More copyright bogosity and some esoteric new wave.
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Month: June 2017
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: out July 24, pre-orders open!
My book is scheduled! Sign up to give me your money!
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Links: Declining guitar sales, I Feel Love, tinnitus.
And The Damn Book.
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Links: Closed Circuits compilation, Devo vs William S. Burroughs, Go-Betweens documentary.
More artistic pursuits today.
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Links: Spotify payola, cheap Apple Music, bogus Disney takedowns, music journalism pt 2.
It’s a much more dot-com new economy payola. The Uber of payola.
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Links: FACT using Grenfell Tower for marketing, notice-and-stay-down, perpetual copyright.
Apparently Kodi software is flammable. Who knew?
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Links: Music journalism still buggered, Alan Vega final album, Denuvo LOL.
More news during the tinnitus hiatus.
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Links: Jennifer Lynch photo archive, DMCA spambots, everyone hates blockchains, buzz buzz buzz.
Go send some money Jennifer Lynch’s way. Cultural preservation calls!
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Loewenhertz: Echtzeit; Unsichtbar; Irgendwann (2016, 2017).
’90s-style angsty German synthpop that fits right into industrial, of a genre with Wolfsheim, Beborn Beton and Silke Bischoff. Especially Wolfsheim.
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Links: FLAC on iOS, Allen Ravenstine of Pere Ubu, the cassette-compatible music player.
And a video from Marcelo Andrea (Expreso Maniquí).
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Reviews: Metal Disco, Barabbus (2017).
One that isn’t quite EBM and one that isn’t quite metal.
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Links: AIR Studios Montserrat, Carl Bernstein the pop critic, net neutrality for musicians.
The net neutrality article is particularly important.
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Links: Denuvo suck and are thieves, Andrew Hickey’s Beach Boys books, Jimmy Webb.
DRM bad, classic rock vastly better.
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Purple Fog Side: The Discord (2017).
A Russian band who call themselves goth and play trancy techno pop on an industrial label.
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Copyright trolls: Malibu media, Prenda, time-travellers, the MAFIAA and how to defend yourself.
Making mass legal extortion a less viable business.
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Ringo Starr is a dick.
“But thanks julian lennon for stopping me from becoming a supervillain hellbent on destroying the entire nation of britain for good.”
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