This week, the cheap shitty MP3 player is filled with improvised noise. I have entirely too high a tolerance for this sort of thing if it’s the right genre, in this case early industrial — all those albums from the eighties released in limited editions of a few hundred for the Artist’s Shit market.
Read MoreMonth: April 2009
Sound copyright extended into perpetuity.
TALKIN’ ABOUT, Degeneration, Thursday (NNME) — With the conviction of The Pirate Bay administrators having immediately abolished all filesharing, the EU has approved an
Read MoreMusic is free. In China.
Google now gives away legal downloads in China. And thus the official market catches up with the kids with 500GB USB drive parties. Meanwhile,
Read MoreDancing about architecture! What is it good for?
Back in my day, we had to search the dial for radio that didn’t suck and search the city for the one record shop that didn’t suck. And pay money for music! On pieces of plastic!
Read MoreIron Maiden: Flight 666
Iron Maiden has a global fanbase, they even played Poland while it was still in the Soviet Bloc, but there is no better illustration
Read MoreOh dear.
Today’s Penny Arcade.
Read MoreThe Boat That Rocked
I was hoping The Boat That Rocked would at least be fictionalised reality about British pirate radio in the sixties, in the manner of
Read MorePRS demands middle-aged kicks all through the nap.
MIDEM, Cash from Chaos, 1977 (NNN) — The Performing Right Society and UK Music have come out strongly against YouTube and Google for not
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