“It’s all folk music, anyway.” — Lester Bangs
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“It’s all folk music, anyway.” — Lester Bangs
Read MoreHave some more links, this time with a video.
Read MoreJon Langford’s time as a part-time g*th, J. G. Ballard’s house is for sale again and your headphones can be used to spy on you.
Read MoreThere’s still the sound of roads not taken since; something tantalisingly not quite right about it. (Your mileage may vary.)
Read MoreI have finished the raw first draft of the Bitcoin/blockchain book. Current word count 30,410 (or 35,546 if you include the footnotes). This was supposed to be a 15,000 word rant before lunchtime …
Read MoreThe sound with the Pearl becomes lighter and has less impact and detail compared to the Supra. Stereo image shrinks, but more obvious is a reduction in detail. Changing to Cinnamon with only one switch in my network produces a surprising result.
Read MoreRoger Shepherd, founder of Flying Nun Records, is now embarking upon a reissue programme. And has written an autobiography.
Read MoreSelections from the early post-punk record collection. A Certain Ratio, C Cat Trance, Crispy Ambulance, Magazine, Section 25, Cabaret Voltaire. The aesthetic.
Read MoreA web-based acid house creator, some Web Audio sound fonts, a light-based Arduino project and a plea to keep up your guitar playing.
Read MoreToday, some pop and some electroclash.
Read More’90s style industrial, early ’70s style songwriting, two dance non-reviews.
Read MoreThere’s a lot to be said in favour of massive copyright violation in the interests of cultural preservation, but “fixed targets are stable and sustainable in a world including the record companies” is not any of it.
Read More“Hard Left” remains chilling and apposite. The fascists and quasi-fascists haven’t changed in thirty years.
Read MoreAudio snake oil, London still the centre of the universe, Summer in Paradise.
Read MoreDouban.com, a movie about a drum machine, software that grabs your microphone.
Read Moreaestheticblogging basically taught me to have feelings, that werent anger.
Read MoreBut love, like life, will always stay.
Read MoreIt’s been a busy day working on the book. So here’s some relaxing early ’80s Crépuscule industrial.
Read MoreFifty year old records, fifty year old conspiracy theories, one hundred and thirty-three twenty and an actually non-stupid music industry report.
Read MoreSome super-accessible pop, some more experimentally-leaning synthpop and more Digital Logic vaporwave.
Read MoreA Mexican EBM-industrial synthpop artist with his album from earlier this year and his new single.
Read MoreA beautiful and apposite William S. Burroughs reading, and some classic rock faff.
Read MoreAt last, a followup on the legendary AOpen AX4B-533 Tube computer motherboard from 2002, and your options for cheap glow-in-the-dark amplification in 2016.
Read MoreEBM and synthpop, plus guitar-based post-punk revival.
Read MoreThe blockchain book I’m writing; a couple of short excerpts from the music section I drafted about half of today.
Read MoreExploring new frontiers in obsolete technology, why Brexit will affect UK music precisely how you think it would, and the state of Neil Young’s Pono.
Read MoreA new Pop Group album (and it’s good!), the last Birthday Party record, the truth about Plastic Bertrand and a book about Düsseldorf.
Read MoreThe Internet Archive has thirty gigabytes of cassettes from the ’80s for your delight and horror, from the collection of CKLN-FM host Myke Dyer. The collection was first put on line in 2009 and was made available on archive.org late last year.
Read MoreDeath in Rome do neofolk covers of pop. And what’s neofolk? Well.
Read MoreIt was pure serendipity that I found myself on the other side of the planet from my usual home at the same time that 65daysofstatic graced Barcelona to promote their new soundtrack album, No Man’s Sky. The venue, Razzmatazz, has a good reputation and deservedly so. It’s rough and ready, but sensibly designed allowing for generous audio and viewing spaces, good ventilation, and even reasonable drink prices.
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