How much worse can that new music blog Idolator get?

I like snark as much as the next guy and I'm all for everything being fair game, but picking on Save the Gramophone for being exceedingly flowery kinda feels like ragging on Jefferson Smith for having a corny-ass plan for a kid's camp. Say what you will about the in-house style, but I've never thought it was Sean or anyone hopping on a song as an excuse to stroke their creative writing cock - I always just thought some people's enthusiasm comes across in more oblique forms.

well isn't this rich. idolator, a member of the gawker empire, is bemoaning the lack of sensitivity in a rolling stone piece joking about mark foley. it is too "offensive" for them.

first they break a shocking plagarism scandal rocking the mp3 blogosphere, now this!

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/mark-foley/your-dramatic-reading-of-the-mark-foley-ims-post-205055.php

or this: http://www.wonkette.com/politics/mark-foley/mark-foley-does-literally-during-house-session-what-rest-of-congress-only-does-metaphorically-204965.php

i mean, how dare they find "a powerful politician trying to solicit sex from minors" to be "amusing!"

How much worse can that new music blog Idolator get?
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oh, don weiner, you doofus you
to idolator ilx ... saved by 1 other person ... on sept 22

Did Blount ever get a gig at Idolator or was his hissy fit here for nothing?

i heard he rejoined the navy

i think i was one of the 'crypto-tories'.

RIP big man. Heaven needed an American.

never forget (tho it has nothing to do with him)
actually, blount...

q: how much worse can that new music blog idolator get?

a: they just hired military strongwoman jessica harvell

so, jess is making this worth an occasional read. good job.

yeah, dude's liveblog of the congressional hip-hop hearings was especially ace.

lol don weiner.

ever since they addded jess, matos' column, that chart column and now Alex in Baltimore's column its become probably one of the better music blogs on the internet.

tho i will say that i remember one of the first times they did that "anonymous magazine slander" columns, i think jess left a comment that said something like "the anonymous part of this is bullshit," but it still runs.

also, their cmj coverage has been A+++

haha "ever since they hired half of ILM its become probably one of the better music blogs on the internet."

i wasn't gonna say it...

yeah the anonymity of that column is kinda lame but it's still one of the best parts of the site and if whoever it is needs to be "Your Correspondent" to feel ok about saying really blunt, funny, OTM stuff about Christgau or whoever then so be it.

i totally agree with you, i was just saying.

thanks for the props, btw, although my column has deprived ILM of my passion for starting a Rolling 2007/8 Corporate Rock Thread.

yeah no problem. i have more of an interest in modern rock as a genre than i do a like for the music itself, but it's hard to find anyone covering it/ talking about it (intelligently) nowadays (except for like alternative press or something, but fuck that), except for like blender (which is one of the reasons it's my fav mag on the stands right now) or maybe rolling stone but that always seems more forced than anything.

too bad about the ilxor on another gawker site

didn't know you were on it, alex in baltimore, i will look for your writing

yeah it was weird to see ethan show up on fleshbot.

xpost.

thanks for the props, btw, although my column has deprived ILM of my passion for starting a Rolling 2007/8 Corporate Rock Thread.

Yeah, it occurred to me in retrospect that my rolling emo thread that gets five posts a month, if that, should have been broader. Your column has nice potential.

I find this thread title annoyingly unfair.

gawker media flog idolator to buzznet... who also own stereogum

Idolator Joins Stereogum at Buzznet
http://www.catbirdseat.org/archives/000973.php

was just reading the comments at Idolator about this.

synergy.. idolator and stereogum display latest rss content on both sites

stereolator idolgum

getting away from the shitty gawker template can only make it less worse