As part of Idolator’s continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin’ Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he tackles the Sept. 22 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Top 10 and finds himself stranded in a very cheesy 1997:
As part of Idolator’s continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin’ Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he tackles the Sept. 8 Billboard Top 10 and catches its No. 1 up close and impersonal:
As part of Idolator’s continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin’ Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he tackles the best top 10 of 1957:
As part of Idolator’s continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin’ Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he cracks open the classic Marshall Crenshaw-edited book Hollywood Rock: A Guide to Rock’n’Roll in the Movies and looks at the book’s 10 highest-ranking movies released between 1959 and 1964:
Even in the MP3 age, there are CDs worth searching out–that require the search. “O.O.P., We Did It Again” is dedicated to great albums that are criminally out of print–and that are unlikely to become available anytime soon.
The album: Wanna Buy a Bridge? (Rough Trade, 1980), a 14-single compilation designed to showcase the U.K. independent label Rough Trade’s wares to American audiences.
As part of Idolator’s continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin’ Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he breaks down the departed British dance magazine Muzik‘s Top 10 Singles of 1999:
Good morning. Matos here again. Say, did you know that this past Sunday was Louis Jordan’s birthday? He’d have been 99 years old had he not passed away in 1975. Wait, you don’t know Louis Jordan? Do you hate fun? No? Then take a gander at this video (or rather, “soundie”) for his mid-40s smash “Caldonia” and remember one of pop music’s all-time greats:
How to interpret the newly announced contest to find “the next Great Rock Journalist” (their caps, not ours)? Maybe, having seen what’s become of music writing, Bigstring, the Documentary Channel, Ticketmaster, and Virgin Mobile decided to try to reverse, at least a little, the decimated ambition, foreshortened word counts, and it’s-all-good critical acumen increasingly typical in the field. Or, more likely, it’s a way to get the corporate message out in the name of “journalism”:
The Madrid music blog Kevipod has the long-awaited (we’re sure someone has long been awaiting it) Avril Lavigne cover of Coldplay’s “The Scientist,” which she recently performed on BBC Radio 1. More »
Even in the MP3 age, there are CDs worth searching out–that require the search. Thus, Idolator’s new regular feature: O.O.P., We Did It Again is dedicated to great albums that are criminally out of print–and that are unlikely to become available anytime soon.
The album: Ocean of Sound (Virgin AMBT, 1996), a two-CD soundtrack to David Toop’s book compiled by the author.
