iTunes and streaming in general. Not one, but two cases. The problem is that (a) ID3 is crappy (b) particularly for classical (c) and
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Month: July 2015
Film links. KUNG FURY!
How to make Zardoz make sense, automated iPhone music video making, geolocking, racism and Kung Fury.
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The silver age of music: the Midas plague. How do you keep up?
“Will I buy something? Pretty much not. If I see what I really want, I’ll buy the CD, or if I feel guilty, but physical records or even the CD things are just a nuisance. More and more things and piles of things, and guilt versus things, not having the things wins.”
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Blacklisters: Adult (2015).
Early 1990s grunge, reproduced with 100% authenticity. Really, I felt like I was a 26-year-old student/bum again, smoking Lucky Strikes on a front porch in Perth, wondering if I too would ever find some way to hit it big with Generation X.
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Industrial estate.
I am doing the musical thing at last, despite literally being unable to sing or play (‘cos that observably never stopped anyone else). Two
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Putting the record industry on Bitcoin: Why this won’t work.
Bloomberg has put up a breathless piece of hype based on a report from the most speculative unit of the Berklee College of Music, suggesting that doing it all on THE BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN will shower money on all. Plus point: it is indeed from Berklee. Minus points: it’s made of squirrels and crack.
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The James L. “Rusty” Hevelin Collection of fanzines (the SF sort).
Of course, the first zines were science fiction zines, and they sprung up in the 1930s just about as soon as mimeographs were physically
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