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I'd be shirking my metablogging duties if I didn't mention that the music issue of the Oxford American looks at the blog-band hype cycle through the prism of Annuals (remember them?), who were tearing up the MP3 blog world a little more than a year ago. Bill Wasik's piece traces the origins of the band's online popularity, and the way that the phrase "get ready to get sick of this band" could be used to describe any number of hype-torrent campaigns that have made their way around the Internet during the music-blog era: More »

Welcome to another edition of Track Marks, in which your Idolators perform an autopsy on the latest whisper-down-the-lane Internet-sensation of the moment. Today's entry follows a group so blog-beloved, even our cat's heard of them (our cat's really into Livejournal these days). More »