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A Project X Family Reunion

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he sits down with his family for the fourth time to analyze last week's Billboard Top 10:

I've been traveling all May, starting with a week in New York, with stops in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, and Chicago before spending a week in the Twin Cities. (Portland, Ore., is next, before heading home to Seattle.) I've been seeing a lot of my family while I'm here—and of course I had to play them the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 of May 24.

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3:00 PM on Thu May 22 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
859 views, 14 comments

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Project X Turns On The AC

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Idolator Critics' Poll editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. In this installment, he flips the dial to the nation's Adult Contemporary stations and finds a lot of familiar faces. More »

4:30 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
626 views, 6 comments

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Project X Tries To Reason With Fuse TV

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Idolator Critics' Poll editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. In this installment, he tries to sort the factual errors from the intentional comedy from the plan ol' batshit as he subjects himself to the Fuse show 10 Great Reasons, where a zoologist, a cheereader, a TV chef, and Carnie Wilson all have plenty to say about girl/boy bands. Even if little of it is coherent. More »

10:45 AM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
604 views, 6 comments

Latest by mdmoran: You're right about my not being an historian. Although I am currently pursuing my Ph.D in history, I have not obtained it yet, and am quite a few classes away from doing so. While doing the interview, I requested to more »

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Project X Spins Top 35 Rock Lists Compiled By "Spin"

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Idolator Critics' Poll editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. In this installment, he looks at an issue of Spin from 1990 that attempted to tell rock history through Top 35 lists:

If you saw my bulging shelves full of CDs, books, magazines, photocopies, and printouts, you might call me a collector. But I've never been entirely comfortable with the designation: even when I was 13 and deep into comic books, I wanted to read them more than I wanted to preserve them. Keeping them around was a fringe benefit. The same has been true with music magazines, but it wasn't always, which is what has lately driven me to eBay to find old copies of Spin. One of my favorite issues was cover-dated August 1990: Jim Morrison against a bubblegum-pink background on the cover. The headline: "35 Years of Rock'n'Roll." A subhead: "Top 35 Lists of Everything From Guitar Gods to Dead Rock Star Charts."

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11:00 AM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
1,132 views, 9 comments

it's now, it's new, it's over to you

Idolator Asks: Who Watches Bonus DVDs Attached To Albums, Anyway?

So Blu-Ray has won out over HD-DVD in the future-of-how-we-rent-movies-for-home-viewing technology sweepstakes. Since I have no horse in this race whatsoever—I'm still behind watching all the movies I DV-R'ed from TCM's month of Oscar-winners—I mention it only as the pretext to an Idolator poll. Not the critical kind—the kind where you, the reader, answers a broad, sweeping question that's been nagging me for the past few, well, years: Who, precisely, watches the bonus DVDs so many current pop albums come with? More »

2:00 PM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
1,024 views, 30 comments

Latest by FionaScrapple: The "St. Anger" DVD was/is pretty cool. more »

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Eddie Is a Zune Man

Iron Maiden plans to release its greatest-hits-of-the-'80s compilation, out in mid-May, as free 320kbps downloads. The catch: the files will be in WMA, not MP3, and they'll evaporate from your HD after you've played them three times. (There will also be a no-DRM option for actual purchase.) What thrift! How forward-thinking! What a you-get-what-you-pay-for lesson-learning that we the consumers will flock toward, especially the many, many of us who've (cough) chosen WMA as our primary file format. Way to court those plentiful Zune dollars, guys. [Metal Sucks via PTW]

12:00 PM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
119 views, 2 comments

Latest by Jan74: The evaporation thing is a stupid plan. Get it, convert it to .mp3, and magical evaporation will stop, no? I doubt the erasing will happen once it is reencoded. more »

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Project X Goes Indie (Sort Of)

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Idolator Critics' Poll editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he looks at the Britain's ever-shifting definition of "indie," with a BBC chart that includes everything from soul to Radiohead effluvia to synth-pop that first hit three decades ago to, yes, even some indie rock: More »

10:00 AM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
783 views, 7 comments

Latest by rogerniner: "sigh" Looks like I killed another thread. I'll stay in my corner now, I promise. more »

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Project X Gets Festive With The Legacy Of John Peel

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Idolator Critics' Poll editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he looks at the legacy of British broadcaster John Peel's annual Festive 50 countdown, and how Peel's fans are continuing the tradition, for better or worse: More »

10:00 AM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
448 views, 8 comments

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Project X Goes To England

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Idolator Critics' Poll editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he looks at the Top 10 UK Singles for the second week of February, explores cultural differences related to Europop synths, and comes to grips with the Nickelback song he didn't entirely hate (at first): More »

10:30 AM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
3,208 views, 6 comments

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Project X Takes Two For The Books

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Idolator Critics' Poll editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he looks at two books aimed at list fanatics, one intermittently entertaining but flawed and one recommended unreservedly to all music geeks:
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10:00 AM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
550 views, 11 comments

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Project X Takes On A Culture Bully

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin' Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he examines the health of the bootleg mash-up thanks to a list compiling the year's best in bastard pop: More »

10:00 AM on Mon Dec 31 2007
By mmatos
648 views, Comment

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Project X Presents Sense and Sensibility, Starring Kim Gordon and "Fact" Magazine

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin' Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he tries on a pair of very different sensibilities thanks to 2007 Top 10 lists from Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and the U.K.'s Fact magazine: More »

1:30 PM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By mmatos
634 views, 10 comments

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Second Spinning Some Rock And Roll Classics, Spaced-Out Disco, and Trad African Beats

In the current climate of ruthless blog scrutiny, good records can easily disappear with little or no press and supposedly major albums are forgotten within weeks of release. With that in mind, we bring you Second Spin, where we'll take a look at records that have either slipped between the hype cracks or re-evaluate albums after the press cycle has left them for dead. In this installment, Michaelangelo Matos gets into trouble with a classic rock and roll songwriting team, surveys the current "cosmic disco" trend, and is introduced to an eight-member Kenyan rhythm machine. More »

9:30 AM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By mmatos
555 views, 3 comments

Latest by semiserious: Milky Disco is amazing. I wish more American outlets were paying some attention to this scene. Some of the stuff coming out of labels like DC Recordings is pretty solid. more »

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Project X Gets A Little Bit Country (And Brings The Family Along)

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin' Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he takes a break from Thanksgiving to sit down with his family and listen to the Billboard Hot Country Songs Top 10, capturing their cantankerous opinions about George Strait, Baz Luhrmann, and Cookie Crisp for posterity: More »

1:30 PM on Mon Nov 26 2007
By mmatos
756 views, 9 comments

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Project X Goes Looking For Some Replacements

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin' Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, a list from the 1995 Spin Alternative Record Guide provides a proverbial springboard to explain how a new history of the Replacements will leave you unsatisfied: More »

1:30 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By mmatos
2,205 views, 6 comments

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Project X Looks For The Good Ol' Days

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin' Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he watches 10 films from the cusp of the 1970s that offer a variety of takes on the era's nostalgia for the rock and roll of the '50s and '60s: More »

1:30 PM on Mon Oct 29 2007
By mmatos
505 views, Comment

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Disco Angels, Brokebacks, And Skoozbots (Oh My)

In the current climate of ruthless blog scrutiny, good records can easily disappear with little or no press and supposedly major albums are forgotten within weeks of release. With that in mind, we bring youSecond Spin, where we'll take a look at records that have either slipped between the hype cracks or re-evaluate albums after the press cycle has left them for dead. In the first installment, Michaelangelo Matos chills in the superclub's VIP lounge, vacations in a soul motel, and gurgles and boings to a minimal techno soundtrack. More »

11:30 AM on Mon Oct 22 2007
By mmatos
527 views, Comment

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Project X Is Just About To Lose Its Mind

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin' Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he counts down the best and worst charts of the 1960s: More »

1:15 PM on Wed Oct 17 2007
By mmatos
654 views, 14 comments