September 2001 – Rocknerd

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?