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Lady Gaga Will Bow Down For The Queen

gaga1Maybe it’s only fitting that Lady Gaga, whose stage name is derived from a Queen song, will now be performing for the Queen—i.e., the real one, Elizabeth II. MORE »


It’s Time (For Me) To Say Goodbye

Hi everyone. Just wanted to let you know that today is my last day as editor of Idolator. The site will continue on, and I will continue to write about music, but we’ve decided to part ways. Despite my nominal status as a “writer,” I am straight-up terrible at goodbyes. So I just have a list of people to thank before I exit stage left. MORE »


A Moment Of Gratitude (With An Assist From Big Star)


As you might have noticed, this is a bittersweet week around here; because of budget cuts, we’ve had to say goodbye to pretty much all the Idolator contributing writers, from columnists to daily bloggers. The site is going to go on as a solo project of sorts, although the news cycle might run at a slightly slower pace. I just wanted to take a moment on this crappy day to thank everyone who’s contributed to the site during my tenure, from the people who helped me sift through the news cycle every day to the columnists, each of whom expanded the focus of the site. MORE »


CMJ Day Two: I Have To Admit It’s Getting Better

If Tuesday night was the epitome of all that is irritating and mediocre about CMJ, last night was somewhat redemptive, though I still think the organizers should just gather the best acts and put them in one place. But hey, the evening was so pleasant, in fact, that I don’t even have any bingo squares to mark off! MORE »

@bcapirigi: It's weird that I don't care more because I'm even in a band that sorta sounds like them. No hate here or anything, just a sort of meh reaction.

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Nick Diamonds Figures Out The Secret Meaning Of Vampire Weekend’s Name

We sent Idolator videographer Alex Goldberg to the steaming hot Coney Island boardwalk for Siren Fest on Saturday, and while he was there he chatted up a few of the artists present, including Nick Diamonds from Islands. MORE »

Isn't it a little rich for the Islands guy to bag on VW for plundering music from other cultures? "Return to the Sea" does so in a less integrated, more superficial manner.

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Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes Has <em>Rainbows</em> In His Eyes

And is that eyeliner or is he just sleepy? Idolator roving videographer/ragged tiger Alex Goldberg recently discovered the Duran Duran keyboardist chilling at the bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel being English, and what better time to corner a New Wave legend and ask him his opinions on the future of… MORE »

Nick Rhodes is the single coolest human on earth. FACT.

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“A Real Mosh Pit Is When You’re At A Spank Rock Show And He Throws His American Apparel Sunglasses In The Crowd”

We’ve been following the exploits of the moshpitting, Jonas Brothers-hating YouTube sensation ADiehardFOBFan all week, but only Alex Goldberg–who likes to go by the name XxstrokesmegafanxX from time to time–was outraged enough by her profane, grouchy tirades to craft his own point-by-point… MORE »

Christ on a cracker. I met this dude at Terminal 5 before the Justice gig. He was interviewing Midnight Juggernauts. He was awesome to talk to and had those killer shades on. Hope that guy remembers me and my Fred Perry shirt. Keep it going, Alex. Hope to see you at future gigs all across NYC.

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Is This The End For “Ironic Hipster Karaoke Rock”?


Well, it took him less than a week, but Idolator videographer Alex Goldberg has found a band that irritates him more than the frontman of French dance-rock band Neimo. Here, with supporting video evidence, he relates witnessing the “death of ironic hipster karaoke rock,” the plague of bands featuring one or more people on stage “singing”/miming/dancing like tools while backed by iPod or laptop. MORE »

The worst thing is that instead of Williamsburg dying, the rest of the world is turning into Williamsburg.

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“I Might Be In Love With A Guy Who Bites Julian Casblancas”: One Videographer’s Confession


Last weekend, Idolator videographer Alex Goldberg caught French synth-punk band Neimo for the second time. The first time, he was so irritated by shaggy frontdude Bruno Dallesandro’s onstage mimicry of rock’s great frontmen that he intended to use his digital skills to poke fun at him for all the Internet to see. But the second time, he felt a stirring inside of himself that he couldn’t quite explain. Well, he tries to explain it to us (with supporting video evidence) after the jump. MORE »

It's those cheekbones.

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