April 2017 – Rocknerd

There’s drum machines, then there’s a machine drummer.

30 April, 201730 April, 2017 Musician 0

Our robot friends move into the acoustic version too.

Links: Audible now DRM-free, the Great Vinyl Scam, no pirate website blocks in Mexico.

29 April, 201711 November, 2018 Links, Writing, Your rights 0

It’s not like people want the (literal) tons of old editions of these records on vinyl.

The Glass Eyes: Prime Record (2016); The Oceans Over There (2017).

28 April, 201728 April, 2017 Record, Rock 0

Folky songwriter guitar rock that’s excessively fond of Neil Young and knows it.

Why Spotify wants some Blockchain; how music industry Blockchain dreams work.

27 April, 20179 May, 2018 Industry, mp3, Opinion 6

A detailed examination of why music industry Blockchain (capital B) dreams are not going to work out.

Followups: Free money from YouTube, windowing and piracy, totally not Pono.

25 April, 201728 April, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, mp3 0

Ongoing sagas that remain perennial bad pennies of stupid.

Links: uTorrent, bogus RightsCorp DMCA notices, International 8-Track Day.

23 April, 201724 April, 2017 Audio, mp3, Rocknerd, Your rights 0

Ignoring the previous National 8-Track Day, of course.

Patti Smith’s last Australian gig, Festival Hall, Melbourne, 20 April 2017.

21 April, 201721 April, 2017 Live, Punk 2

Patti Smith is giving up long haul touring on medical advice. But at Festival Hall last night, which she called a “shitty little club” for all the right reasons, Smith looked anything but frail.

Musical user interfaces, copyright companies being themselves, the worst of Rolling Stone.

16 April, 201716 April, 2017 Links, Musician, Writing, Your rights 0

You need to see the ideas for music software interfaces.

Crimson Boy: Street Gods and Neon Dogs (2017).

14 April, 2017 Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Perth ’80s industrial synthpop duo, who have returned with an album at last.

Links: Portuguese DRM bypass law, majors and streaming money, personal desktop torrent search.

11 April, 201711 April, 2017 Industry, Links, mp3, Your rights 0

Some fun with DRM, BitTorrent and the legal streaming money never reaching the artists anyway.

Vortex zine #2 is up.

9 April, 2017 Indie, Writing 0

From the bowels of time, Vortex, Perth, December 1986.

Reviews: Cherry Heaven, Rainboy (2017).

7 April, 20177 April, 2017 Dance, Indie, Record 0

A couple of atmospheric pop collections.

Links: A dumped Steinway, Kim Dotcom’s terrible album, early TR-808 hits, the history of disco.

6 April, 201718 May, 2017 Dance, Links, Musician 0

“There was lots and lots of good music that was actually made but it never saw the light of day because it wasn’t Kim’s taste. His taste is what you can hear on that fucking atrocious album that actually got released.”