March 2014 – Rocknerd

New Spotify stratagem: get your fans to stream your silence.

19 March, 201428 April, 2017 mp3 2

Mashing together public domain audio to get cash out of Spotify is too much like work. Vulfpeck, a funk band from Ann Arbor, have

18 March, 201429 November, 2016 Writing 0

Courtesy Mike Bonsall on the jgb list. “It took months to painstakingly analyse 7,000 answers JG Ballard made in over 300 interviews and turn

17 March, 20144 December, 2016 Rocknerd 0

We’ve previously sent out email via the Subscribe2 plugin, but it keeps ending up in spam filters. The Jetpack plugin (turn your blog into

16 March, 20146 May, 2017 Film, Industrial 0

Now this is an interesting thing. Amélie Ravalec and Travis Collins (the one from RTR) track down the conceptual origins of 1970s and 1980s

14 March, 20146 May, 2017 Esoterica, Writing 0

Why do we listen to our favourite music over and over again? Because repeated sounds work magic in our brains. Do anything repeatedly and

12 March, 201429 March, 2017 Industrial, Musician, Prog 0

Miller is not quite comfortable with the term “Krautrock”, and neither am I. But this is a delight for any decent record nerd, and

10 March, 20147 May, 2017 Audio, mp3 4

Neil Young has unveiled at SXSW a new $400 pocket music player that only plays one specific file type, encoded at “high resolution”. The