February 2011 – Rocknerd

When you stream, you’re streaming with piracy!

26 February, 20119 January, 2017 mp3 2

My house has teenagers in it. They are actively interested in music, read Kerrang! (which is now a land of sensitive boys with floppy

Perfect sound until next time.

23 February, 20119 January, 2017 Audio 0

Apple is in talks with the majors to finally outdo CD, with 24-bit audio downloads. Current iPods can’t play it, and lossless stereo 24/96

Even in the futurepop, nothing works.

20 February, 20113 May, 2017 Industrial, Opinion, Record, Writing 0

In the early 1990s, I tried very hard to become a serious Anthony Burgess fan. A Clockwork Orange is absolutely first-class and probably my favourite novel of all time.

However, all his other novels suck. All of them.

You can’t handle the truth.

19 February, 201119 September, 2016 Musician 3

For my birthday, my darling girlfriend just gave me some shitty, shitty eight quid laptop speakers from Curry’s, to serve as cruel and vicious

Sign up or go underground in the summer of ’81.

18 February, 201110 May, 2017 Record, Television 0

You’re young? Never got into the Australian mainstream in the ’80s when it was happening? Annoyed that most of Mushroom’s output is not available

The Campaign for Real Rock versus plastic instruments.

10 February, 20114 September, 2016 Games 0

Cry moar, n00b. Activision has cancelled the whole Guitar Hero franchise. Harmonix, creator of its main competitor Rock Band, was sold off, and MTV

If we bolt the barn door well enough, a horse is bound to show up.

2 February, 2011 mp3 0

Android phones are hugely popular, and now the most popular smartphone in the world. Google would love a music store for Android to compete