Blog: Idolator

Well, the big story this week was probably the shuttering of Blender , the pop magazine who suffered the one-two punch of being a printed entity about music in 2009. Blender 's overarching popism was a big influence on Idolator from the time of its launch in 2006, and even as the death spiral of ad pages resulted in its once-mighty reviews section being whittled down to a handful of 130-word blurbs, I admired its spunk and willingness to reach across the musical comfort zones that divide people more often than not these days, if not always its [...]