How a working-class couple amassed a literally priceless art collection. “They were artists, and the collection was their work of art.” If only I
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How a working-class couple amassed a literally priceless art collection. “They were artists, and the collection was their work of art.” If only I
Read MoreThat is all. Available on Bandcamp.
Read MoreThere’s a lotta David Lowerys out there.
Read MoreMichael Robertson, original founder of mp3.com, has come up with an interesting new toy: the world’s first real-time radio search engine. It takes the
Read MoreAnd if her 3D-printed records made of petrochemicals are too icky and modern, Amanda Ghassaei has followed up with a wooden record. Cut with
Read MoreThe hit ramble Culture is not about aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law is now available in Polish, translated by Kuba Danecki,
Read MoreHat-tip Lawrence Miles. “I still prefer to remember him this way.” From “Modern Dance” from Ecstasy.
Read MoreIn the olden days, you needed to bribe DJs or just buy a bootload of copies of your record yourself. These days, you can
Read MoreWhen presented with a new musical technology, the first question that occurs to a certain sort of mind is “what happens if I press
Read MoreThis video (warning: strobe lighting and cuts) is circulating in social media today tagged “what the fuck did I just watch?” It’s Estonian metal
Read MoreThomson Package Holidays have a blog in which they attempted to tell people about music. Despite having perpetuated the stuff myself, I find myself
Read MoreIs the universal refrain of those hearing that Twitter is killing its music app. I live on Twitter and I hadn’t heard of this
Read MoreNothing to do with music, but this review of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition pushed my Ballard buttons. “If
Read MoreRemember Res Rocket Surfer and Google Jam? This one is a new thing to collaborate with people over the Internet. (If you sell your
Read MoreIf you want to get your stuff onto the chart stores (iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and Google), you can spend a pile of cash (around $40/album) with TuneCore or CDBaby — or rather less cash ($20/year unlimited) with DistroKid. Endorsed by the founders of TuneCore and CDBaby, no less (the latter of whom just uploaded everything he’s ever recorded through DistroKid).
Read MoreFrom NPR: So here’s Beethoven’s 9th played on 167 theremins built inside Russian dolls. Oh, and wait for the boogie, about 1:20. HT Liam
Read MoreSo Rocknerd’s latest article is a hit. Slashdot got it a few thousand hits, which my small but clever setup based on WP-Super-Cache coped
Read MoreRecord companies complain the Internet will destroy music. Musicians complain that they can’t make a living any more. The unsympathetic public, feeling the squeeze themselves, tell them to get a proper job.
The problem isn’t piracy — it’s competition.
Read MoreJohn Doran of The Quietus reminsces about five years of running the site. “I drank so much coffee I felt like I could control
Read MoreThe whiny emo brat subculture seems to have gotten into Nirvana big time. I cured the older teen of playing In Utero all day
Read MoreA small amount of fun this week writing up obscurities for Wikipedia: Operation Twilight (UK branch of Les Disques du Crépuscule) and Factory Benelux
Read MoreThe Quietus’ first interview with a Professor of Sociology of Work. We spend 40-45 hours at work a week, but if you look at
Read MoreDaily Mash: “THE unlimited availability of free music means that an album will not change how you see the world for more than a
Read MoreThere is a Manual for film that sets out precisely what is to happen as closely as The Manual did for pop music. But
Read MoreMust be movie week at Rocknerd. So I was reminded of The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990), a thoroughly enjoyable piece of cheese starring
Read MoreRussell Crowe wanted a followup to Gladiator. So, of course, he called Nick Cave. ‘Cos that’s obviously the first thing you do.
Read MoreA look into Asylum, assembly-line producers of such instant classics as 2-Headed Shark Attack. This century, the market for B-movies is Netflix and the
Read MoreI dug through archive.org again and dredged up some more prime Rocknerd. TISM, the crippled CD database (remember when music came on CDs? Hah!),
Read MoreSomeone outside Australia notices Dogs In Space, specifically Anthony Nield at the Quietus. And of course, you can get the soundtrack album for less
Read MoreThe redoubtable Vi Hart produces a brilliant half-hour video on how Schoenberg‘s twelve-tone technique works, and a few examples that demonstrate just where half the background music of the twentieth century came from. Includes discourses on the nature of art, the nature of musical shapes and the reprehensibility of present copyright laws.
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