Music services that aren’t iTunes need to be better to compete. Google is politely negotiating streaming. Amazon, on the other hand, has decided to
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Month: March 2011
Leftfield, Melbourne, March 18, 2011
The early 1990s were a depressing time, and even more so in Victoria, Australia. The Gorbachev revolution, which successfully led to the unravelling of
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Hawkwind, Billboard, Melbourne March 12, 2011
As they announced, these are the warriors on the edge of space and time. Now in their forty-second year of performance and correlating with
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One soul less on your fiery list.
Paul Harding emails to tell of his blog Perthmusic (and earlier version), a pile of unavailable CDs, records and tapes from no-longer-gigging bands of
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A requiem for the Luminaire.
I just returned from the last of many gigs I saw at the Luminaire, and indeed, the last ever gig there. The bands playing
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Quite possibly the most horrible record of 2011.
George Michael doing a laid back MOR version of “True Faith” by New Order. Through a vocoder. While wrapped around a lamp post.
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Why movies right now suck more than music.
The Internet has set off a desperately-needed nuclear viral cancer bomb under the music industry. The majors are going down the tubes, the distribution
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The hope of Audacity.
People seem insufficiently aware of Audacity, the open-source sound recording and editing program. This is the four-track everyone desperately wanted twenty years ago. If
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