2002 – Rocknerd

Swirl call it a day

24 December, 200218 November, 2016 Indie 3

After 12 years in music, three albums and countless EPs, Sydney indie-rock band Swirl have called it a day and gone their separate ways.

Meredith

18 December, 20022 January, 2017 Live 10

The best festival this country has to offer. Meredith Music Festival lived up to the hype yet again with its fine selection of music, beautiful weather, ice cold beer, good food and fun times had by all.

RIAA cooked the books to invent “piracy problem.”

18 December, 20026 May, 2018 Industry 0

From boingboing.net: A new research report suggests that the convicted price-fixers at the RIAA cooked the books to create a nonexistent “piracy problem.” “So

Vivendi raided; deep cost cuts coming at Universal

14 December, 20023 May, 2017 Industry 0

Following the earlier SEC probe into financial irregularities, the French authorities have raided Vivendi’s Paris office, the office of its subsidiary Cegetel and the

Slightly saner online music sales?

21 November, 200226 December, 2016 mp3 3

As reported in a few places (including The Register), Universal are making 43,000 tracks available for online purchase – US$0.99 a track, around US$10

How the mighty tumble: Universal in SEC probe

20 November, 200224 September, 2016 Industry 1

posted by Oh Yeah Vivendi Universal, the ultimate parent company of Universal Music, is under US Securities and Exchange Commission investigation over their accounting

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine/Jim’s Super Stereoworld/Abdoujaparov – Mean Fiddler, London, Fri 15 Nov 2002

17 November, 20024 November, 2021 Indie, Live 0

review by Teqkiller Met up with Vicky and Nick (rhyming potential is overwhelming here) in the Wetherspoons that’s where the Marquee used to be

EMI: “Quit whining, pirate scum!”

9 November, 20022 January, 2017 Audio, Industry, mp3, Your rights 6

Over at El Reg they’ve been running a few pieces lately about responses from record label “customer relations” departments to purchasers who’ve complained about

Emperor Norton in shock music giveaway

4 November, 20024 November, 2021 mp3, Record 2

This may not be the newest news around, but… For those who haven’t noticed, Emperor Norton Records have started putting some new albums, in

Tankt – Heresy, Melbourne, Sat 26 Oct 2002

29 October, 200223 August, 2016 Industrial, Live 0

Now, it’s no secret that I’m neither an expert on nor a great fan of electronic music. In fact, I have been known to bitch long and hard about the dominance of electro music in the goth scene and the lack of opportunity for those of us that aren’t especially fond of it to have a night out without a playlist disproportionately dominated by doof.

Basically, as Homer Simpson would put it, I don’t understand it because I don’t like it. So, anything I have to say about Tankt should be taken with that in mind.

Because, quite frankly, Tankt fucking rocked!

Breaking new barriers in marketing.

29 October, 200225 August, 2016 Rocknerd 0

Rocknerd.org gets all sorts of things submitted through the ‘post article’ web form – lots of press releases, lots of faintly-disguised press releases, illiterate

Mogwai – Prince of Wales, St Kilda, Thursday Oct 17th 2002

19 October, 20024 November, 2021 Live 2

review by Trayce Seeing Mogwai live was a rollercoaster of a night in emotional terms. And it is on these terms I find myself

Road To Perdition

7 October, 20022 October, 2016 Film 0

review by Andrew Tijs Looks like Tom Hanks, Paul Newman and Sam Mendes are prematurely dusting their Oscar shelves for the release of the

Review: No Idea, Mutiny, Homewreckers – Empress, Fri 13th Sept 2002

1 October, 200223 August, 2016 Live, Punk 0

Garlic pills and codrals kept my cold from turning into the flu it was trying all week to become, so I could go catch the fun at the Empress on Friday.

Friday 13th made it a mini-Halloween for the night, with an appropriately themed night. The Empress didn’t need much of a makeover, with the usual red velvet and candleabra giving it a gothic feel to begin with. Various bits of cobweb, and a huge spider web (complete with spider) stretched across the back of the stage was enough to set the mood. Early on very few seemed to have dressed up for the occasion, but as the place filled up more zombies, devils and ghouls began to appear in the crowd.

DVD region encoding is dead

24 September, 20024 November, 2021 Film 2

Not that Hollywood is necessarily smart enough to pick up on it. NTK reports on DVDSynth, a Windows program that sits between your DVD

Review: Kim Salmon, E(a)rnest

16 September, 200224 September, 2016 Record, Rock 0

Long term fans of Mr Salmon’s heavier works may have been in the main disappointed by the musical detours of recent years (a subject he actually canvases on this album), but nevertheless respect was always due for the fact he had decided to go his own way rather than merely retread the past.

Ogg Vorbis 1.0 hardware decoder released free

5 September, 20022 January, 2017 Audio, mp3 5

As it’s run its short commercial life, Xiph.org have freely released the integer decoder for Ogg Vorbis – that is, the version that will

RIAA website hack: MP3s offered for download

1 September, 200224 September, 2016 Industry, mp3 0

After the third in a series of website hacks, the RIAA has fixed its website … except for this page. The page is presently

The MP3 shakedown begins: US$2000 to put your songs up

29 August, 200224 September, 2016 Industry, mp3 5

It’s been long forecast, and is on at last: Fraunhofer and Thomson Multimedia have new rates for the use of MP3. Non-commercial decoders were

Lobby Loyde: godfather of Australian hard rock

23 August, 200224 September, 2016 Rock 0

A fascinating interview with Lobby Loyde, the guitarist cited by Cobain, Rollins and Bored! (who covered two of his songs), in today’s EG in

TrouserPress.com Relaunched

18 August, 200224 September, 2016 Writing 0

Ira Robbins, editor of Trouser Press‘ seminal guides to alternative rock music in the ’80s and ’90s, has relaunched their online companion – with

Janis Ian Redux

7 August, 20024 November, 2021 Industry, mp3 1

posted by Anthony Horan Janis Ian has posted a follow-up to her much-read Internet Debacle feature, with a new reaction piece called Fallout. Is

Mp3 servers: missing in action?

6 August, 20022 October, 2016 mp3 2

posted by Kevin Mp3 servers…where are you? So, here’s the deal, I’ve spent the past year or two collecting records, ripping, downloading, and otherwise

Encore season of ABC’s Long Way to the Top

21 July, 20022 October, 2016 Television 0

ABC-TV is repeating Long Way to the Top on Saturday nights at 9:30 pm. And don’t forget the Long Way To The Top concert

TISM Best.off launch, fortyfivedownstairs gallery

17 July, 200223 August, 2016 Live, Record 0

The unfortunately-timed TISM greatest hits compilation, tism.bestoff, (which is being released less than a year after their last studio album DeRigueurmortis, which was delayed by two years anyway) was launched at Melbourne art gallery fortyfivedownstairs on Tuesday night. If you’ve ever harboured a desire to have Ron Hitler Barassi serving you sushi, you shoulda been there.

The Universal Music award for excellence in customer relations.

4 July, 20024 November, 2021 Industry 2

Los Angeles Times Calendar Live posits that the real enemy of the CD market is not the Internet – it’s the DVD market. For

Vivendi Universal meltdown

4 July, 200224 September, 2016 Industry 5

Vivendi Universal’s weird transition from a French water company to a media conglomerate is — astoundingly enough — failing to hold together. Chairman Jean-Marie

Review: Severed Heads – Dendy Cinema, Sydney, Wed 19th June 2002

4 July, 200215 May, 2017 Film, Industrial, Live 0

I’ve seen a lot of the stuff before over the years but It’s All Good, and Tom Ellard (and I presume Stephen Jones) did a sterling effort transcribing it all to VCD for the big cinema screen. I think the coarse resolution of the old stuff just makes it look more organic and gritty, and suits the nature of the thing. Others disagreed, but some geeks just won’t be told.