The latest opportunity for the BitTerrorists to get all all high and mighty comes from Norway, where a business school has released a study claiming that people who download music without paying for it are in fact more likely to pay money for legit music than their non-downloading counterparts. The Bi Norwegian School of Management came to this conclusion after studying the music-consumption habits of some 1,900 people around the country. Naturally, this study is being heralded by techie types out there as proof that their open ports will, in fact, save the music industry. But there’s something about all the hubbub that doesn’t sit well with me! I hunkered down in an IM window with Idolator’s resident academic adviser Eric Harvey to figure out why. More »
Equal parts Wonder Showzen, South Park and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, The Sarah Silverman Program, which debuted last night on Comedy Central, takes place entirely within Silverman’s extended adolescence, where poo jokes abound and cough syrup gets you drunk. More »
More than a few eyebrows went up after the NFL announced Prince as the halftime performer for Super Bowl XLI–not just because it’s been merely three years since Janet’s little friend said hi to the TV people, but because most of the billion-plus viewing audience is probably expecting some form of actual royalty to hit the stage, instead of the guy who once sang “People call me rude, I wish we were all nude.” Idolator was lucky enough to snag an internal memo between the NFL and CBS in which clueless-yet-inventive entertainment coordinators and PR flacks attempted to concoct some alternative options for the Purple One’s performance. After the jump, see the highlights.
Welcome to another edition of “Please Release Me,” in which your Idolators request–nay beg–that an out-of-print, delayed or held-up-in-customs album be issued Stateside: Artist: BMX BanditsHometown: Bellshill, Lanarkshire, ScotlandAlbum: C86 Plus, 1992What is it?: The Bandits, formed by Duglas… More »
Above The Law was one of the earliest signees to Eazy-E’s Ruthless Records, and its second full-length, Black Mafia Life, is quintessential post-Chronic West Coast rap: It has gleefully misogynstic (and, like N.W.A., darkly cartoonish) lyrics incorporate copious references to pimping, drugs,… More »
While the fallout from the EMI shuffle/merger has yet to fully reveal itself, we’ve noticed a trend in recent releases under the imprint, one which certainly smells of on-the-cheap repackaging and dubious canon creation. More »
Eric Harvey here, taking the baton from Dan Gibson and filling in for your esteemed Idolator Brian, who, despite vicious rumors to the contrary, is not bedbound in my rural home like James Caan in Misery. Not at all. More »
Time for another installment of the Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files, where we search through our record collection in search of a lost gem. More »
Future Pilot AKA is the ever-changing musical vehicle of ex-BMX Bandit/Soup Dragon Sushil K. Dade, and Secrets From the Clockhouse, coming out next week on Creeping Bent Records, is his latest attempt at trans-cultural pop. More »
Despite constant listens, we’re unable to come up with a fitting genre classification for Jean-Claude Vannier’s 1972 opus L’Enfant Assassin des Mouches (translation: The Child Assassin of the Flies), which finally saw reissue last year on Finders Keepers. Demented orchestral prog? More »
