Hi. You may have heard that Idolator is holding its first birthday party tonight at 9 p.m. at the Knitting Factory’s Tap Bar, located at 74 Leonard St. in New York City. It is free to enter, and there will be live music from Brooklyn’s My Teenage Stride and Baltimore’s Monarch. MORE »
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Idolator’s First-Anniversary Party: Live-Blogging Strictly Prohibited
A year ago today, Gawker Media launched Idolator, much to the chagrin of Zune’s marketing team, music bloggers, Village Voice Media mucky-mucks, and a lot of other people, no doubt; since then, I (along with Brian Raftery, Jess Harvell, and a host of amazing contributors and guest bloggers) have been on a 12-month ride of waking up at the crack of dawn, scouring RSS readers, and making jokes at the expense of art directors everywhere. But I’m not here to sentimentalize, baby-boomer-style–instead, I want you to know that we’re having a first-anniversary party on Sept. 24, and you’re invited. Invite (courtesy of our in-house MS Paint auteur) after the jump. MORE »
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A Note From The New Editor: Waking Up At The Crack Of Dawn Because I Love It
Hello, everyone. Maura here. It’s my first day in the editor’s seat, and what better way to introduce my tenure than with the video for Amerie’s summer-single-in-waiting “Gotta Work”–even if I have serious misgivings about all the Pussycat Dolls biting, a.k.a. the obvious attempt to get her record noticed on these shores? (Here’s hoping there’s an alternate “headbanging in front of bucket-drum-players” version of the clip floating around somewhere.) MORE »
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Pick Of The Idol: Can You Spot Our Worst Piece Of Pop-Crit Puffery?
Though we’ve eagerly crapped on some of the web’s worst music writing, we’re acutely aware of our own twisted, tortured prose. MORE »
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The Idolator 2006 Jackin’ Pop Poll: It’s Alive!
We’ve all been waiting, and now it’s here: Idolator’s first Jackin’ Pop Poll, edited by Michaelangelo Matos, is now live. We’ve got the results, a few essays, and a gallery of the poll’s top artists ready for you to click through and debate over. MORE »
