October 2013 – Rocknerd

Do-it-yourself payola on Spotify.

31 October, 20133 January, 2017 Industry, mp3 0

In the olden days, you needed to bribe DJs or just buy a bootload of copies of your record yourself. These days, you can

Black MIDI is not as cool as it sounds, but is still pretty cool.

30 October, 20137 January, 2017 Esoterica 0

When presented with a new musical technology, the first question that occurs to a certain sort of mind is “what happens if I press

Blagger’s guide: Winny Puhh.

26 October, 20137 January, 2017 Metal 0

This video (warning: strobe lighting and cuts) is circulating in social media today tagged “what the fuck did I just watch?” It’s Estonian metal

A questionable timeline of the evolution of Western dance music.

21 October, 20137 January, 2017 Dance, Writing 0

Thomson Package Holidays have a blog in which they attempted to tell people about music. Despite having perpetuated the stuff myself, I find myself

“Twitter had a music app?”

21 October, 20137 January, 2017 Industry 0

Is the universal refrain of those hearing that Twitter is killing its music app. I live on Twitter and I hadn’t heard of this

A review of the DSM-5 as a dystopian novel.

20 October, 20137 January, 2017 Writing 0

Nothing to do with music, but this review of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition pushed my Ballard buttons. “If

BandHub: The Internet recording studio.

9 October, 201310 September, 2017 Musician 49

Remember Res Rocket Surfer and Google Jam? This one is a new thing to collaborate with people over the Internet. (If you sell your

DistroKid to get your music into the chart stores.

9 October, 201320 October, 2016 Industry 2

If 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).