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The Video Music Awards: They're Coming! Get Ready! [Putting The Pseudo In Pseudo-event]
 

Published 32 hours ago by Maura Johnston at Idolator

We have about 52ish hours until Britney Spears trades on her recent notoriety to open the 25th-anniversary installment of MTV's Video Music Awards, and like last year, you are all invited to watch with Idolator as we break down the goings-on—and, maybe, break down—in real time. So ...

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Kanye West Could Save The Music Business' Day, Month, And/Or Year [The Release Date Polka]
 

Published 33 hours ago by Dan Gibson at Idolator

While Universal Music Group won't have U2 around to drive year-end album sales , Kanye West might take an extended break from blogging about Kate Moss/producing Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 to record his fourth album. According to his management, the currently untitled long-player should be ready to ...

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Your Chance To Provide The Content Around Here [Tell Me Something Good]
 

Published 33 hours ago by Dan Gibson at Idolator

I don't mean to be totally evil, but I am hoping that the horror of the above Joss Stone/John Legend rendition of the Chaka Khan and Rufus classic that categorizes this post will motivate you to share what you've been listening to these days. The more localized and less likely to have ...

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Dept. Of You Don't Say [Demographics]
 

Published 34 hours ago by Maura Johnston at Idolator

"Fans of indie music, for instance, were found to have low self-esteem and little motivation, but described themselves as creative." [ Independent ]

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Downtown Takes The Express Train Away From Warner Music Group [The Biz]
 

Published 34 hours ago by Dan Gibson at Idolator

Downtown Records, home of Justice, Santogold, Kid Sister, and many other bands seemingly designed for the blog era's express-consumption cycle, is moving its distribution from the largely Warner Music Group-owned ADA (with occasional upstreams over to Atlantic) to a deal with the Fonatana ...

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"Blender"'s Purr Seems A Bit Muted These Days [Rock-critically Correct]
 

Published 34 hours ago by Anono-Critic at Idolator

Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone , Blender , Vibe , and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others ! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of ...

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Strummin' In The Girls' Room: Jason Mraz's Folksy Ditty Climbs The Charts [100 And Single]
 

Published 35 hours ago by Chris Molanphy at Idolator

Last fall and winter, chart fans noted the return to the radio of a style that, until recently, was pretty unfashionable on Billboard 's Hot 100 : pure-pop female singer-songwriters. Strummier and sunnier than their Lilith counterparts in the '90s and closer in kinship to California's ...

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Christina Aguilera Shoots Herself Into Space [Intentional Leak Of The Day]
 

Published 35 hours ago by Maura Johnston at Idolator

ARTIST: Christina Aguilera TITLE: "Keeps Gettin' Better" WEB DEBUT: Sept. 5, 2008 ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: When I saw Christina Aguilera at the Video Music Awards pregame yesterday, she mentioned that in contrast to the retro-heavy Back To Basics , her forthcoming material would be more ...

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Weezy Samples Your Song: Sue Or Celebrate? [Adventures In Copyright Control]
 

Published 36 hours ago by Dan Gibson at Idolator

In this week's LA Weekly , former Idolator guest Jeff Weiss looks at the lawsuit surrounding an unauthorized sample on one of Lil Wayne's most popular mixtape tracks, "I Feel Like Dying." Can an artist sue over something that was never really sold? "I Feel Like Dying" was one of the tracks ...

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Usher Remembers The Ladies [And The Feeling's Right]
 

Published 37 hours ago by Kate Richardson at Idolator

R&B; sex object and occasional actor Usher is planning a tour that can only be attended by those of the female persuasion, so he can give his lady fans a more "intimate" concert experience. Because Usher shows are typically overrun by rowdy, distracting macho-man types, you know? Usher is ...

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The Hidden Meanings Of Scott Weiland's Rainwear-Happy Album Title [Anagrams Never Lie]
 

Published 37 hours ago by Maura Johnston at Idolator

Scott Weiland hasn't had all that great of a year, but what better way to turn things around than with a solo album—especially one that allows the names "Sheryl Crow" and "Steve Albini" to appear in the same sentence of a press release? Which is why he's releasing Happy In Galoshes , ...

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Snow Patrol Minus The Residents Of Seattle Grace [Intentional Leak Of The (other) Day]
 

Published 38 hours ago by Dan Gibson at Idolator

ARTIST: Snow Patrol TITLE: "Take Back The City" WEB DEBUT: Sept. 1, 2008 ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: When this song debuted on BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe show Monday, Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody made a bit of a production of stating that the band's new album was a radical departure ...

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Lily Allen Is Mad That No One Got The Joke [On The Blogs]
 

Published 38 hours ago by Maura Johnston at Idolator

The pint-sized singer responds to the flap over her Wednesday-night tiff with Elton John on her blog, saying that it was all just a big joke and even though she may have been drunk, it wasn't like Sir Elton was mad or anything: "I'm not defending my drunkeness because i don't need to, i'm 23 it ...

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Fela In The Footlights? [Musicals!]
 

Published 39 hours ago by Dan Gibson at Idolator

As someone who spent a few years deeply obsessed with Fela's catalog (the vinyl reissues came with trading cards of his wives!), the idea of an off-Broadway musical based on his life threw me for a loop, even with prominent Afrobeat soundalikes Antibalas as the house band. Still, the guy ...

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We Search The Internet For Pampered Divas, Eyeball-Frying MCs, And Metal That Blurs The Race And Gender Divide [Next Little Things]
 

Published 39 hours ago by Chuck Eddy at Idolator

Each week, dozens of songs and albums from up-and-coming (or just plain unknown) bands debut on the world's music charts. Some of these bands will never be heard from again; some may become the next little thing. That's why we have Chuck Eddy exploring the world beyond the Billboard 200, ...

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The Jacksons Almost Reunite On Stage Yet Again [Sibling Rivalry: It's Torture]
 

Published 40 hours ago by Maura Johnston at Idolator

Last night's BMI Urban Awards in Los Angeles honored the Jacksons for "lifetime achievement," and featured Lloyd singing "I'll Be There," which sadly has not shown up on YouTube yet. Of the six Jacksons who performed with the singing group, Michael and Jermaine were missing, a fractured ...

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Puns used in headines about the first guitar ... [Unchecked Boomer Nostalgia, Cont.]
Puns used in headines about the first guitar ... [Unchecked Boomer Nostalgia, Cont.]

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Puns used in headines about the first guitar Jimi Hendrix torched onstage going for some $493,000 at an auction in London yesterday: "fire sale," "flaming bargain," "purple blaze." Somehow, no one thought to turn their story into a commentary on ...

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Taylor Swift May Want To Rethink Her Hierarchy Of Musical Role Models [Videodrone]
 

Published 40 hours ago by Maura Johnston at Idolator

I don't know if I'm the only one who's alarmed by fresh-faced teenage country singer Taylor Swift's latest semi-incongruous cover , in which she apparently tries to muddy up her image by covering Amy Winehouse's ode-to-inebriation "Rehab." Sure, one could take comfort in her choice to make ...

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Heart's Nancy Wilson: "I Feel Completely Fucked Over" By The Republicans Incessantly Playing "Barracuda" [Political Song For Someone Who Isn't A Member Of Heart To Sing]
 

Published 47 hours ago by Maura Johnston at Idolator

So Ann and Nancy Wilson haven't really been too pleased that the folks in charge of the music at the Republican National Convention have decided to turn their 1977 song (and current plastic-guitar staple) "Barracuda" into a rallying cry for GOP vice-presidential nominee/unavoidable topic of ...

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Velvet Revolver To Drag Out Lead Singer Search For As Long As It Will Keep Them In The Press [Ongoing Investigations]
 

Published 2 days ago by Maura Johnston at Idolator

But you probably figured that. [ Hollywood Insider ]

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