2001 – Rocknerd

Spill News: Hi God People, Undecisive God, Mash 2

12 December, 200119 December, 2016 Live 0

Thrills and chills from Spill-associated bands, weekend after next. Fortify yourself against Christmas: The Hi God People will play with Five Fold Galactic Bells

Review: Vodka Party, The Tigers – Pony, Melbourne, Thu 06 Dec 2001

11 December, 200118 May, 2017 Indie, Live, Punk 5

Go see both bands any chance you get. Nice venue, too. If bloody tiny.

Ride – CUB Malthouse, Wed 05 Dec 2001

8 December, 20019 July, 2013 Theatre 0

Writer and director: Jane Bodie. Two people wake up next to each other with no memory of the night before. Hey, we’ve all been

Record companies push unusable download service again.

6 December, 200110 May, 2018 mp3 0

The recording industry is yet again offering a downloadable music service consumers can’t use – no MP3s, songs not transferable to portable music players

Bird Blobs, Vodka Party – Empress, North Fitzroy, Sat 01 Dec 2001.

3 December, 200118 May, 2017 Indie, Live, Punk 0

Bird Blobs: Ian Wadley is the greatest guitarist in rock. Vodka Party: have a tuba. A good night surrounded by unfamiliar attractive people.

Rocket Science Single Launch – Corner Hotel, Fri 30 Nov 2001

30 November, 20012 October, 2016 Live 4

Review by Daniel So, the question is, did they or didn’t they? Having seen this and having been scared and confused, would the smocks

Slayer live in Dublin

1 November, 20012 October, 2016 Live, Metal 1

review by Anna Several weeks ago I found myself at one of Dublin’s largest venues, surrounded by thousands of long-greasey-haired, skinny, sickly-looking, hopelessly drunk

Brave refusal to censor semi alternative single by Clear Channel station

28 October, 200120 May, 2017 Media, Radio 2

Accidentally heard on Mix 101.1 this afternoon, the Ben Folds single ‘Rockin’ the Suburbs’… but not the radio edit. When you hear RtS on

Sunglasses After Dark 21st Birthday (The Tote, Sun 21 Oct 2001).

24 October, 200115 August, 2008 Live 0

It’s too loud and I’m too old. But a good cause, a good show (The Redresser, Mustang, Casanovas, Speed Demons, Fez Perez and Six

Review: John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars

23 October, 200123 August, 2016 Film 0

I’d give a spoiler warning, but that would require a plot to spoil.

I had in reality already seen this movie. I seem to recall my ex hiring out
“John Carpenter’s Vampires” a couple of years ago. This film was almost
identical and still just as bad the second time around. However, not only did
Mr Carpenter take on directing and executive producing roles, he also composed
the music (which I will not even begin to attempt to describe).

As I attended a preview of this godawful shite someone had the gall to call a
film, it is my civic duty to make sure that no-one else suffers the same agony.
This is a community service announcement.

Crippled CD Database

16 October, 200110 July, 2013 Audio 2

Charles Heffner of Fat Chuck’s has started a corrupt CD database, so that you, the consumer, are adequately warned of defective product. The page

Breathtaking audacity: the RIAA tries to get the right to hack your computer

16 October, 200124 September, 2016 Industry, mp3, Your rights 3

In the wake of September 11, the RIAA is trying to score the right to hack your PC in search of MP3s without legal consequence for damage.

It’s no rock shock – Hamish honks

13 October, 20011 October, 2016 Live 1

review by rox-teddy So bad it’s coming soon to JJJ. Due to the astonishing lack of advertisements shown before Friday night’s 6.40pm screening of

Another nail in the coffin for live music in Melbourne: Punter’s Club sold

11 October, 200118 November, 2016 Live 8

The Continental, The Espy … now The Punters Club. It’s official, The Punters Club has been sold. Here’s the press release.

CD Copy Protection: Tripping The Rippers.

30 September, 200115 August, 2008 Audio 0

An excellent article on CNet, updating on the issue in depth. Also: an interview with SunnComm, who did the copy protection on the Charley

Classic power ballads.

24 September, 20013 May, 2017 Opinion, Rock 0

When the adolescent males have slammed, stagedived and pogoed their little hearts out to your fast ones, going up to four (or even five) chords (on acoustic, of course) with that big, slow “thump … tha-THUMP … thump … tha-THUMP” drum line will cement your cred as a truly great writer of truly moving songs and not just another spandex-clad, fretwanking attention-seeker searching the front row for male adulation and female lust dumb enough to lead to a night with you.

Copy-protected CD sighted: new Michael Jackson single.

23 September, 200115 August, 2008 Audio 6

The first major release of a copy-protected CD appears to be “Rock Your World” by Michael Jackson, according to Need To Know – the

Never Mind Lash, Here’s This Is Serious Mum (Evelyn, Fri 21 Sep 2001)

22 September, 200121 August, 2016 Live 1

2nd TISM show at the Evil Lyn – next verse, same as the first. (Apparently.)

A loose roomful of people paid six bucks to see TISM tonight (Friday 22nd Sept.), except for the quarter of the audience who were immediate family members. Personally, I’m left thinking “But now I’ve paid twenty fucking dollars to see what will probably be an identical show???” Well, I’m clearly a …

Burt Fucking Whoopee

22 September, 200128 April, 2017 Opinion, Pop 3

After a few glasses of water to clear the slightly hung over feeling, I realised something that had been bothering me from last night. This is stupid, but I feel I have to respond to certain assertions made in the TISM song “BFW”. It has primarily to do with the idea of the artist vs producer divide which has emerged in the last twenty years. (Hey, the URL says Rock Nerd – you can’t have the rock without the nerd.)

Rock Widow.

22 September, 200121 March, 2021 Sex 0

In light of recent attempts of mine to pick up, it’s probably good to remind myself of why screwing musicians sucks. This article was written a few years ago and is a little bit dated – I’m not sure if Michael Gudinski has any actual influence in The Biz these days – so if anyone has any ideas to update it I’m not too proud to steal them.

Dedicated to the forgotten buttress of the rock industry, the non-musician wife or girlfriend.

Clear Channel will protect your tender sensibilities.

19 September, 200120 May, 2017 Media, Radio 8

Clear Channel, the company working to ensure as absolute a playlist monoculture in the US as possible – and which is sniffing around radio

Blow your brains on to the ceiling

15 September, 20013 May, 2017 Opinion 4

OK, those of you who had TISM’s ‘Kill Americans’ on high rotation for the past week – you do understand that it’s you being taken the piss out of, don’t you?

Tori Amos fans say Rocknerd blows goats

10 September, 20015 September, 2016 Rocknerd 3

Way back in July contributor Miss Alex posted a preview of the then-upcoming Tori Amos covers record, Strange Little Girls. Just a few days

New Waver waver

10 September, 200123 August, 2016 Indie 4

New Waver no longer a live act? Melbourne band New Waver have recently announced their retirement from the live music scene, claiming they will

Review: He Died with a Felafel in His Hand

1 September, 200124 September, 2016 Film 2

Lowenstein did it better with Dogs in Space.

‘Factsheet 5’ to return.

30 August, 20018 August, 2017 Media 1

Factsheet 5, the magazine of fanzine reviews, is to recommence publication after a three-year hiatus. The new publisher is Dwayne-Michael Alborn, a 22-year-old marketing