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Anniversaries I'm not much for ceremony, but I would be remiss if I didn't point out that today was my one-year anniversary of editing Idolator, and I'd be further remiss if I didn't take a second to thank all of you reading out there for coming by, reading, commenting, tipping, and generally keeping me on my toes. Click the photo for a YouTube clip of the song that has defined most of my editorship, for better or for worse.

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Letter From The Editor Hi everyone! If you Google Blog Search the term "idolator" as often as I do, you've probably heard that Gawker Media has sold the site you're currently reading to the social-networking site/Pete Wentz blog host Buzznet, and that I'll remain in the driver's seat through the change in ownership. There's not much else to say about it right now, really—but in the interest of jacking up pageviews, I've posted Nick Denton's memo announcing the changes after the jump. (Rereading it now reminds me that we need an update to the long-out-of-date-anyway conflict of interest laundry list pretty soon. But you guys will keep me in check about that sort of stuff, right?)

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announcements

New Commenting Features Allow You To Feel Like Somebody's Watching You At All Times


Sure, Jess and I may try to direct conversational traffic on Idolator, but we would probably be pretty bored without the contributions of our commenters, who tip us, fact-check us, enrage us, and make us laugh (even intentionally!). Today, all of Gawker Media's blogs are rolling out some new commenter-related features that will bring all of us closer together. Details on how to follow your favorite Idolator readers' contributions to the fray after the jump. More »

2:30 PM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By mjohnston
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Ready The Snark: Two Drunks Mumble Incoherently

What happens when two borderline alcoholics get a video camera shoved in their faces and a plucky documentarian starts grilling them about which bands get a thumbs-up and which get a thumbs-down? They act like morons. More »

3:45 PM on Wed Sep 26 2007
By jharv
1,001 views, 23 comments

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A Gentle Reminder: Idolator's First Anniversary Blowout Is Tonight

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. I have prepared the oh-so-blog-esque iPod-playlist-in-lieu-of-a-DJ (in conjunction with Maura) so expect plenty of freestyle, girly late '90s/early '00s R&B, new jack swing, and other things that are fun to dance/drink to. (Speaking of which: your Idolators plan on getting ripped, so as Maura mentioned before, be prompt if you want to say hi for the first time while we'll still be speaking in full, non-slurred sentences.) If you're in the greater NYC area, you really should stop by.

12:00 PM on Mon Sep 24 2007
By jharv
192 views, 4 comments

Latest by MissParker: Happy Birthday! Since I'm about 1500 miles south, I'll tip a Stella Artois from the comfort of my home in honor of your achievement. Enjoy! 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 »

8:53 AM on Fri Sep 14 2007
By mjohnston
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Latest by The Mozfather: Sounds like fun! Wanna pay for my airfare? more »

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Idolator's Leak Policy

Idolator's aim has always been to bring you great music—or maybe not-so-great music that still deserved to be heard—and we've always tried to do so in a way that keeps everyone (readers, artists, labels) happy. This has not been an easy task: There remains a lot of gray area when it comes to MP3s, and like so many other music blogs, we've had to deal with numerous major-label cease-and-desist letters since our inception (and we've complied with all of them). The back-and-forth has become a frustrating process, and one that's drained plenty of the site's resources. To paraphrase the great James Newell Osterberg, Jr.: It's no fun. More »

9:00 AM on Sat Sep 1 2007
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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 »

8:38 AM on Mon Jul 2 2007
By mjohnston
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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. So, in the spirit of fairness, we present our first Pick Of The Idol poll, where you tell us which of our music writeups was so bad, it had to appear on a hastily produced music blog. More »

12:13 PM on Fri Jan 12 2007
By mjohnston
46 views, 1 comment

jackin' pop

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. Enjoy, and be sure to use the comments section to let us know what artist every critic out there inexplicably forgot to laud. More »

2:10 PM on Fri Jan 5 2007
By mjohnston
677 views, 44 comments