David Gerard

Industry links: Facebook, video, Cogent Pirate Bay block, CMJ charts dead, DistroKid retrospective.

16 February, 2017 Industry, Links, Your rights 0

The usual cavalcade of brilliance and competence.

Reviews: Artefact, Ritual Howls, La Orden (2016, 2017).

15 February, 201715 February, 2017 Goth, Post-Punk, Punk, Record, Rock 0

Guitar post-punk in black and grey.

Quando Quango: Pigs and Battleships (1985).

14 February, 20171 May, 2017 Dance, Post-Punk, Record 0

A vastly underappreciated post-punk album of the female and funky variety, by a band substantially responsible for what became acid house as we know it.

Internet backbone Cogent blocks Pirate Bay; network admins concerned by fallout.

12 February, 201716 February, 2017 mp3, Your rights 0

Cogent has blocked the Pirate Bay, in a particularly hamfisted manner prone to collateral damage.

The SF Disco Preservation Society: taped San Francisco club mixes from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.

10 February, 201711 February, 2017 Dance 4

This, this is awesomeness. Jim Hopkins is doing God’s work here.

Reviews: Venus + Mars, Carla dal Forno, The Black Veils (2016, 2017).

9 February, 20179 February, 2017 Esoterica, Indie, Pop, Post-Punk, Punk, Record 0

Vaporwave, ethereal post-punk pop and jangly punk-pop.

Links: Marquee Moon, CD rot, how to be a better producer, rockin’ nuns.

8 February, 20178 February, 2017 Audio, Esoterica, Links, Musician, Punk 2

Not every nun needs a Synthi.

Reviews: Quimper, Chrysta Bell and David Lynch, Black Tape for a Blue Girl (2016, 2017).

7 February, 201712 February, 2017 Esoterica, Goth, Indie, Pop, Record 0

Yes, that David Lynch. He does music too.

Links: pop star tech gurus, Denuvo hacks itself, don’t play DRMed content in a Tor browser.

6 February, 20177 February, 2017 Games, Rocknerd, Your rights 0

And some notes on yesterday’s ridiculously popular post.

Whatever happened to Winamp? (which you can still download, by the way)

5 February, 20173 May, 2017 Audio, mp3, Opinion 28

Fifteen to twenty years ago, Winamp was the MP3 player that everyone used. It was the first MP3 player not to suck: playlists, shuffle, convenience. And you can still download the last version.

Essays by Post(Graduate)Punk: Crass, Sisters of Mercy, Psychic TV.

4 February, 201723 March, 2022 Goth, Industrial, Post-Punk, Punk, Writing 0

Essays, pointers and rambling opinionation on UK punk and post-punk.

Bandcamp is melting under the strain. But keep buying stuff!

3 February, 20174 February, 2017 Record 0

The ACLU fundraiser is just a bit popular. But keep buying to GIT CHOR NAZI SCALPS LUVVERLY NAZI SCALPS AT BANDCAMP

Post-punk in black: Posh Lost, Masquerade, 1919 (2016).

3 February, 20173 February, 2017 Goth, Post-Punk, Record 0

New style, old style and old returned.

Links: Buy from Bandcamp on Friday, why Hollywood is(n’t) doomed, US pirate warning scheme fails.

2 February, 20173 February, 2017 Film, Links, Musician, Your rights 0

GREAT DEALS ON NAZI SCALPS AT BANDCAMP, ONE DAY ONLY

Electro pop: Cyborgdrive, Lebanon Hanover , Katja von Kassel (2016, 2017).

1 February, 20171 February, 2017 Dance, Goth, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

The sounds, the rhythm and the pop structure. Three good finds today.

Reviews: Mehdi-T, Mlale (2017).

31 January, 2017 Dance, Indie, Record 1

The accessible and the inaccessible.

Links: Facebook goes music industry, Denuvo DRM cracked in record time, a BitTorrent YouTube, women and jazz.

30 January, 201730 January, 2017 Games, Industry, Jazz, Links, mp3 0

assorted bile and horror

John Cale: Music For A New Society/M:FANS (1982, 2016).

28 January, 201712 April, 2017 Record, Rock 0

Music For A New Society was written and recorded over a few weeks in 1982. Cale basically pulled out handfuls of his guts and shoved them into the piano and the vocal mic as hard as he could. It’s a perfectly captured moment, and one of the best things Cale ever did.

The 2016 rerecording is … completely different.