Tagged: listeningpost

It's Pinkpop week-end again, the festival being named after Pinksteren (that is Pentecost for us English speakers) - the Pink Doll was an afterthought - that is the fixed date for it and this year it's no different. People in Holland* can watch several performances streaming live on http://pinkpop.vpro.nl/2011 and on Cultura24 en 101.TV. ( Read This - in Dutch - if you're interested). I don't know of any live stream accesible to people outside Holland, if you do please let me know ASAP. For us foreigners, well.. I hope it [...]

L! O! V! E! At long last-it's here! Listen to Nicola Roberts ' debut solo single "Beat Of My Drum" NOW! Full review to come, but... TOP CONTENDER FOR SINGLE OF THE YEAR? OH, METHINKS YES.

LISTENING POST! Beyoncé 's second single from her upcoming studio album 4 has just arrived: "Best Thing I Never Had." Take a listen to the Babyface -penned mid-tempo above, which will be released on Tuesday, June 28. Review to come... Thoughts?

Following the release of "The Edge of Glory" last week , Lady Gaga has just released the next song in the ongoing iTunes Countdown to Born This Way today: "Hair." (Thank you, Jon Ali !) Click above to listen to "Hair." Throw your thoughts in the comment section below! "Hair" was released on May 16. ( iTunes )

LISTENING POST! Have a listen to Lady Gaga 's latest song off of Born This Way , "Edge of Glory," produced by Fernando Garibay , thanks to Gaga Daily . I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! Review to follow tonight....

I really can't pretend to know anything about dance music created in this decade, so when sometime Idolator Michelangelo Matos recommends something, I usually just go and get it. He knows better than I would after all, and I probably should find some way to thank him for mentioning A-Trak's upcoming mix in the Fabriclive series, hitting stores in the US on May 5th. The mix jumps from style to style, from older house records to Baltimore club tracks, but overall, the disc is slightly over an hour of [...]

Sure, the video for Still Flyin's "Good Thing Its A Ghost Town Around Here" would have been a much better fit if I had actually found it around Halloween, but the song is still a fun distraction for the weekend. The San Francisco "surf/surf/surf" outfit has an album coming out soon, and it might also have one of the most irritating aesthetics of any indie act in recent memory—their "Hang Loose" determination to rid the world of harsh buzzes is seemingly assembled from a collection of early-'80s Ocean Pacific t-shirts—but there are a few hooky tracks up its cotton [...]

While Idolator wouldn't likely be considered a friend of the site , I felt a little sad to see the news that Wired is closing its music blog Listening Post , sending Eliot Van Buskirk to the site's business blog and Scott Thill to the culture blog Epicenter. I don't know if I'll miss the site's two or three posts a day, but I don't think I'd go to the extent of the commenter on the finale post who said "can't you get rid of scott shill and keep the blog?" [ Listening [...]

a sad, sad day. a blog that i read daily about the intersection of technology and music. i guess you can read the back articles (and hope for new ones) HERE .

Have you ever felt like the 90-word capsule reviews that pass as "music criticism" these days were too, like, long, man? Or thought that the slavishly press-release-ready writeups proffered by music bloggers didn't get to the thumbs-up/thumbs-down point quickly enough for you to figure out whether or not you were going to go off and not pay for a record? Well, have we got the site for you: Musebin , a "music reviews that restrict opinions to 140 characters or less but don't restrict those opinions from being voted on by other users popularity-contest style" Web 2.0 clusterfuck. OK, [...]

A funny thing about this brave new Internet world of ours is something I call the BoingBoing effect. A site that's a very good aggregator can attract a large audience by posting frequently and picking great and unique things to link to. But if there's a particular mindset to the site, it can get passed on to its audience incidentally, and be validated by the site's own popularity and authority. In the case of BoingBoing, a self-proclaimed "directory of wonderful things," it's their particular philosophy on the "free" nature of information. As it applies [...]

A funny thing about this brave new Internet world of ours is something I call the BoingBoing effect. A site that's a very good aggregator can attract a large audience by posting frequently and picking great and unique things to link to. But if there's a particular mindset to the site, it can get passed on to its audience incidentally, and be validated by the site's own popularity and authority. In the case of BoingBoing, a self-proclaimed "directory of wonderful things," it's their particular philosophy on the "free" nature of information. As it applies [...]

A funny thing about this brave new Internet world of ours is something I call the BoingBoing effect. A site that's a very good aggregator can attract a large audience by posting frequently and picking great and unique things to link to. But if there's a particular mindset to the site, it can get passed on to its audience incidentally, and be validated by the site's own popularity and authority. In the case of BoingBoing, a self-proclaimed "directory of wonderful things," it's their particular philosophy on the "free" nature of information. As it applies [...]

Currently over on - and exclusive to - Wired's listening post blog, a rare 1996 Stereolab live video, the first in a run of 'lab exclusives that they've got in the run-up to the new record. [Less exclusive, no less lovely: The Stereolab/McCathy weekend ]

The Listening Post catches up with Neil Halstead and asks about Slowdive reunions: No, there are no plans to get Slowdive back together. We had a lot of pedals, a lot of love and some good grass. When the love ran out, we sold the grass and smoked the pedals.