Idolator

This morning I read a lengthy, waaahmbulance-chasing post by Greg Katz, a blogger in Los Angeles who was set to go see electropop revivalist Calvin Harris (whose video for the awesome "Acceptable in the '80s" is above), and who was on the guest list for the show. As it turned out, Katz got bumped from the list at the last minute, which peeved him because he'd "blogged and spun [Harris' album I Created] Disco relentlessly" and been "doing what [he] could to repay Calvin and Sneak Attack in blog posts and DJ spins" for the list spot. Lengthy blogorrhea ensued, with Katz going on and on about how he was disappointed, how he thought he'd have been treated better if he wrote for print, etc., etc. Which, you know, fine, losing a guest-list spot at the last minute stinks, but I don't think there's a writer out there—print, online, skywriting, whatever—who it hasn't happened to at least once in their career. More »

Calvin Harris is a 23-year-old electro wunderkind whose involvement with Kylie Minogue's forthcoming album has stretched into the two being linked in the tabloids(if it's true, more power to Kylie; after all, he was a mere five years old when Kylie's take on "The Loco-Motion" was on the charts). His own album, I Created Disco, comes out in the UK next month, and its definite highlight is "Acceptable In The '80s," which sounds tailor-made for our next Jazzercise session: More »