David Gerard

B.E.F.: Music For Stowaways (1981).

7 February, 20237 February, 2023 Pop, Record 0

A fun listen if you know who Marsh and Ware are, and it gives you a good idea of how they were thinking.

Capsule: Metro Pulse (2022).

3 February, 20233 February, 2023 Audio, Dance, Record 1

Yasutaka Nakata‘s much-anticipated synthwave masterpiece.

Almost nobody cares what’s in the Top 10 any more.

14 January, 202314 January, 2023 Industry, Pop 3

You’ve never heard of current pop stars because they aren’t actually popular in mainstream culture.

Riffusion: we’ve replaced these musicians with an AI model.

16 December, 20227 February, 2023 Esoterica 0

Can’t wait for Spotify to offer streams of generated nonsense music. And see if the record companies can spot the source tracks it was trained on.

An opera singer shattering a glass, redux.

19 August, 2022 Audio 0

Your mission: document the resonant frequencies, and come up with an enormously popular banger of a tune that hits all of them.

An image carefully constructed to make musicians cry.

19 May, 202219 May, 2022 Classical, Musician 1

Musicians who have a casual attitude to the continued use of their eyes may want to look over this advertising image and see if they can spot a single thing right about it.

Records: P.H.O.B.O.S. (2021), The Birthday Massacre (2022).

23 March, 202223 March, 2022 Goth, Industrial, Record 0

Is this thing on? Have a couple of records.

Five slabs of listening from 2021.

20 December, 202114 November, 2022 Classical, Dance, Record, Rock, Writing 0

Two are actually from this year!

Records: Rhys Fulber, Poppy (2021).

2 November, 20214 November, 2021 Industrial, Pop, Record, Rock 0

Old industrial musician from way back makes a new album during lockdown; android pop star turns grunge rocker.

Arkady Rose: Nocturne (2021).

1 November, 202113 November, 2021 Classical, Record, Rocknerd 0

It’s blatant advertising time now, with the new CD from Arkady Rose of this parish just released today!

B-Side #14, early 1986: Wet Taxis, Porcelain Bus, Feedtime, Ups & Downs, Mick Harvey/Bad Seeds, John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong.

12 October, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

This is the last of the B-Side for the moment. I have a few scraps of other stuff to put up …

B-Side #13, December 1985: Deniz Tek, Ku Klux Frankenstein, Ed Kuepper/Laughing Clowns, Huxton Creepers, X, Happy Hate Me Nots, Beach Nuts, Louis Tillett, Itchy Rat

7 October, 20217 October, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

And a four-page cartoon in the middle.

Ministry: Moral Hygiene (2021).

5 October, 20215 October, 2021 Industrial, Record 0

Frankly, I’m most surprised Al Jourgensen is still alive. Good luck to him.

Twitter roundup.

4 October, 2021 Links 0

I’ve had these long enough, now you can have them too and I can close some tabs.

Robert Brokenmouth: Nick Cave: The Birthday Party and Other Epic Adventures (1996).

16 September, 202114 December, 2021 Post-Punk, Rock, Writing 0

In fairness, as the big bloke with the long hair and the leather jacket, if I were the police I’d have stopped me.

B-Side #12, late 1985: Scientists, The Eastern Dark, The Stems, Deniz Tek, Behind The Magnolia Curtain, Mark Ferrie, Reactor Records.

10 September, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

More procrastination on other things!

B-Side #11, June 1985: Tex Perkins, The Shindiggers, Decline of the Reptiles, Eugene Chadbourne, 21 Faces, The Celibate Rifles, Harem Scarem.

5 September, 20216 September, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

I basically commend all of this coverage.

21 Faces: Red Hearts (1985).

3 September, 20217 September, 2021 Indie, Pop, Record 1

Well, this is an obscurity I never expected to hear online.

B-Side #10, April 1985: James Baker Experience, Triffids, Lipstick Killers, Saints, Tactics, New York garage psych roundup.

1 September, 20211 September, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

Remember when you could get this sort of goodness for a dollar?

B-Side 4½, June–July 1984: Celibate Rifles, True West, J.F.K. and the Cuban Crisis, Clinton Walker on The Next Thing

31 August, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

B-Side was the Australian indie rock fanzine of the time. Just slabs of text about good bands and records. I straight-up lifted its format for Party Fears.