The Worst Album Cover Of 2007 Revealed: Budding Art Directors, Take Note [Art Brutes]

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Well, the weeks of polling are over, and we have a winner in our first annual Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament. Before you click through, feel free to reflect on our final eight, and check…

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As predicted by pretty much everyone, the … [Ringtones]

Kent emailed us this:
As predicted by pretty much everyone, the ringtone business is starting to experience what the suits like to call “negative growth,” and companies that once specialized in ringtones are now looking…

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The Jonas Brothers Backlash Loses Its Voice, Retains Its Ability To Drive 13-Year-Old Girls Crazy [Point/counterpoint/counterpoint]

Kent sent us a link to this:
I don’t know why, but the latest video from the Jonas Brothers-hating ADiehardFOBFan, in which she uses scrawled-on pieces of paper to tell the YouTube hordes that she was just kidding about her…

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Brooklyn Cars

Thanks Sam, for pointing out:
Recorded with lots of bleed to 2" analog tape in a very cold studio in an old barn upstate New York (and vocals, keys and other overdubs done in a warmer environment back in NYC), this is a song about fan culture in the internet age. Sorta. And fun. From […]

Idolator’s 2007 Top 40 List Of Awesomeness: The 10 Tunes That Almost Made It [Idolator’s 2007 Top 40 List Of Awesomeness]

This is interesting:
Naturally we heard more than 40 great songs in 2007. And so before we get to the top two slots, here are 10 tracks that might have made it into our list of awesomeness on another day, from Radio…

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Order of the Dual

Found this:
Riff-heavy rock/metal, from a long long time ago. Lyrics inside. They call me lord of the jeweled knife
And my lady mistress of the crescent moon
I am the time and the tide of life,
She is nature, writer of the sacred runes
The breath of dew in the morning air
In every moment we are everywhere
The […]

The lead singer of Lifehouse wrote a jingle … [Murketing]

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The lead singer of Lifehouse wrote a jingle for Allstate, and thanks to the song being available on iTunes, the track cracked the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. I’m guessing that the success was based…

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Thom Yorke: EMI Is A Bunch Of Bastards; Also, My Shift Key Is A Bit Sticky [Rebuttals]

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Thom Yorke has taken to Radiohead’s official blog to debunk the notion that Radiohead went to its former label, EMI, asking for a big payday, saying that the band is more than happy to be in…

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Morrissey Funds Smiths Youth Club

Heather emailed us this:
British singer Morrissey has made a donation to a youth club which was immortalized in an album cover by his former band The Smiths.
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Project X Takes On A Culture Bully [Project X]

Harold wrote to us about:
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…

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