This reworking of British singer Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab,” which pairs the salty chanteuse with Idolator favorites Hot Chip, sweetens the original just a bit, adding a few glitchy touches while stretching Winehouse’s detox-resistant track out to almost twice its original length. More »
Now that Tower Records stores around the world are closing their doors, we’ve dispatched some specially trained consumer-crazed hobgoblins to the discount bins, in search of a good deal. Alas, all we’ve found so far is a lot of so-so crap. But it’s cheap so-so crap! More »
We honestly didn’t think we’d be mentioning good ol’ Glenn at all this week, let alone twice, but this tip just landed in our inbox from a Danzig-tour insider: the Danzig tour truck [was stolen] with all the gear last night. More »
“Announcing my Presidential run on your next mix tape? A perfect idea. I like your style, kid.” Obama, Ludacris Talk About Guiding Kids [AP via NYT] [Photo: Associated… More »
When the space-age glitter rockers Zolar X touched down in the ’70s, they were notorious for keeping one foot in the stars at all times–they’d speak to each other in an allegedly astral dialect, although their songs, like the glammy romp “Rocket Roll,” were in English. More »
If you know where to look, you’ll be able to find Gwen Stefani’s yodel-addled new album The Great Escape, which has gone and done leaked itself onto the information superhighway. More »
With Three Six Mafia and Eminem taking home the gold over the past two years, the Oscars’ Best Song category may finally be out of its Randy Newman-induced daze. More »
While your Idolators do their best to cover every possible genre of music imaginable–hip-hop, indie, even the occasional Christian-rap jam–there’s one form of music that’s always made us shudder with disdain: Emo. “What are these dudes so miserable about?” we’d ask. “And why do their voices always sound like they just had their deviated septum pinched?” But because we’re naive enough to believe that even the most potentially iffy music movement has its merits, we’ve asked Arye Dworken–a writer who blogs for both Jane Magazine and his own Bring Back Sincerity site–to guide us through this weepy minefield. His first report after the click-through:
Jay-Z’s Kingdom Come entered the Billboard 200 in the top spot this week, with the post-retirement opus moving 680,000 copies in the United States. The tally resulted in the Def Jam president’s highest single-sales week ever, and his ninth No. 1 album. More »
Because our back-in-the-day Salt-N-Pepa collection was limited to a few badly dubbed Maxell cassettes, we were taken aback when we walked by a stoop sale and saw a copy of Blacks’ Magic, the cover of which looks like the poster for a Tyler Perry-directed Harry Potter movie. More »
