You just need a thick carrot, a mouthpiece, an electric drill, a potato peeler and a funnel. Then, in five minutes, you can do this …
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You just need a thick carrot, a mouthpiece, an electric drill, a potato peeler and a funnel. Then, in five minutes, you can do this …
Read MoreSpray are a couple of old goths doing semi-novelty synthpop straight out of The Manual. They do a brilliant job of it and you should listen to everything they have ever recorded.
Read More’90s-style sample-ridden indie dance rock, catchy amateur punkish indie pop, melodic pop songs in an indie band with synths, American Britpop.
Read MoreThe above being a quote from Graham Clark, one of the literary assessors in question. He told me the story years ago (and I keep retelling it), but I finally found a decent writeup of this, from a 1994 interview with Iain (M.) Banks …
Read MoreIt’s the happening thing. Doesn’t appear to be everything they’ve ever released, but it’s a pretty fair chunk of it for you to try before you buy and give them your money.
Read MoreA couple from the poppier end, on Dependent.
Read MoreThe last video recorder, 3D again, why men just aren’t funny.
Read MoreConsumer markets, a nice Patricia Morrison interview and the 1938 Novachord.
Read MoreAfter yesterday’s wonder of the pop video maker’s art, we have a couple more. Here’s Russian rap act Little Big, whose dick is very very big.
Read MoreEstonian rap. The genre is “trap-pop”, apparently. The video itself is probably not worksafe, though technically within YouTube rules.
Read MoreStrap On Halo are a goth rock band from the goth scene. This is unfortunate, insofar as not even current goths are interested in current goth music — it’s a subculture of new clothes and old music.
Read MoreDepeche Modeish EBM, sp00ky goth EBM, instrumental EBM.
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Read MoreWhy does the history of punk rock seem so relentlessly white and male, when that’s nothing like how it happened? Well, you know why. And so does Viv Albertine of the Slits.
Read MoreAveraging one studio album every three years, the classic math rockers, 65daysofstatic are right on time with their latest release, the official soundtrack to the video game No Man’s Sky.
Read MoreFloaty EBM, instrumental EBM, industrial punk.
Read MoreRocknerd uses Kubrick, the most tediously basic WordPress theme that was all the rage in 2008. It’s possible we could do with an update.
So! I would welcome your valued suggestions on how to make the site look more like an interesting and perspicacious music magazine. Free themes by preference, we’re not big on budget resources around here …
Read MoreYouTube, record company accounting, Tidal.
Read MoreTwo industrial, one post-punk, one synthpop, one indiest indie.
Read MoreI named my old fanzine Party Fears after the hit single by the Associates, so I’ve always had a soft spot for them.
Read MoreRingo Starr, Frank Zappa and Record Store Day evaluated.
Read MoreThe Beach Boys’ worst record, the disco record that beats it, and when disco got good again with Jimmy Cauty and the KLF.
Read MoreWill York, in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, helpfully explains for us the cookie monster vocal in death metal.
Read MoreSee that box at the right of the page saying “Subscribe to Rocknerd via email”? It does what it says. Sign up and you’ll never miss a post. Good, huh.
Read MoreThe new release pile on Bandcamp is more work than it looks.
Read MoreAustralian ‘80s indie rock band the Arctic Circles never made a huge impact and remain mired in obscurity, but their two records (the single “Angel” in 1985, the mini-LP Time in 1987 featuring “Wasp”) were well-received, did okay on an indie level and you couldn’t get away from them on public radio. The style is the ‘60s garage punk stuff popular in Australia at the time. Still sounds pretty fresh in 2016.
Read MoreBeware the dangers of trance and the cult of the DJ. Don’t fall for … the trance cracker. An informative tract that you can give your friends copies of!
Read MoreThis is Alixandrea Corvyn, of Last July and Rhombus and various previous bands. It’s a cover of “White Rabbit”, but with this grasp of imagery she’s on the right track. This video is just made to be cut up into stills and GIFs and reassembled into viral Tumblr posts.
Read MoreA wonderful 2010 documentary from BBC Four, covering the late ’70s synthesizer bands. Interviews with the (original) Human League, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres, Vince Clarke, Gary Numan, New Order and the Pet Shop Boys.
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