "I Am ..."...

Lauren Bravo tells us what maketh the rock chick
Lauren Bravo writes: She's one of Fashion's favourite mythical figures, along with the woman who actually has a capsule wardrobe and Mariah Carey's 'stylist'. She reappears in some shape or form every season, manifested in leather jackets, slashed t-shirts and smudgy eyeliner. She's a household name, bandied around in Fashion houses and ladies' loos alike. But she rarely delivers everything she promises (supposedly because she's hanging out backstage with Iron Maiden; really because she's made...