2013 – Page 2 – Rocknerd

Reflections on Rowland S. Howard.

3 July, 20136 May, 2017 Post-Punk 0

Reflections on Rowland from Swamplandzine. I was one of those people going to every Rowland Howard gig I could in Melbourne in the late

Go read Equalizer.

21 June, 20136 May, 2017 Media 0

I have no snappy phrase here, you should just go read shiny new music site Equalizer. Hat-tip to Andrew Bulhak, who brought it to

The Twinkle Variations.

23 May, 20136 May, 2017 Esoterica 0

Scott Bradlee takes you through the history of recorded music, as expressed via “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”.

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, 11 May 2013

19 May, 20136 May, 2017 Live 0

In my much younger days, like many others with simultaneous libertarian and socialist convictions, a gravitation towards the political side of punk rock had

Midge Ure, Melbourne, 19 April 2013.

22 April, 201329 March, 2017 Live, Pop 0

Midge Ure is a musician who shouldn’t require much of an introduction. He’s travelled from from the Rich Kids in the 1970s, to Visage,

A Good Friday tale of crucifixion and resurrection. Yes, it’s Tupac Shakur.

29 March, 20136 May, 2017 R'n'B 0

Over on the RationalWiki blog, I’ve got a rundown of Tupac Shakur conspiracy theories. Ironic-as-Alanis given that Shakur hated stupid conspiracy bullshit, and thought

Monty explains how digitising signals actually works.

3 March, 201318 December, 2016 Audio 4

As a followup to his detailed explanation of why 24/192 downloads are complete and utter snake oil, Chris “Monty” Montgomery of Xiph.org has produced

Perfect sound forever! Probably.

21 February, 20136 May, 2017 Audio 3

I’m trying to get a skeptical blog going, in the name of RationalWiki. Yesterday and today I have posted rants about audiophiles: part 1

Memetic archaeology and Nickelback.

16 February, 20131 December, 2016 Media 0

Where did hating Nickelback as a meme come from?

Factory Benelux is alive and well.

17 January, 201329 March, 2017 Post-Punk 0

Old post-punks, raise your walkers in the air and cheer! James Nice of LTM has revived the Factory Benelux label for the ongoing LTM

An evil mob princess with really good hair.

14 January, 20136 May, 2017 Pop 0

Meet Gulnara Karimova, daughter of Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov, attempting to make a name for herself as aspiring pop diva Googoosha. Ex-Soviet dictatorships and

A Lord Horror timeline.

3 January, 201331 March, 2017 Esoterica, Post-Punk 0

Well, that was certainly a thing. I was a teenage Joy Division/New Order obsessive, and for many years I’ve found covers of them inherently