Björk performs at the New York Hall of Science. Photo courtesy of bjork.com Each week, Lizzy Goodman guides you through the dirty streets of rock and roll. I knew it was going to be a good day when I showed up at my café around 11 in the morning earlier this week and found Malcolm Gladwell at my regular table
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Björk’s ‘Biophilia’ Concert, the Coolest Science Class Ever
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 9th, 2012
Watch the Edits: Comparing Nicki’s “Stupid” and the Throne’s “Paris”
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 9th, 2012
Photos courtesy of Getty Images Censored rap videos are now cool … at least for hip-hop’s most stupendous stars.
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Tags: christmas, michael-jackson, minaj, music-video, nicki-minaj, paris, rampant-cursing, rapstresses, stupid-stupid, the-throne, throne, videos 
No Comments »Watch the Edits: Comparing Nicki’s “Stupid” and the Throne’s “Paris”
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 9th, 2012
Photos courtesy of Getty Images Censored rap videos are now cool … at least for hip-hop’s most stupendous stars.
Posted in Rock Tags: editing, michael-jackson, mtv, nicki-minaj, paris, stupid-stupid, watch-the-video No Comments »Spotify Playlist: Hive’s Love is for Losers
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 9th, 2012
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and for all you sappy singles out there, Hive’s put together the perfect playlist for your annual self-loathing session. We’re not trying to be mean — we just know music is the best medicine
Posted in Rock Tags: annual, castles, crystal castles, mtv, music technology, music-news, put-together, sappy-singles, spotify, talking heads, threw-together, valentine No Comments »Spotify Playlist: Hive’s Love is for Losers
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 9th, 2012
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and for all you sappy singles out there, Hive’s put together the perfect playlist for your annual self-loathing session. We’re not trying to be mean — we just know music is the best medicine
Posted in Rock Tags: annual, crystal castles, mtv, music technology, not-trying, peter sartsedt, put-together, sappy-singles, spotify, talking heads No Comments »Google Maps Enables Cross-Country Club Hopping
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 9th, 2012
Photo taken from Google Maps. Google Maps is making cross-country club hopping easier than ever, having just released street view accessibility inside of London’s famous Fabric music venue, host of the popular Fabric Live mix series (Four Tet’s Fabric mix was one of Hive’s favorites of 2011 ). Those who haven’t the visited the U.K
Posted in Rock Tags: api, fabric, fabric-live, from-recording, grammy, grammys, hardwood-dance, hotel, london, music technology, music-news, Pop, song-references No Comments »Lana Del Rey, Skrillex, the Black Keys Nominated for mtvU Woodie Awards
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 9th, 2012
Photo: Nicole Nodland mtvU’s annual Woodie Awards will return to South By Southwest in Austin, Texas this March. Along with the award show, scheduled to take place on March 15, there will be a day-long music festival starting at 1pm CST.
Posted in Rock Tags: a$ap rocky, breaking-woodie, cloud-nothings, kendrick-lamar, laidback-luke, lana del rey, martin-solveig, music-news, texas, the-black-keys, woodies No Comments »Make Meme History On Grammy Night
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 9th, 2012
Image courtesy of Tumblr, Who Is Arcade Fire? Every large-scale event has its memorable, meme-worthy moments — M.I.A.’s Super Bowl bird-flippage being the most timely example. Usually, however, you have to wait until the next day for those moments to start circulating in earnest on Ye Olde Internets.
Posted in Rock Tags: awards, being-the-most, bon-iver, captions-on-its, cheezburger, features, grammy, grammy-awards, grammys No Comments »Weird Vibes Episode 7: Buzzline
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 9th, 2012
Posted in Rock Tags: au revoir simone, beach fossils, class-actress, dublab-vision, esteemed-panel, from-the-likes, green, revoir-simone, smith-westerns, videos, weird-vibes No Comments »Hive Five: What Tennis Learned From Patrick Carney
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 9th, 2012
Photo: Takesha Sugi Every band has its origin story — a saga that the public delves into with the enthusiasm of tackling a college lit paper, trying to parse out the details that explain just how that music came to be . And when it comes to modern-day “how we came to be” tales, Denver, Colorado, band Tennis definitely has a Odyssey on its hands
Posted in Rock Tags: advice, blonde, hive five, hotel, live, music, patrick-carney, prince, telecaster, tennis, the-black-keys No Comments »Harvey Sarcastic Disco: A Party So Good, Beyoncé Can’t Get In
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 8th, 2012
DJ Harvey photo courtesy of DJ Harvey/Facebook Every week or thereabouts, Mutant Dance Moves takes you to the shadowy corners of the dancefloor and the fringes of contemporary electronic music, where new strains and dance moves are evolving. A few weeks ago, I found myself experiencing that rarest of L.A.
Share A Digital Mixtape Via Mobile, Get New Music
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 8th, 2012
Image courtesy of Flickr, badjonni Are you one of those people who’s always sharing new music with friends, but rarely receives any recommendations in return? Don’t fret — you don’t need better/smarter/faster friends, you just need an iPhone and the motor skills to download Herd.fm. Herd.fm — which originally popped up at SXSW 2011 as a geo-location-flavored app — is out with a new mobile iteration that focuses more on sharing tunes with friends and getting recommendations than dropping tunes on a map.
Posted in Rock Tags: every-herd-fm, facebook, flickr, herd.fm, iphone, more-on-sharing, music, Pop, spotify-free No Comments »Hospitality’s Debut Album Arrives After a Heavy Wait
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 8th, 2012
Photo: Kyle Dean Reinford Hospitality ’s 2008 EP earned plenty of “band to watch” notices for the trio’s knack for sneaky hooks and scene-setting lyrics.
Posted in Rock Tags: completed-album, excitement, features, friends, Indie, indie-rock, interpersonal, market-as-soon, Rock, studio, tawny-kitaen, videos No Comments »Hospitality’s Debut Album Arrives After a Heavy Wait
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 8th, 2012
Photo: Kyle Dean Reinford Hospitality ’s 2008 EP earned plenty of “band to watch” notices for the trio’s knack for sneaky hooks and scene-setting lyrics. But the blog-buzz-band game can be a fickle one, and artists that get attention for a hot mp3 or two face an implicit pressure to get the full-length to market as soon as possible
Posted in Rock Tags: bassist-brian, development, family, features, friends, Indie, interpersonal, market-as-soon, studio, tawny-kitaen No Comments »Hospitality’s Debut Album Arrives After a Heavy Wait
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 8th, 2012
Photo: Kyle Dean Reinford Hospitality ’s 2008 EP earned plenty of “band to watch” notices for the trio’s knack for sneaky hooks and scene-setting lyrics. But the blog-buzz-band game can be a fickle one, and artists that get attention for a hot mp3 or two face an implicit pressure to get the full-length to market as soon as possible. Which didn’t happen until last week, when Merge released their self-titled debut
Posted in Rock Tags: completed-album, family, features, Indie, interpersonal, market-as-soon, Rock, scott-jacobson, studio, videos No Comments »Hive Five: Jay-Z’s Best Carnegie Hall Moments
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 8th, 2012
Jay-Z performs at Carnegie Hall, February 7, 2012.
Posted in Rock Tags: alicia-keys, black, carnegie, empire-state, featured, nas, Pop, public-service, shawn, time, world No Comments »Gucci Mane’s ‘Trap Back’ Mixtape Points in the Right Direction
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 7th, 2012
Gucci Mane attends a Knicks vs. Hawks game, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2011. Photo: Moses Robinson/WireImage If there’s any case to be made against the myth that jail time only bolsters a rap career, it’s probably Gucci Mane
Posted in Rock Tags: brilliantly, country, grafted-on-top, gucci, gucci-mane, hip-hop, moses-robinson, music, News, time, word-on-youtube, work, youtube No Comments »Sabina Sciubba Sexes Up Pretty Good Dance Moves —Video Premiere
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 7th, 2012
Posted in Rock Tags: antoine-wagner, dragon-records, featured, girls, lissie-trulie, paris, sabina sciubba, sciubba No Comments »Lightouts, “The Cure for Shyness” — Song Premiere
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 7th, 2012
Photo courtesy of Audible Treats Towards the end of 2010, Lightouts ‘ Gavin Rhodes posted a flier in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn that simply said “Robert Smith / Emily Haines where are you?” Curious bystanders probably ignored what looked like a rather confusing missing persons flier, but guitarist Greg Nelson answered this curious Cure/Metric call-to-arms, and Lightouts was born.
Posted in Rock Tags: all-together, audible-treats, confusing, gavin-rhodes, latest, listen, mp3, towards-the-end No Comments »O Music Awards Presents Unboxed
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on February 7th, 2012
Photo courtesy of Miracles of Modern Science/Facebook The O Music Awards — MTV’s award show that celebrates the constant evolution of online culture — announced a new series called Unboxed today. And like the O Music Awards, this event takes place IRL and will feature a lineup of rotating musical guests, technology spreads and generally weird, generally wonderful digital stuff
Posted in Rock Tags: miracles, mndr, modern-science, monthly, music, music-awards, music-news, o music awards No Comments »
