As the year comes to an end there is the realisation that a half-complete text file has been languishing for a triple compilation released in October 2015. What a difference a day makes to being “somewhat late” to being “so old it’s a retrospective”.
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How to read sheet music, a chord progression arpeggiator and George Michael versus Morrissey and Tony Blackburn.
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The fine art of getting your music to paying listeners as of late 2016.
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Goth rock, electronic pop and witch house.
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Yo ho ho and three megabytes of hot RAM.
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Side-Line indulges a straight-up Nazi, Nielsen buys Gracenote metadata, random Burroughs readings from The Naked Lunch.
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“Yup, all $9.24 from monetization is going towards the wedding. There will be ice sculptures.”
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Then give ’em all the turkey and tell ’em to get stuffed.
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WATER LEVEL (that everyone hates)
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Niland are an “AI startup” who sell a search and recommendation engine for music companies. They have a demo for you to play with: paste in a track from SoundCloud and see what it makes of it.
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Essays on aesthetics.
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Prenda Law are finally arrested, Internet advertising is a scam at all levels (and you can help!) and careful when posting.
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A new controller, a new squeezebox and something to design a wind instrument in any shape you can think of.
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BY THE CORROSIVE SPERM OF BAAL I SHALL RIP THY INTESTINES BODILY FROM THY CORPULENT BOURGEOISIE ABDOMEN WITH MY OWN CLAWS AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.
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Electroclash witch house, electric prog and industrial synthpop.
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The important thing is to wear a fetching Skullcandy hat like the one up there.
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3D technology has been the next big thing for only the last sixty years. It offers amazing improvements over ordinary moving images: darkness, muddier colours, blurriness, headaches from watching for more than twenty minutes and slower action sequences so the viewer doesn’t bring up their last meal.
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A Christmas choir, Mick Harvey, Ken Russell and apposite commentary.
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News from the world of “you thought you bought the thing we sold you? Think again, pirate scum!“
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Shoegazy post-punk, synth pop and futurepop.
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Spotify rejects SoundCloud again, ten 808 greats, the Legendary Pink Dots and you awful millennials.
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Two Wire live performances, because they’re good for you.
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How much money one musician actually makes striking out as an independent, the Pakistani music industry, responding to recruiters and Ricardo Autobahn and Spray.
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Synth-based indie pop, with some stomping jangle too.
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Have your retro communism techno, enlightening the unwilling, archive your damn tapes, this is not your father’s Earache.
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Taut indie guitar rock, sparse but weighty; machine music by a guitar band with the proper relentlessness.
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Rocknerd is now served over SSL. Please try https://rocknerd.co.uk/ on all your gadgets and let me know of any problems. Here’s the technical detail of how I applied this to WordPress.
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sp00py theremin and keyboard, found sound loop atmospheric pop and some industrial bleep.
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The not-quite original awning from CBGB for auction; the story of Ableton Live; really, a cucumber organ.
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A start on the accumulated backlog. Today is synthpop day!
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