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Each week ZIO asks a different musician the same 11 questions via email. Visit Zoom In Music weekly for a new installment or subscribe to the RSS feed.

Every new season of The X Factor is a big event in Britain.

Every once in a while, a concert bill will bridge the past and the present perfectly.

Ever since MTV decided to recast itself as an overarching youth culture brand at the end of the 20th century, a lot of music video fans have been asking themselves:

What's going to happen to music videos?

The music blog Idolator, a one-time Gawker Media affiliate that was recently acquired by the ultra-heinous (but also ultra-well-financed) Buzznet, has new editors.

Maura Johnston, the last of the site's founding editors, is out, and Becky Bain and Robbie Daw, of E! and Towleroad, respectively, are in.

Welcome to the latest installment of ZIO's newest weekly series, Late to the Party, in which we catch you up on what everybody - from staff writers at the top outlets to the bloggers hiding in their mothers' basements - has been saying about a rising artist.

Gerhardt (Jerry) Fuchs, drummer for the bands Maserati, !!!, the Juan Maclean, and Hot Chip, died this weekend after falling down an elevator shaft.

Each week ZIO asks a different musician the same 11 questions via email. Visit Zoom In Music weekly for a new installment or subscribe to the RSS feed.

As rock 'n' roll royalty go, U2 are generally thought of as being among the most thoughtful bands in the world.

Welcome to the latest installment of ZIO's newest weekly series, Late to the Party, in which we catch you up on what everybody - from staff writers at the top outlets to the bloggers hiding in their mothers' basements - has been saying about a rising artist.

It's sometimes hard to get away from all the negativity swirling around the music industry these days.