– If you download one song today, make it Dinosaur L’s stretched-out workout “Go Bang.” [20 Jazz Funk Greats] – Eight songs for anyone who’s too tongue-tied to propose. [BuzzSugar] – Gram Parsons’ musical ambitions, viewed through the lens of people who covered his songs. More »
A few months ago, when we read Pitchfork’s tirade-y description of a few Amy Winehouse singles–in which the singer is described as all-caps “TERRIBLE”–we figured the ‘Fork was officially declaring its anti-Amy stance. More »
Every Tuesday night, starry-eyed young girls and pantless old men settle down for another episode of the CW’s latest reality show, Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll. Our guide to yesterday’s installment after the click-through.
Now that the final Soundscan numbers are trickling in, it looks as though today will soon be officially declared Modest Mouse Day–not only here at the Idolator flophouse, but around the world (Bush will speak on the matter at noon, and aides say the President will confess that he finds Johnny… More »
Anthony Lovato, the former Mest lead singer who was arrested earlier this week for allegedly stabbing another man, Wayne Hughes, in a Southern California parking lot, had all charges against him dismissed yesterday. More »
A new Tapemasters, Inc. mix is circulating around the web, and while we haven’t had the chance to take it all in yet, one song leaps out from the tracklist: Beyoncé’s “World Wide Woman,” which is from the soon-to-be-released expanded version of Bidet. More »
PICK: Eugenius – Breakfast / Flame On / Oomalama [more info] Beyoncé – World Wide Woman [more info] Modest Mouse – King Rat [more info] The Picture – So Many Days [more… More »
The Wall Street Journal‘s Lee Gomes has a column today that lands squarely on the side of the XM-Sirius merger, and while we’re not wholly convinced, we’re intrigued by Gomes’ closing rationale as to why he’s in its favor:
Still, there is a reason to root for a merger, and it involves the group most actively opposing it: the broadcast lobby. When XM and Sirius made their announcement, a spokesman for broadcasters said the satellite-radio companies were looking for a “government bailout.”
But this argument is from the possessors of one of Washington’s most potent lobbying forces. If any group is skilled in the ways of governmental largess, it’s broadcasters.
If you fret about diminished choices with a joined Sirius and XM, think for a second about commercial radio in the U.S. Its ownership is highly concentrated, its programming is most commonly described as “soulless” and it is missing most of the public-interest programming we used to take for granted.
A post on the Velvet Rope tipped us off to the fact that Village Voice faves The Bravery had a new song, “Time Won’t Let Me Go,” up on their MySpace page, and in the interest of “journalism,” we went over to give the song a listen. More »
A mere 10% of our readers thought that Modest Mouse’s We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank would top the 125,000-copies sold mark last week, and it turns out that the minority was right: Thanks in part, no doubt, to some key American Idol placement, the Johnny Marr-fortified outfit sold 129,000 copies of Ship, a tally high enough to give them the No. 1 slot on this week’s Billboard 200. Coming in at No. 2 was ersatz soulstress Joss Stone, whose Introducing Joss Stone moved 118,000 copies last week.
