Pop still rocks in Stroud by Adam Horovitz Superjuice, Popgang and Disco Rockers, Trinity Rooms, Stroud. Saturday July 10th, 2004 THEY say that pop music's dead, right? That pop will not only eat itself, but has already done so, leaving behind only bland TV-meal music for mass, blind consumption. How then do you explain the throng of gyrating teens and twenty-somethings at the Trinity Rooms last week, all of them slave to the music of Superjuice? The night started well with London band the Disco Rockers, who contravened all the usual cliches of opening bands by being hypnotic and fabulous - like Siouxsie and the Banshees crossed with Goldfrapp. Popgang, who followed, keep on getting better and better. Not really a band to dance to, they demand repeated listens. Each tune hangs on in the conciousness, like jerky versions of a dream, long after their set is over. And so to Superjuice, who have been honing their sound to an alarming sharpness of late. Thanks to the recent aquisition of a real, live rhythm section, they have become a band to be reckoned with at last and with songs like Cry and Dali's Bar, they turn the Trinity Rooms into a sea of moshing, excitable youth. Superjuice are an intriguing mix of lyrical romanticism and music more muscled than a beach full of crustaceans. If tonight is anything to go by, reports of pop's death have been greatly exaggerated, in Stroud if nowhere else. www.thisisstroud.com