When the Oohlas’ Best Stop Pop came out in September, the group was immediately met with comparisons to Belly and Veruca Salt, two love-’em-or-leave-’em acts that may have turned off potential fans. MORE »
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Second Spin: No Wonder Rhymefest Sounds So Blue
Remember Rhymefest? He’s the Grammy-winning Kanye pal (and co-writer of “Jesus Walks”) whose Blue Collar was tipped as one of rap’s biggest releases of 2006–until it came out, and everyone had moved on to discussing the Clipse leak. MORE »
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Second Spin: Why You Need To Celebrate “Celebration”
Celebration’s self-titled debut album came out on 4AD last year, but it’s still in heavy rotation around the Idolator flophouse; we love the Baltimore-based trio’s hypnotic, organ-driven songs, and the tension added to them by David Bergander’s razor-wire drumming. MORE »
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Second Spin: Why You Need To Get The Rosebuds Planted In Your Head
This week’s release of a new track from the North Carolina power-couple the Rosebuds got us thinking: Why, exactly, is this band not 10 times bigger? MORE »
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Second Spin: Why You Need To Celebrate Oneida’s “New Year”
Idolator wasn’t around in July, when Brooklyn’s Oneida released the excellent Happy New Year–a shame, since it’s one of our favorite records of the year, and its “really catchy psychedelic art-rock album of the moment” mantle seems to have been overtaken by TV On The Radio. MORE »
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Second Spin: Why “Fundamental” Deserves Another Chance
First, the Scissor Sisters, now the Pet Shop Boys; you don’t have to tell us that the site’s reading a little, well, British today. MORE »
