This purports to be the story of the last twenty years of the record industry, told by one of the kids who collected MP3s in his college dorm just before Napster. It isn’t the story of the MP3 revolution, but it is some stories, only one of which is seriously important to the claim in the title. But the details mostly aren’t wrong.
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A site for multi-disc reissues, a new musicians’ forum, DRM still doesn’t work, exclusive deals don’t work.
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Post-punk rock bands that aren’t quite g*th but are certainly leaning in that direction.
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The Beatles’ Live At The Hollywood Bowl recovered, Prince Buster obituary, Freddie Mercury aged 12, Nietzsche the composer.
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Every field has its standard ways to fuck up.
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Post-hardcore indie rock, punk pop, power punk pop and jangle punk.
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Pel Mel were an Australian post-punk indie-pop band who formed in Newcastle in 1979 and split in 1984. Like so many old post-punk bands, they’ve reformed in recent years, and have a collection and a live album out soon.
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Secrets of the stars!
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Post-punk via yéyé, shoegaze and new wave revival.
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The thing that really struck me about Hugo vote-stackers the Sad Puppies was founder Brad Torgersen’s lament that he could no longer tell from the cover of a science fiction novel what it was about.
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Electronic indie delights, with guitar.
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Möss does with synthesizers on it something like what the Church did with guitars at their best. Interview with Cody George.
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It’s heartwarming how keen all these “blockchain” people are to helpfully intermediate between you, the artist, and the prospect of money.
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In 2005, talking about the 1980s and playing the songs on two acoustics.
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Ambitious but endearing synthpop, catchy new wave pop and authentically recreated mid-’80s UK indie rock.
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The New York Times offers a nice writeup of your friend and mine, Bandcamp. Describing how it works and a bit of the story of the company. We talk to quite pleased musicians also.
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It’s been a good weekend in the Bandcamp salt mines. Here’s some more: demo synthpop, early ’80s-style indie, trollclash and a young pop talent.
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Atmospheric dream-pop, indie pop and soulful R&B.
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Online streaming, ’70s music technology and ’90s record shops.
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Today I got an email from a Bitcoiner offering a mutually beneficial business proposition! He wanted me to add a “text link” to a post (neither text nor link included in proposal) for a whole FORTY DOLLARS. That’s as many as four tens, you know!
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Witch House is a made-up genre that became real. It was invented as an in-joke and now goth DJs claim they play “witch house”. Perhaps the secret ingredient is the gr▲†u‡†Øu§ Un‡cØd3.
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Shouty electropunk, indie pop and cinematic folk.
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Well, this is a useful thing. Somewhat useful, anyway — the actual database is long lost, so porting the articles to WordPress involves cut’n’paste and fix the dates by hand. Yes, including the comments. So don’t expect anything like the lot. Any particular favourites you think should be ported, let me know.
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Industrial-tangential trance, cinematic pop and vocal synthpop from Russian label SkyQode.
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82-year-old retired lawyer Takeo Morita buys his own utility pole, with transformer, for cleaner electricity and perfect sound forever.
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Fine American, German and French post-punk sounds. With video!
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SingularDTV is an exciting new blockchain-based entertainment industry boondoggle. It’s part DRM snake oil marketing, part pseudo-Bitcoin scam and part sincere Singularitarian weirdness. You should not fall for it.
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No time for a proper post this evening, so have an amusing video.
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Futurepop, impassioned grunge and some new wave power pop. All with good tunes and a beat.
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Dr Dre and Apple’s new headphone jack, reminiscences on Alan Vega (and Bruce Springsteen) and clickbait for aging record nerds.
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