Nov
10th
10th
Today’s a sad day for fans of music, fans of music writing, other music writers and bloggers, and even some of the acts themselves: Maura Johnston, who wrote and edited Idolator for three years, has left the building.
Foster Kamer, “Music Blogging Haz a Sad: Maura Johnston & Idolator Break Up” [BlackBook]. My music blog reading habits are growing ever more lackadaisical, but It’s really astonishing how quickly the site went from astute and thought-provoking, to shallow and mindless in the mere twenty-four hours since Maura departed, assuredly for even better shores. I don’t have a terrific Idolator/Maura story, but it was fun to vote in their pop poll that one year and to hang out with Maura on a Coachella picnic table the time that we ditched the awful headliner for Black Mountain instead. Godspeed!
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