Last week, we told you about Tila Tequila’s plan to prove to the world that her 1.7 million MySpace friends are willing to buy her music, especially if it’s packaged with a “fucking HOT!” (her words) video. More »
Sometimes we need a little help tracking down the songs we so desperately want to prattle on about. If you happen to have DRM-free MP3s of any of the following, please drop us a line at brian@idolator.com, and we’ll hook you… More »
Despite a 53% dip in sales last week, Norah Jones’ third album, Not Too Late, remains atop the Billboard 200. More »
Time for another installment of the Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files, where we raid our archives in search of a lost gem. Artist: StarsSong: “Elevator Love Letter,” 2002What happened: Before finding indie-rock infamy with 2004’s Set Yourself On Fire, Canada’s Stars released the sparkling Heart. More »
Every once in a while, we check in with Infofilter’s “Top 50 Music Torrents” list, for two reasons: 1) It provides a quick snapshot of the general public’s random, bonkers, and randomly bonkers musical preferences; and 2) it demonstrates how the music business is inching ever so closer to full-on… More »
Welcome to Idolator’s American Idolatry, our episode-by-episode breakdown of the American Idol process. Last night’s episode, which featured the 10 remaining guys in the competition, was full of bad decisions–there were ill-advised hats, yawn-worthy song choices, and creepy innuendoes that came out of the dedications slapped on to each performance.
– Phish’s Trey Anastasio is expected to appear in an upstate New York court today to face felony drug charges stemming from his December 2006 arrest. He’ll address an outstanding 1988 warrant for “excessive noodling.” More »
OnSmash has the video for the Timbaland/Timberlake/Furtado track “Give It To Me,” in which each performer takes on an anonymous big star: Timbaland lashes out against a “piano man” who is, alas, probably not BIlly Joel, and Furtado disses an anonymous hyphenate. More »
From today’s Wall Street Journal: Google Inc.’s YouTube is broadening its efforts to legitimize music and videos posted on its video-sharing site through a deal that will authorize the use of hit music by several acts signed to a prominent independent label. More »
Time for another installment of the Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files, where we raid our archives in search of a lost gem. Artist: The GlandsAlbum: The Glands, 2000What happened: The second album from this Athens, Ga. More »
